Synthetic Charm

Current Status

Me: [Reading a licence plate] D..three…Adman?

SPMM: Dead Man.

Me: Oh!

SPMM: LEET speak is not your forte.

GPOYW - It’s windy out edition!

Doing lunch right.

Steak with mushrooms roasted in balsamic, thyme and garlic.
Heirloom tomato bocconcini salad
Couscous with Parmesan and edamame.

All the ice cream! All of it!

With knowledgesponge and thedappertortoise.

GPOYW - Stealing Parents Vacuum Edition.

Just kidding, I had permission. I am not that bad ass.

23 degrees! This is how we do April right! (That’s 73 for you American types)

Let’s all ignore the declining temps and chance of rain for later in the week.

Like a Boss - The Lonely Island

This inappropriate song offering provided by successful bid for Assistant Manager position!

My plate of brownie mush because I refuse to let the pan cool before I dish up.

I am the one they call 24.

For those of you who know corvidae30 , knowledgesponge and the subtle art of “maths”, it won’t come as a surprise that I was born out of wedlock.

SCANDALOUS!…but not really.

My parents were married 4 1/2 years after I was born. Not immediately out of obligation, but after some time when they realised they could not live apart. They settled down together, had two more (planned) beautiful children and continued to grow together into a relationship, friendship and a family that I would be blessed to have even 10% of in my future.

But I digress…

It has come up many times in my life, the slight backwardness of how our family came to be. My parent’s Baby Story happening before their Wedding Story in the TLC line-up of their life. I remember, on a number of occasions, joking about how I was the “accident”, even though my parents have never made me feel as such. When these jokes would come up, knowledgesponge was always there:

You weren’t an accident, you were a surprise.

Because an accident is something you don’t want…

But, a surprise is something you don’t know you want until you have it.