Head with the desk and the glayvin.

[e_juliana]

My darling mother has a birthday in the middle of this month. She is almost as obsessed with Slings & Arrows as I am, but doesn't keep up with media releases and whatnot. I successfully kept the release of the 1st season DVDs secret from her, and she found out purely by accident two days before I was to see her in NYC and present her with the DVDs, so she almost went out and got herself the DVDs.

The fact of the release of the 2nd season was known, but I was hoping that a) she wouldn't realize when they came out (October 24th) and b) she would realize that since it was within a month of her birthday, she shouldn't get herself such things. No such luck. Of course, I found out about this AFTER I had already given Amazon my money for the DVDs and gift wrapping and shipping.

She still is the most adorable thing ever. I emailed her with:

You'd think that THE WOMAN WHO IS HAVING HER BIRTHDAY SOON would know
not to get anything.

And she responded:

Well, okay, maybe I DREAMED about what might happen IF I had a chance to see
season two.  I currently do not have a copy in the house, and IF my
wonderful daughter was so wonderful to send such an incredible gift; one
that I would really treasure and take such delight in, then I would be the
luckiest mom in the known world.

Works for me!!

I guess I'm sending up See's Candy for her birthday.