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Summary - Sam muses over past birthdays with her family and gets a little drunk. What will happen when a certain airforce Colonel lands on her door?
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Cards, Beer video tapes
Sam sighed and pushed the papers she had been studying away from her, rubbing her strained eyes. She quickly clicked on her email and saw two new emails had come through. She frowned and deleted the spam mail, which made up one of the two. She sat forward as she read the name of the next and its subject tittle. It was from her brothers email name and read 'Happy Birthday Auntie Sam'. Sam grinned to herself and clicked the open message icon, which she noticed contained a picture as well. Her smile widened as a picture of her two nieces appeared on her screen holding up a big birthday banner. Underneath read a caption
'don't worry sis I didn't tell them your real age they just know its not far off fifty have a good birthday. Don't do anything I wouldn't do'
Sam giggled and clicked onto a ecard site she knew and selected a huge smiling face with a caption of 'thankyou' written under it. She quickly wrote a note reading:
'Thankyou for the picture I love it. Fifty isnt that bad Mark you manage to cope ;-). Not doing anything you wouldn't do leaves me a lot of options! Give the girls my love, Sam'
She sent the card and saved the birthday email to her personal file. Switching off her computer she made her way through to her kitchen and pulled out a beer from the fridge. She mused on the upcoming day. She actually wasn't doing anything. Yet, another birthday spent alone. It always seemed to land on a day off and she wasn't a person to inform everyone she was another year older. It was a long time since she'd done any kind of celebrating although she sometimes got a little nostalgic thinking back on the birthdays spent as a child with her mom and dad brother and hoard of friends. After her mom had died, birthdays had become a small-uncelebrated thing between them all. Almost non-existent especially between her dad and Mark. After her dad had finally made amends with his relationship with his son, she had received regular e-cards at Christmas, Easter, birthday's etc from her brother and his family.
Sam shook herself from her musing state and glanced at the clock. Ten o'clock. She decided it was too early in the evening to sleep and grabbing another beer from the fridge carried them both into living room. She thoughtfully sat and drank a beer flicking through a TV magazine looking for something to watch. Her mind ticked over and the past again started to invade her mind. Sam set the magazine on the table and bottle in hand wandered into her room opening her closet door. She looked up eyes roving the shelves. Ah there it was. She set her beer bottle on the nightstand and pulled a box from the shelf at the top of her closet. Inside was a collection of family videos. With the box under one arm and her beer once more in hand she went back to the living room and set the box on the floor. After drinking, back the last of her beer Sam set the empty bottle on top of the TV cabinet and reopened the box scanning the tittles of each video. 'Samies 15th birthday' Sam's hand paused over the video. It was the last birthday with her mom and she tried to cast her mind back to it. Memories were blurred and she frowned. She shrugged her shoulders took a deep breath and slipped the video into the VCR. Picking up the remotes she settled back into her chair and flicked the on switch of the TV and play button.
Summary - Sam muses over past birthdays with her family and gets a little drunk. What will happen when a certain airforce Colonel lands on her door?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cards, Beer video tapes
Sam sighed and pushed the papers she had been studying away from her, rubbing her strained eyes. She quickly clicked on her email and saw two new emails had come through. She frowned and deleted the spam mail, which made up one of the two. She sat forward as she read the name of the next and its subject tittle. It was from her brothers email name and read 'Happy Birthday Auntie Sam'. Sam grinned to herself and clicked the open message icon, which she noticed contained a picture as well. Her smile widened as a picture of her two nieces appeared on her screen holding up a big birthday banner. Underneath read a caption
'don't worry sis I didn't tell them your real age they just know its not far off fifty have a good birthday. Don't do anything I wouldn't do'
Sam giggled and clicked onto a ecard site she knew and selected a huge smiling face with a caption of 'thankyou' written under it. She quickly wrote a note reading:
'Thankyou for the picture I love it. Fifty isnt that bad Mark you manage to cope ;-). Not doing anything you wouldn't do leaves me a lot of options! Give the girls my love, Sam'
She sent the card and saved the birthday email to her personal file. Switching off her computer she made her way through to her kitchen and pulled out a beer from the fridge. She mused on the upcoming day. She actually wasn't doing anything. Yet, another birthday spent alone. It always seemed to land on a day off and she wasn't a person to inform everyone she was another year older. It was a long time since she'd done any kind of celebrating although she sometimes got a little nostalgic thinking back on the birthdays spent as a child with her mom and dad brother and hoard of friends. After her mom had died, birthdays had become a small-uncelebrated thing between them all. Almost non-existent especially between her dad and Mark. After her dad had finally made amends with his relationship with his son, she had received regular e-cards at Christmas, Easter, birthday's etc from her brother and his family.
Sam shook herself from her musing state and glanced at the clock. Ten o'clock. She decided it was too early in the evening to sleep and grabbing another beer from the fridge carried them both into living room. She thoughtfully sat and drank a beer flicking through a TV magazine looking for something to watch. Her mind ticked over and the past again started to invade her mind. Sam set the magazine on the table and bottle in hand wandered into her room opening her closet door. She looked up eyes roving the shelves. Ah there it was. She set her beer bottle on the nightstand and pulled a box from the shelf at the top of her closet. Inside was a collection of family videos. With the box under one arm and her beer once more in hand she went back to the living room and set the box on the floor. After drinking, back the last of her beer Sam set the empty bottle on top of the TV cabinet and reopened the box scanning the tittles of each video. 'Samies 15th birthday' Sam's hand paused over the video. It was the last birthday with her mom and she tried to cast her mind back to it. Memories were blurred and she frowned. She shrugged her shoulders took a deep breath and slipped the video into the VCR. Picking up the remotes she settled back into her chair and flicked the on switch of the TV and play button.