birfday day

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A lot of people asked me “so, did/do you have anything special planned for today????”

Ummm…no. It’s wednesday. A weekday. This complicates things. Kev works weird long hours, and I had choir practice at 7. Our big romantic celebratory dinner will be this weekend.

Today I slept in, did dishes, laundry, and vacuumed fiber bunnies off the rug. Then I got dressed, put on MAKEUP, because IT’S MY BIRFDAY AND I WANT TO LOOK PRETTY! Threw on one of my birthdymas* gifts from Kev:

calvin klein. and the softest leather you ever felt. other birthdymas gifts from Wilson Leather here.

and took my car in for emission inspection. Oh yeah. This girl knows how to party. Once my car passed inspection and the check was sent off to the county tax office, I decided to treat myself to a big sushi lunch – I HAD A COUPON! Mmmm…spicy tuna…salmon and cream cheese.

ducks as angry asian hat comes flying at me

IT WAS GOOD, OK???

* Meaning, I picked them out, and Kev decided instead of me spending my birthday gift money from MiL and gramma, he’d pay for my shopping spree, and make that my birfday and most of my christmas gift. Isn’t he a nice boy? That means I still have the money to buy YARN! Squeeee!

On my way home from the sushi place with my bag full o’ fishy goodies, I veered far right into a parking lot with christmas trees for sale. WE NEED A TREE! I DON’T NEED KEV’S TRUCK!!! So I bought a tree. A smaller tree than last year’s, and MUCH healthier (did you know live trees aren’t supposed to shed 75% of their needles in the first day?) So I spent the rest of my afternoon gorging on sushi and stringing lights on my pretty tree.

Annnnd…it’s all coming off tomorrow when I go buy NEW lights because this tree keeps eating them somehow. I’d plug in the lights before stringing them, all fine…then unplug and wrap around the tree…and then SOMEHOW…whoops! Half of them would be out. I what’s on there now is two sets I bought last year and I just notices that every 4th light on one of the strands is out, for no noticeable reason. fuck it. I’m splurging on LED lights. Anyone know the cheapest place to get them?

My birthday presents from mom and day came! And it’s knitters dream tools time!

ball winder and wooden umbrella swift

adorably tiny plymouth yarn bamboo sister set – which is not really the knitpicks options I had requested – somehow, mom missed the link I sent her – but I’ve done some research and they get very good reviews, so I can’t wait to try them out!

YAY MOM!

Everyone in choir sang me happy birthday, which was very nice Then Kev got home from work and brought me flowers, a slice of cake from the store, and a massive amount of chinese food. Uuuuurrrrrrrgggg…so full! A nice birthday all around. This weekend Kev’s taking me out for a nice romantic dinner, so as far as I’m concerned? It’s my birthday for the rest of the week.