I would like to have some great story as to why this has a great significance with "The Fletcher Five" but that story I do not have, I only have this story so here goes. The skin serves 2 fold....
One of my favorite movies of all time was ET and there is not a real good reason for that. Maybe it was becasue I remember watching it in the movie theater with Che or maybe it was becasue I have memories of watching it at the drive-in in that light blue Zepher station wagon that we used to cruise around in. Maybe it is beacue I thought that the movie was cooler than it actually was.
I remember one year for Christmas writing a note to Santa Clause on Christmas Eve that I wanted a toy that looked just like the silouet in the picture (an Elliot with ET in the basket) and Trace told me...."You can not ask Santa for something when he is here becasue he already had his bag packed" I was sure that she had no idea what she was talking about because Santa was magic. Sure enough the next morning there was not that toy in my stocking and as excited as I was for Christmas, this Christmas was not complete. For some reason I am thinking that this was the year that I also found out (On Christmas Day) that there was no Santa. I am sure that my Big sister told me something to the effect of........."See I told you that you would not get it in fact there is no such thing as Santa anyway it is just Dad and Mom." (It is no wonder why I am so concerned with emotionally scaring MY children now). Now I am not sure if any of that happened or not but I like to remember it that way so that I can now hold it over Tracy's head. Now the Disclaimer to Ken: I know that the movie is sub standard but for some reason I have an emotional attachment to that movie. (Blame Trace and her "big-sister-taunting" for me liking the movie)
The second reason for the skin of ET is that:
Christine started the Blog, she was trying to get me to post on it and I would not. I told her that this was her thing and that she did not want me to help. Every night that she would go to it I would look at the format and look at the skin and think...Geesh I would put this pic here or I would not use that color... It took everything that I had to not change it around. Last Monday she wanted me to post the Zoo pictures and so when she came home I smiled and told her that I did not want to take over her blog but I did and I picked a new skin that had emotional attachment as well as started to post thing on it and then what was hers became mine.
See this is what I did not want to do is take over
her space but I guess that last sentence sums up marriage....."and then what was hers became mine" So many times though what is Hers is mine and what is mine is mine. That is what is not fair and I wanted her to have something that was hers........But not on the computer I could not stand it.
I know that this is
our place and
our story as the Fletcher Five and I am lucky to have her a part of that.
