To Dd:

So it’s really late at night – I can’t sleep and am doing … guess what I’m doing?  After your little “let’s see Daisy suck at sudoku” trick you pulled the other night I’ve realized I’ve got to get back into the game!  Seriously I couldn’t sleep ALL NIGHT just because you made me look like a fool.  That … or maybe I was distracted by other things – we’ll NEVER know.

So anyway like I said to you that night – I use sudoku all of the time to help me fall asleep and tonight is no exception.  Except that TONIGHT is a little different because tonight playing this little Japanese whatever made me think of you and then thinking of you made me think of my oh-so-precious jalapeño plant. 

Did you know I’ve been gone for over a week and have neglected to check up on it?  I would say I am a HORRIBLE jalapeño mommy but I prefer to say that I just trusted you SO MUCH that I didn’t feel the need to check on it.  Umm … yeah let’s go with that. 

So [pause] how’s my plant coming along?   If only I were there in person you could see my excitement – but you’ll have to trust that emoticon.  Yes – THIS emoticon.  Oh how I love emoticons.

Ok well I hope everything is super.  And if you have time to tell me if the jelly belly jalapeño growing on that gorgeous plant is still alive that’d rock big time.

xxx ~Daisy

It’s late at night and when it’s late at night I lose 34% of my intelligence. The email above was to Davide and it is WORD FOR WORD, copy-and-paste, what I wrote to him about 5 minutes ago.  Why am I posting it?  Because sometimes I’m such a doof that I surprise even myself.   Plus it’s a quick way to give you an up-to-the-minute update.  I can’t wait to hear about my plant and I have the worst insomnia EVER right now.  I’ll let you know if he responds because I’m sure you’re all DYING to know about my plant too.