On Saturday, the second day Suzanne was gone with her Champagne Garden Club, I planned to grab Skitter and drive up to Pleasant View to spend some time with my oldest sister and her hubby. I haven’t seen BT/Mercedes or Kent in person for months. But I thought I should accomplish something around the house before I left the house for the afternoon. I had the brilliant idea to organize the garage into something resembling order and tidiness. I figured it wouldn’t take me longer than the morning to knock out that chore. I should have known better. By mid-afternoon I knew there was no way I was going to be able to complete the job the way I envisioned, even if I spent the whole day on it. I texted my sister to tell her not to expect a visit from me that day, since I had made a mess that couldn’t stay a mess. I couldn’t leave the place all torn apart from my “organizing” all the stuff, or the garage would be unusable and un-navigable. So I had to spend that afternoon getting items mostly back where I had originally found them. My garage mission was a failure AND I didn’t get to visit my sister. But I was able to dream up a magnificent plan for when I next attempt real garage organization. It’s not that our garage is all that messy: it’s just that we have accumulated way too much stuff. Just look at my photo. There I am, holding a rainbow pinata and next to my left shoulder sits a cupcake pinata. I couldn’t find the pinata I have that’s shaped like a crown, but it’s there somewhere. Pinatas are not the kinds of items most people have taking up space in their garages, or in their 2-year supply (as we called it in the 70’s).
I have no earthly idea why I think we need pinatas, but I’m holding onto them. You never know. I’ll tell you this tidbit, too: a couple of years ago Suzanne texted me from work and asked if I still had the taco-shaped pinata I used as a prop for a Skitter photo on TIE O’ THE DAY. And if I did so, could she have it for a work party. Of course I still had it. She then texted and said, “So-and-so wants to know why you have a pinata around the house.” I had no answer for that question other than to say, “So-and-so clearly doesn’t yet know me very well, does she?” Then a while later that day, Suzanne texted and asked if I happened to have something with which to break the pinata open. Of course I did. I had a pinata stick. Later, she texted again to ask if I had candy for the pinata or did she need to assign someone to go get some. I texted back that not only did I have candy that would fit into the pinata, I had a bag of authentic pinata candy—right from the authentic pinata store. I let Suzanne have the taco pinata, pinata stick, and pinata candy. Her office had their little party. The taco pinata was hit with the pinata stick many times. It was hit—and it also was a hit. The pinata candy rained down on the office mates. While eating a piece of the fallen candy, Suzanne’s boss commented to her that the candy was very hard. I told Suzanne to tell her boss that old, hard candy is how you know the candy is authentic pinata candy. 🍬 🍬