2/1/2005 04:30:50 PM|||Britt|||Today is my wife's birthday and I actually remembered to buy her something and get flowers, food, and cakes. Yes, cakes. When you start getting old, you need to cover as many bases as possible.

We both recently saw Sideways and loved it. For those people who either don't like it or think it a mediocre movie, I ask, "What more do you want?" The range of emotion in that movie is incredible.

Anyway, I got sidetracked on Sideways because of the scene where he is visiting his mother the day before her birthday and is writing on the card (which he bought along with the flowers on the way to her house) as he walks up to the door.

That used to be the way I handled birthdays, if I remembered them at all. Now I'm out there buying gifts a full day in advance and writing on the card hours before she'll see it.

If you are young and without children, you have no excuses. You should be making your spouse, partner, lover a gourmet dinner and creating artsy cards filled with your own words. That's what I used to do, but now I have excuses.
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