Tammi's World

Wisdom......

So I"m here in Indiana, kind of a Birthday weekend as it were. Yesterday my baby sister turned 40 years old. It just can't be possible. Hell - I remember where our Mother turned 40!!

Anyway, we had a wonderful meal of homemade tamales and pineapple cake. Afterwards, my sister, the firefighter decides she wants us all to watch a movie together. OK - her birthday, it's whatever she wants. She wants to watch Ladder 49. I didn't have the heart to tell her I had just watched it the night before.

It's a pretty cool movie - not all action packed but does a fairly good job of showing the life of a firefighter. It's a great flick to watch with HER.

After the movie, she and I are sitting around talking. She finally admits she'd had a very trying day. Ahhh. I hate to hear that on someone's birthday. So I ask what happened. Here is where you begin to see that maybe we really are sisters on some deeper level.

Seems she was cleaning up her house yesterday. Had the vaccum out and was sweeping up the ashes in the fireplace. Except she had a small fire going. Yes, you guessed it. She accidently "sucked up" a hot ember. Turns around and the vaccum is on fire. :-) What could I say?

THEN...and yes there is more.....Then she's on the phone. Doesn't have a cordless right now so she has the wall unit model with the long, long cord. She also has a thing about not turning on her furnace until Thanksgiving. So she has space heaters. She's talking on the phone when all of a sudden it goes dead. She fiddles with the handset. Nothing. She looks back at the wall unit. Looks ok. Then she follows the cord. Everything is fine until she gets about half way back. Did you know phone cords melt when suspended just above a space heater for an extended amount of time? Yeah, well, they do.

My sister - the firefighter. Set's her vaccum on fire and melts a phone cord. Like I said - MY sister.

Happy Birthday Darlin!!! Let's just hope we really do get wiser with age. ;-)

Posted by Tammi at October 23, 2005 06:48 AM