Birthday Weekend Recap

First, I want to take a minute to thank everyone who has posted such lovely birthday greetings. I’m officially 30 years old now and I am perfectly content to be so. 🙂

I had a wonderful birthday weekend. While I didn’t necessarily enjoy my Friday off, it did give me time to continue cleaning up the house and to visit with my parents for a bit.

Saturday, though, was WONDERFUL! I cleaned up a little bit in the morning, but then Terry took over and let me relax by handling everything else left as far as cleaning went. I was able to play video games and generally relax. Then I took a long, leisurely shower that ran the hot water heater out of hot water. 🙂 Having company in the house and a timer on the hot water heater to save electricity happens to do that to a gal. 😆 I got out of the shower and ready for dinner at a nearby restaurant with my parents, Terry’s dad, Terry and me.

Terry’s dad arrived before I came down, all decked out in a nice blouse and matching silk skirt, with dark pantyhose and black heels. I pulled my hair up partially with a pretty new hair clip, put on a good bit of makeup (which is unheard of for me) and was ready to go. It was chilly out and I had on short sleeves, so I got to use the off-white cashmere cardigan that I picked up last year for just $20 on clearance. 😉

I had been having this vague feeling that maybe there was something up with the dinner that I didn’t know about. When we arrived at the restaurant and were shown into a private room, there were three of our best friends. We’ve known two of the three since college and we all work in IT (Information Technology) at the same company, so it was a very comfortable setting. I have no idea if I looked surprised or not, but the feeling that had before been vague was so strong before we walked into that room that I was nearly in tears by the time we got there. We had a wonderful dinner and then afterwards, we all went back to the house for a little bit (except for Terry’s dad, who left after dinner). Two of the friends had actually never seen our house since we built it nearly 4 years ago. Hence my frenzied cleaning of the house. 😉

I was able to grab some sleep overnight and then was up in the morning to see my parents off at 9:30 AM. An attempt at an hour and a half long nap met with mostly failure before I had to get up again and get ready for the arrival of my birth father and stepmom. Once they arrived, we sat and talked for a while and then went out to Applebee’s for lunch. A pleasant lunch was had by all, after which we returned to the house and spent some more time talking. All in all, it was a nice, unhurried visit and it was very important to my growth as a person. I won’t explain right now, as it is a very long story of what has happened with that relationship over the years…

By the time Sunday night arrived, I was starting to feel a little down, probably from the end of all of that excitement. I didn’t have anything scheduled for work today, so I decided to take the day off to recuperate, which turned out to be a good idea. As far as gifts go, no real stash enhancements, sorry! Terry did build me a nice prototype stand to hold my scroll frames, though. He’s quite creative and had fun engineering his own design according to my needs. Other than that, though, we apparently had a communications breakdown, so I’ll be taking some of my own money and having some S.E.X. later this week. I just need to take a close look at what I want to schedule for stitching early next year, and determine what materials I may still need to work on those projects.

I’m sure I’ve made this post quite long enough for now.