{"id":332,"date":"2007-11-14T10:22:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T15:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/2007\/11\/14\/november-surprises\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T15:22:54","slug":"november-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"November surprises."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a year ago, I anxiously reported that Lisa D., one of my most favourite people, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/2006\/10\/24\/best-news-ever\/\">was coming to town<\/a> to celebrate her birthday.\u00a0 Typical Lisa.\u00a0 She lives a far away, and has for years, but she always finds a way to swoop back into town and catch us all off guard.\u00a0 She loves a good surprise.\u00a0 One of my favourites was when she secretly planned to fly in to make it to one of our friend&#8217;s weddings and told no one she would be there.\u00a0 I almost lost it.\u00a0 Oh wait, I did lose it.\u00a0 I was a basketcase.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"lis.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/lis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image1422\" style=\"width: 474px; height: 307px\" height=\"307\" alt=\"lis.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/lis.jpg\" width=\"474\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another memorable surprise came at my own wedding.\u00a0 Lisa was a bridesmaid and therefore couldn&#8217;t surprise me with her own appearance, but she succeeded in keeping from me that her Willie (another one of my favourite people) was secretly making the trip out\u00a0up until the night before.\u00a0 It would have\u00a0remained completely under wraps\u00a0were it not for my supremely sharp P.I. skills.\u00a0 Either way, still amazing.\u00a0 Again, they got me.\u00a0\u00a0I was mush.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"lisad_willie.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/lisad_willie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image1426\" style=\"width: 475px; height: 347px\" height=\"347\" alt=\"lisad_willie.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/lisad_willie.jpg\" width=\"475\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I shouldn&#8217;t have been surprised when the phone rang two days ago at 7 am.\u00a0 But I was.\u00a0 Lisa D&#8217;s mom was on the line to give us the good news&#8230;.LISA AND WILLIE got engaged!!!\u00a0 And in a very typical Lisa and Willie style, it happened in Australia&#8230; on the Sydney Bridge.\u00a0 Way to go, Willie.\u00a0 That&#8217;s pretty untopable.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"lisandwillie.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/lisandwillie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image1425\" style=\"width: 479px; height: 363px\" height=\"363\" alt=\"lisandwillie.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/lisandwillie.jpg\" width=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In all the excitement, I can&#8217;t forget to wish Lisa a happy, happy birthday.\u00a0 Though, something tells me that is already taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a year ago, I anxiously reported that Lisa D., one of my most favourite people, was coming to town to celebrate her birthday.\u00a0 Typical Lisa.\u00a0 She lives a far away, and has for years, but she always finds a way to swoop back into town and catch us all off guard.\u00a0 She loves a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5,6,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}