For those of you who have been playing along with my over-sharing this past year, this is a follow-up to the Fish Plate Tag post. For those of you who haven’t been consistently playing, we have a set of plastic fishplates that have been floating about our family for years. The idea is to “tag” someone by secreting a plate in a gift or in his or her home or on his or her person and then wait to get it back in some equally secret way. I forgot I had gotten “tagged” last year by Brother who snuck the plate into a box with the jacket he surprise sent me. I forgot that I had the fishplate stashed somewhere in the house when I stupidly agreed that we were doing no gifts this year. I forgot until a friend of mine reminded me and then, even though Brother was coming to stay with us, I was stumped. How could I "tag" Brother when we were doing no gifts? Could I get the plate into Brother's luggage without him finding it amongst his undies? Should I pack it up and send it to him in SF while he’s flying here? We’ve already been gifted a chopped up fishplate and then gifted it back, glued together and in a frame. How to top that? And then Husband came through! Husband is AWESOME!!! Brother was having IPad issues and Husband was serving as his IT department. Lots of discussions about the possible names Brother might have registered his iPad under resulted in Brother giving Husband his password. Which meant that Husband and I could take the iPad when Brother was showering and snap a picture of the fish and make it Brother’s iPad screensaver!!! Brother’s response to the screensaver? “Well, played. Well, played.”
My response to his, "I AM THE WINNER!!!" ... followed by a thoroughly crazy movie villain laugh and silly dancing. And, because Brother could care less about changing it, it is likely to stay as his screensaver for a long, long while. Of course, we still have the dang fishplate but that can’t last for long. Brother has a birthday coming up. And if that doesn't work, there is Arbor Day...
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