lost and found......

ok, so.......on saturday evening i received an early birthday gift from a friend, as well as the loan of a tom wolfe novel......and when i arrived home i had neither....not good, considering that i lost my new umbrella recently.......and so today i was delighted to find both.....sequentually......the gift and the novel were in the far rear seat of the minivan we shared with friends......now that their eldest drives nobody sits back there....and thus it went undiscovered til tuesday......the gift was nice lotion.....which i plucked from the bag to take to work......and placed with my purse in the backseat of the honda.......when i got to work the purse was there....but the lotion was nowhere to be found.......and it was then that i got down on my hands and knees to reach deep behind the drivers seat.......and eureka...there was the lotion and the umbrella........gentle readers......this is a benign recitation at best.....to those who are not yet in the lost never to be found stage of life......let me be clear...such a small thing as finding an umbrella raised my spirits and lifted my step for the next 9 work hours....and that is no small feat in public health........