Happy Father's Day!

My dad is fun and quirky. One thing that he does that drives me crazy (for no apparent reason) is when he gets to the end of his Cucumber Ranch Salad Dressing bottle, he cuts the bottle in half and scoops out the rest of the dressing because it's impossible to have gravity do the work for you (I know, I've tried).

I've always found this to be really weird, and kind of embarrassing. I don't know why. Maybe because there's not that much left in the bottle, and we always have more.

But I recently found myself to the end of my face moisturizer bottle, and couldn't get the rest of it to come out for the life of me... so I resorted to my dad's old standby trick:

I cut the bottle in half and was able to use the lotion inside for about another week! That's a lot of lotion left over.

When I did this, I immediately thought of my dad, and teasing him all those times for cutting the salad dressing bottle in half.

So I sent him the photo via text message to show him the error of my ways. I captioned it, "I am my father's daughter."

My mom responded immediately with "What can I say?"

Three days later, my dad responds: "Finally figured out seeing a picture. Yes you are my daughter."

I died laughing. Mostly because it was three days later. It was just too good.

So Dad, I'm glad I'm your daughter. I hope to continue to do other quirky things that are pretty practical. And you always keep me laughing. It's because you're my D.U.D. (dear, understanding Dad).

University of Michigan graduation 2007

Happy Father's Day!