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Four days into my 45th year...
Apr. 3rd, 2008 06:28 pmWhere to begin? Yesterday, when a local Catholic college contacted Jana about binding some books and such to present to the Pope? That was sort of a stunner all around. Not quite finalized yet but this is about as surreal as it gets.
Except for the day before yesterday, which was just as weird.
Apparently Canadian Customs and border security have decided that I'm a potential enemy of Canada (unfounded to the best of my knowledge). I had some quite unpleasant experiences that I have no intention of repeating unnecessarily so no more trips north for me for the foreseeable future. Which absolutely bites since I've enjoyed all 10 or so of my previous trips up there, with the big exception of parts of this one. :-((((
However the second we got back to Minneapolis (on time from Chicago even), unicorns leapt out of the woodwork and began to frolic with happy bluebirds and Disney princesses and other riffraff. A nice man gave me a train pass because I looked tired (actually still furious about the security incident earlier in the day, but who was I to argue?). We ran into the always charming Pamela Dean and her sweetie on the platform. We got home to find that I had received birthday cards from various folks, including Jana's parents and one of her brothers and his wife. This is where things gets seriously weird. In the 14 years + that we've been together, our relationship has not been, shall we say embraced, by her family. We passed the random wackiness stage years back but they stay in Utah and are practicing Mormons, I stay here and we occasionally grunt politely at each other. The previously mentioned brother and his wife have been swell and supportive and a couple of the others have come around to pleasantly neutral but that's about it.
But here, out of the blue, was an actual card from her mom thanking me very sweetly for my years of devotion to her daughter (and including a nice gift even). I'm still pretty stunned. Jana is very, very pleased about it, which I figure is the most important part. :-D
More on the good stuff about the trip next post. Must go feed now.
Except for the day before yesterday, which was just as weird.
Apparently Canadian Customs and border security have decided that I'm a potential enemy of Canada (unfounded to the best of my knowledge). I had some quite unpleasant experiences that I have no intention of repeating unnecessarily so no more trips north for me for the foreseeable future. Which absolutely bites since I've enjoyed all 10 or so of my previous trips up there, with the big exception of parts of this one. :-((((
However the second we got back to Minneapolis (on time from Chicago even), unicorns leapt out of the woodwork and began to frolic with happy bluebirds and Disney princesses and other riffraff. A nice man gave me a train pass because I looked tired (actually still furious about the security incident earlier in the day, but who was I to argue?). We ran into the always charming Pamela Dean and her sweetie on the platform. We got home to find that I had received birthday cards from various folks, including Jana's parents and one of her brothers and his wife. This is where things gets seriously weird. In the 14 years + that we've been together, our relationship has not been, shall we say embraced, by her family. We passed the random wackiness stage years back but they stay in Utah and are practicing Mormons, I stay here and we occasionally grunt politely at each other. The previously mentioned brother and his wife have been swell and supportive and a couple of the others have come around to pleasantly neutral but that's about it.
But here, out of the blue, was an actual card from her mom thanking me very sweetly for my years of devotion to her daughter (and including a nice gift even). I'm still pretty stunned. Jana is very, very pleased about it, which I figure is the most important part. :-D
More on the good stuff about the trip next post. Must go feed now.