balance

what goes up, must come down...

laura and i had a great weekend! friday night: dinner and a concert, saturday: brunch, a bike ride and margaritas, and two parties on sunday! in four words: a nice birthday weekend.

the flemings here might not know the expression 'to jinx something'. let me explain: if you say something like, thank god the weather is nice, it will soon start to rain. that's because you 'jinxed it'! you can't point out anything extraordinary because the gods of karma will notice things are out of balance and they will balance them for you! so now the skeptics (and i like to count myself as one) will scream: superstition! but...

when we told our guests at our little house party yesterday: this is a great neighborhood! we love it here and we've had such an amazing weekend! we jinxed it...

this afternoon, when laura went to move our car (alternate side parking), she found our window smashed in, the dashboard ripped open and the car stereo gone. brussels style! bummer; balance restored. All in all not too big of a deal, just annoying because we have a 4 hour drive planned on friday and now we'll have to sing all the way there.

the irony is: at our party yesterday we heard about a friend who found her car on blocks one morning, all four wheels ($1500 each) gone! imagine how much fun she must have had the weekend before this happened to her...