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Benchmark Birthday
It’s My Birthday — I Expect To Be Humored
Even if my birthday request involves dinosaurs
Since Hubs and I have been at this married thing for four and a half decades — he knows the drill. It’s best to humor me.
Our usual MO for birthdays is to go out for a fancy dinner. I’m all for fancy dinners but also for leveraging my birthday to get him to do something he’s not thrilled about. It’s not like I have to wait for my birthday to get him to humor me — he has learned a few things along the way.
My request was simple. We’ve lived in the desert for seven years, and before living here, we were snowbirds as full-time RVers for three years. We love the desert but like living anywhere we often forget to be tourists in our own backyard.
My request — let’s be tourists and venture out on a day trip.
He agreed and I laid out my plan. I’d heard of the crazy sculptures in the desert in the Borrego Springs area. I did enough googling to determine we could view them with minimal time out of the truck — meaning minimal time sweating our keesters off.
