Sorry that the pictures aren’t up yet (I don’t even know if there are any good ones, since I didn’t take ’em) but I was home sick yesterday with a migraine. Urgh. No fun at all. I was stuck in bed all day holding onto my head, praying for it to stop. I think its a result of going off the BCPs and now my hormones are all a mess. What fun times I have ahead! Yippee! So after getting caught up here at work, I am now leaving the office for the rest of the day to attend a seminar/conference thingy. Yeah, it’s that technical. So the pictures will have to wait another day since tonight is my weekly Wednesday night dinner. Oh and there may be more pictures added to them, since we are kinda celebrating tonight too. Mostly because I have an ENTIRE cake left, but also to share my birthday love with those who missed the party on Sunday. Ok, gotta run now. Adios amigos!

I was just checking my Yahoo! email and a survey popped up asking for my opinion. I am all about giving my opinion (that and I was bored) so I clicked ok. It said it should take about 10 minutes (which I totally had) and wanted to know my thoughts on their services and products. The first question was my age bracket. Instinctually, I went for the “18-24” option but then I stopped. I was no longer in that age bracket! I was up a bracket!! So I, sadly, clicked the “25-34” option. Then to my dismay, it said “Thank you. We already have enough information from this sector.”

Damn 25. What a let down!

Wow! All I can say is I was actually surprised. For those of you who don’t know, my lovely husband threw me a surprise party for my birthday. Well, to be totally honest, he had to, since it is a standing tradition in my family that for your 25th birthday, you get a surprise party. Which makes it harder and harder to actually surprise the person. But my honey sure did surprise me.

My weekend was following the itinerary to a tee up to the point where we came home from lunch with my boss. We pulled into the garage of my (seemingly) quiet house and I grabbed the leftover cake from lunch and headed inside…to find about twenty people in my family room! I just about threw the cake in the air because I thought I was being robbed. Then once they all shouted “SURPRISE!!” I realized it was just my family and friends breaking into my house, bringing food and gifts to celebrate ME! So I guess you could say we stuck right to the plan of making the day ALL ABOUT ME!!

Well, to be totally honest, I must admit that I kinda had my suspicions about the party. All the phone calls in which Simeon would wander out of the room, the fact that practically no one called me to wish me a happy birthday, how Simeon took a lot longer time getting home on Friday after work, etc. all kinda tipped me off. But then I started thinking that maybe I was just wanting him to throw me a party so much that I was imagining it all. And not wanting to be disappointed if he didn’t plan anything, I quickly dismissed it. However I was totally shocked to have all those people at my house when I returned. If anything, I figured he would have had them all meet us at a restaurant that evening when he was going to take me out to dinner. So it was a very good thing that I was dressed in a cute outfit and actually wearing make-up when he decided to have the party (unlike when we returned from breakfast that morning!).

All in all it was a great party. There was tons of food and most of my family (we all missed you, Darcie!) was there, including a couple of my friends. I know that due to circumstances beyond their control, my other friends would have been there too. But you guys all filled my inbox with e-cards and birthday wishes that totally made up for the fact that you couldn’t make it. Don’t worry, I forgive you all!

There aren’t too many pictures, you know, since I was kinda being the center of attention and trying to get my shit together after the big surprise thing. But what I did manage to remind Simeon to take, I will upload tonight and get those on here tomorrow. But I wanted to thank each and every one of you for being in my life. You all make it fabulous and I can’t imagine it without ya. To another year, baby! I love you guys!

Ok, for those of you who just saw me emerge from the restroom gagging and gasping for breath, rest assure, it was not as a result of anything I did in there. That damn air freshener that is set to randomly emit a toxic floral scent sprayed directly over my head as I was washing my hands. Ewwww. I have a serious love-hate relationship with the spray. It loves me and I hate it. For some reason the damn thing sprays just about every time I go into the bathroom. Which for a normal person, wouldn’t be that bad. But we all know I am not normal and my pea-size bladder requires I make frequent trips to the ladies room. Urgh. So now I smell like the spray, which in the past has been described as “old lady smell” thankyouverymuch.

I am so tired this week. My brain does not want to function. I just drained my grande white chocolate mocha and am patiently waiting for that to kick in. It may be awhile. I slept like crap last night. I seriously laid in bed for like an hour listening to Simeon and Ellie alternate snoring when I finally decided to get up and read some blogs. I did that for another hour then went back to bed and tried to fall asleep. What felt like moments later, I was awoken by a lovely thunder and lightening storm at 4 am. (Now normally I am all over lightening storms. Love ’em. But not at 4 am! Come on, now!) So when my alarm went off at 6:30 I told Simeon that he was getting up first and I was gonna try to sleep some more and just get in to work a little late.

And here I am…..Still waiting on that mocha to kick in….

So my agenda for the weekend is to rest up as much as possible. I may even hit the Tylenol PM tonight to knock me out. My shoulders have really been bothering me at night and I think that has a lot to do with the lack of sleep also. Urgh. But Simeon and I are not ready to drop a couple thousand dollars on a new mattress, so I will bite my tongue for now. I was thinking about those mattress toppers, the memory foam ones. For like $70 its like a new mattress, right? Has any one tried them? Or have any advice? I am dying over here people….

Oh and since I am all over the place here and asking for advice. I am also in dire need of an area rug to go under our dining room table. Any one know of a place to get a decent looking one, reasonably priced, that is at least 8×8? I have had a really hard time locating one that is so big. Most of them are 5×7 and then the chair legs will be off of the rug, and that just will not do. I have looked at Linens N Things, Burlington Coat Factory, Target, Fred Meyer, and Mervyn’s. The closest thing I have found is an 8×10 at Tuesday Mornings for $199. But its just a really plain beige rug. I think I want something, if I am gonna be spending lots of money on it, that is glamorous. Makes a statement. Shows my personality. Am I asking too much for a rug??? This afternoon I am going to look at Meier & Frank, Ross, and a few other places. But any recommendations you all have would be great. Fire away!!

(PS I am still waiting for you slackers to finish reading HP6 so I can talk it over some more. Kiki is the only one sustaining me over here! Thanks, sweetie!!)