I’ve lost my mind, but I’m super excited

I’m not sure if I’ve lost my mind, if I’m just overly excited about getting out and among ‘em again, but I just totally and accidentally invited myself to a Fourth of July party.

A best friend of mine who has great parties texted me almost a month ago an invitation to what I thought was a Fourth of July party, complete with the suggestion that I bring a Cajun side dish.

After more than a year of having a social life that fell into the negative category, I was super excited about the party and immediately marked my calendar, told my husband exactly where we were going to on Independence Day, and started searching for Cajun recipes.

My husband and I were talking about the party one night this week, and I went back to the text to make sure I had the right time. Like I said, I was kind of acting like a child at Christmas about this.

When I looked up the text, I saw that I had written a response the day I got it but never hit send. I don’t know about you, but I do that far too often which has nothing to do with being super excited and everything to do with needing a mental health checkup.

So, I sent my original response a month later, to which she responded, “please don’t tell me y’all are just now getting this invite.”

After an exchange in which I told her I was just checking the time of the Fourth of July Party, she said, “Well, that ship has sailed,” because it was actually an invitation for Memorial Day,

I looked back and sure enough the words Memorial Day were prominently written in the first line of the invitation, and it turns out I’m am losing my mind, but at least I’m excited while doing it.

Good news is, I can stay excited because she said she’s sending out invitations soon for the real Fourth of July party, which I’m assuming I will receive since I did technically invite myself.

Send me an invitation to all your parties. I might show up dressed as a unicorn on Halloween instead of Labor Day, but I promise, I will be excited.