Most Exciting Week Ever

A description of my blog. http://www.my-site.com 4024248450122787479 Most Exciting Week Ever 2007/08/#4024248450122787479 2007-08-22 Summary of our 14th anniversary: I put a chicken casserole from Costco in the oven. Mrs. Diesel gets home from work and lies down because she's exhausted from her first day teaching. She gets up and walks back into the kitchen, where I am busy at my laptop. She notices there are roses in a pitcher on the counter. "Where did these come from?" she asks.

"Oh," I said, having completely forgotten that I bought her roses. "Those are for you." I add, with a flourish, "SURPRISE!"

She kisses me on my absentminded head and we eat dinner. Then she leaves for "back to school night," and is gone until 8:30. She's exhausted. We watch TV for an hour, then go to bed.

And as if that weren't enough excitement for one week, today is my daughter Speed Pony's sixth birthday! That's right, we got married one day (and 8 years) before she was born.

Speed Pony is completely insane, and too smart for her own good. A sampling of her wit:

She asked my wife why our cat, Phoebe, is so furry. "She's a mammal," Mrs. Diesel says. "Mammals have fur or hair on their bodies."

Speed Pony stroked the cat's thick fur and said, "Phoebe is WAY a mammal."

Another time, she came out of her room at about 10pm, to find me eating a bowl of cereal. "What are you eating?" she asked. "Cereal," I said.

She turned to my wife and said, "Man, is he nocturnal or what?"

I don't know where she gets this stuff. Anyway, more excitement tonight as we get to go to Speed Pony's fine dining establishment of choice for dinner: McDonald's.

I leave you with the photo stylings of my eight year old, Climber. Enjoy.