Super Birthday

It started on Sunday when the score of the Super Bowl (I didn't care who won) came out to match my sqaures on the work grid. So I won $100! Then it got better when my State refund got deposited in my bank account a week earlier than I expected. Other than the cold I've been battling all weekend, things have been swell. Tuesday, the ladies at work gave me a gift certificate to my favorite salon so I can get my fingers and toes pampered. They also got me a Baskin Robbins ice cream pie in Peanut Butter and Chocolate but because of this damn cold I couldn't indulge, but it is home in my freezer waiting for me to get better. (If it doesn't get eaten first!) When I get home from work Taj is there with two dozen roses. When will he learn that my allergies can't handle flowers?!?!?! "But they're roses" he says. Yes, those are some of the worst. Oh well it's the thought that counts. So I take my Super Bowl winnings and we head off to Costco to buy me a new tv for my room. I have been looking at a partial tv screen for 3 months now and am damn tired of it. After a slightly heated discussion about which brand is best and should we go to another Costco to see if they have a better brands (No dammit! I'm sick and I want this one, put it in the cart!) we get to the check out. I pay part in cash and start to write a check for the remainder and Taj says I will pay the rest. Ok, thank you! I guess it was more than he thought because he started pulling 1's out of his pockets and counting change. It was starting to get funny and turned out he had exactly the right amount. The original plan was for he and I to go out to dinner but by this time I did not feel like getting dressed up and being seen in public, so I suggested we stop at the grocery store and I picked up some steaks. While Taj and my strong man Adam brought the tv in and set it up I cooked steaks and nuked vegetables. Marisa made me a huge brownie for dessert and with my feet up and a brownie in my face I watched the finale of Amazing Race! All in all a good day!

update

Sorry it has been so long, but as most of you know it has been pretty busy around here. We had such a short but Joyful visit with Erika and Jackson. He and Link made nice with each other, much to Erika's surprise.

The day they left (and Kathy went with them) mom and I took a bus turn around to Jean Nevada, to the Gold Strike and Nevada Landing. These are the two casinos between State Line and Vegas. Two we had only briefly stopped at once before and didn't like. But a friend of mine was doing a fundraiser so we figured we would give them another shot. At the bus pick up at 7am, seeing some friends who also happen to be Glendale voters, I rally up some more signatures for Kathy's ballot petition. We arrive in Jean at about noonish and get to gambling. Those Beverly Hillbillies are wonderful, they just kept shooting pennies at us. And those MIB (well Erika you know the story behind them) I won't go into it here, this is a family forum! A wonderful buffett (free!) and 7 hours later we get on the bus to go home. I have only spent $7.00 so I figure a dollar an hour for a days entertainment is not too bad! Unfortunately the bus broke down on the way home but we weren't too far into the desert that it only took 2 hours for a new one to trade. While we waited we watched John Q, if you haven't seen this take the time to, it is really very good.

A week back at work and cooking every night for Kathy's party the following week. And then mom and I were off to Vegas for some BINGO! Up at 4am to get an early start and into State Line by 7:30! Wonderful traffic, the best kind - NONE. As mom told you, she waited but I never did! Oh well! We had a wonderful dinner in the fancy restaurant on the house and a great trip all in all.

Back home on the same day as Kathy's campaign party. Arrived home at 11:30 am took everything we had cooked the previous week out of the freezer, started cooking the meatballs and weenies (ask mom for her secret sauce recipe), and away we went to the hall. Rosa did a beautiful job decorating and Adam and Taj were a great help schlepping things around and setting up and putting together signs. The girls manned the sign in table and made sure everyone had a button. Speeches and food and mingling, till about 8 and then it was home again, home again, jiggety jig.

Mom went home on Saturday and I got an awful cold just in time for the 3-day weekend. Back to work tomorrow and everything starts all over again.

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I know! Sorry! I will update this weekend on all the trivial things in my life!