Do you know what today is?

There is some obnoxious song I heard in college
and I think all the song says over
and over and over and over again is
"Do you know what today is? It's your anniversary."
Just sing that about 323 times in a row
and you have that song.
And be a black guy singing it.
That's all I remember about that song.
I probably heard it a total of three times
but ever since then (this was college so we're talking
early 90's, quite a while ago), it's been
there in my head. I don't mean that since that time
it's been stuck in my head like the way a song will get
stuck in your head. No.
I think if a person had a song stuck in their head
for over a decade, well, their head would
just have to explode.
That's all there is to it.
But no, that song has just always been there
in my head, taking up valuable space, ready for
something to trigger the memory of it and then
I go around singing it.
"Do you know what today is?
It's your anniversary."
The way the singer said "anniversary" was
really annoying too.
He said it like "an-i-ver-shary."


So, anyway,
DO YOU KNOW WHAT TODAY IS,
Dear Reader?
It's our anniversary.
Ordinary Days is two years old today.
I kind of find this hard to believe. But time passes. Things change. Just this very afternoon I was hanging on a float in a pool with this half-grown female beside me, talking to her, amazed to realize that this girl was my daughter. My tiny little baby girl daughter who has the nerve and the audacity to just continue to grow and change every single day.
But I digress.....

Happy Anniversary to my 1.5 readers. I love all one and one half of you and I thank you for reading and commenting in the various ways that you do. I am glad you stop by and check in on things here and roll your eyes and say to the other person in the room,
"This chick really needs to get a life."
You don't do that, do you?


Two years old.
Do you know what this means?
This means that we are a toddler blog now.
We are headed into The TERRIBLE TWOS.
All posts for the next year stretching out ahead of us
will be drool-y and have short attention spans and get
easily tired and suddenly hungry and not be able
to control their bladders.
And they might occasionally pitch a fit
when you least expect it.
Let's just try to keep on a routine here
and hope that we mature past these
TERRIBLE TWOS.

I have a friend who says that just by say Terrific twos!
(with a sugary sweet smile on your face)
instead of TERRIBLE TWOS
(deep voice and frown) that you will help alter the
behavior of your child. I never found the twos to be
particularly terrible with my children
(may Baby J not prove me wrong).
I'm not going to excuse crazy behavior because of
a child's age. I also don't expect five year old
behavior from a two year old.

So don't expect five year old blog posts
from a two year old blog, okay?

I know last year we had a Christmas in July give away
to celebrate the first an-i-ver-shary (and thanks again to the
lovely winner of that give away for not setting me on fire
because it took a couple of MONTHS for me to actually
get her prize to her---sorry, dear friend).
Would you guys like that again?
Would you like me to spend the rest of the month
assembling some kind of little grab bag of small joys
to give to one lucky reader?
Let me know.

Happy an-i-ver-shary Dear Reader!
May there be many more lovely ordinary days
for both you and me!
I'm glad you are sharing them with me.