Ok, my birthday

Yep. I had a birthday Friday. Now I am officially 36. But that means that I will tell my students for the second year in a row that I am 36 because for some reason I was caught up with being 36 last year too. Maybe I’ll be 36 next year as well.

I had a great day. Chris took the day off and we rambled around town and lazed around the house. It was a game night so the game went on but not until we had a great dinner of shish kabobs, green salad, potato salad and a great German chocolate cake that Chris made. (I discovered that I don’t like making shish kabobs and would much rather just cook all of the parts in a great big heap instead of taking the time to put them on a stick to cook only to have everyone take the bits back off of the stick.)

The loot was spectacular:

• Homemade, Chocolate, Yogurt muffins (yum!)
• A necklace from Etsy with the silhouette of trees in front of the blue sky that you see just as the sun sets
• A Panera gift card
• A dead, female rhinoceros beetle (it has a little horn)
• A stirling silver pendant of a tree from James Avery (part of that purchase went to a conservatory)
• The skeleton of a North American Toad
• Of Pride, Prejudice and Zombies
• A Gyro wheel
• A sparkly magic wand with kaleidoscopes twirling inside
• A mini pirate kite
• An eco-tote

As you can see I made out like a bandit.

Thank you, thank you.