I went to bed with a blonde on Friday and woke up Saturday with a redhead. At first, I didn’t think much of it. Liz had changed her hair color several times since we’d met. A natural blonde, she’d been brunette fairly often, occasionally jet black, one autumn it had been purple. I figured she’d had trouble sleeping and dyed it at 3 a.m. on a lark. I told her I liked her hair and she briefly had a quizzical look on her face but then said Thanks.
When I went to the kitchen to make coffee, it seemed to me that our goldfish had grown about 30% larger overnight. But it could also have just been that I’d not paid attention to it lately. The kids kept it fed and took care of cleaning the tank, so my involvement with it was minimal. Throughout the day several things seemed a bit odd, but none of them so different that they freaked me out. The living room seemed to be painted a slightly different shade of yellow. The pear tree I’d planted in the backyard wasn’t quite as tall as I remembered it and was just a bit closer to the neighbor’s yard than it should have been. Subtle differences, but ones I could dismiss easily enough since I’d always been a bit of a space case and had never won the Most Observant Human Ever award.
I sat with my coffee and fired up my tablet but peakd wouldn’t load. But Steemit seemed quite active, with several of the accounts that I follow abuzz about 
But it wasn’t until we re-watched Tropic Thunder that evening that I knew that my world had changed. Owen Wilson was playing the Rick Peck character. When I asked Liz what the hell had happened to Matthew McConaughey, she looked at me like I’d lost it and reminded me that Tropic Thunder was Wilson’s last role before he’d become California’s Governor. I wasn’t in Kansas any more.
Sunday was the clincher. Liz’s parents had picked up Ben and Krissy on Friday after school to spend the weekend with them up at the lake. When they’d gone, I had a 14-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter, but when my in-laws came by on Sunday to drop the kids off, Krissy was the older of the two and Ben proudly showed me the silver dollar the Tooth Fairy had given him for the baby tooth he’d put under his pillow last night.
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