Well, the day has come and gone... And what's the verdict? ...I have never had a worse birthday in my life. I'm woken up with a phone call from my mother to come out and help do yard work. So, I drag myself from bed and head outside. Once out, I'm put right to work pulling up those thorny raspberry bushes by hand . Sometime during the pain of pulling them up, the phone goes off and it's my dad (parents having been divorced for a long time). I pick it up, and my dad, the man I can't stand because... read more