Monday, November 14, 2005

The most wonderful time of the year…

No, not Christmas silly, my birthday!  My fabulous, wonderful birthday!  I had THE BEST birthday weekend ever.  Freeman and I went to a burlesque show on Thursday night.  My dance teacher’s daughter was performing.  I think she is an amazing dancer and she is very creative, so I thought it would be fun to see what she put together.  I wasn’t let down at all.  She did a great number to one of Elvis’s songs. It was a lot of fun.
We got home late and woke up late Friday morning.  It was very nice to have a three day weekend for my birthday.  Just one of the reasons I like having my birthday right where it is!  Mom came up Friday morning and we went out to an early lunch.  Then mom and I took off shopping!  Yeah for shopping!  I got a new coat; it’s very nice, light colored, waterproof and warm.  All things that I needed in a coat for the winter time.  Now I can walk home in the dark with more confidence.  People at least have a chance of seeing me.  We also got a few new shirts for work (thanks mom!) which I desperately needed.
Mom bought us a lovely cast iron tea pot.  It’s got a terrific maple leaf pattern on it and has a blue hue.  I really like it and I’ve already made a great pot of tea.  It was a lovely think to do on Sunday after our Housewarming party.  She also got me a great pair of PJ’s for the party.  I think everyone should have a pair of sock monkey pj’s to party in!  They were a hit.
By the way, Freeman and I had a housewarming party on Saturday night.  It was a lot of fun.  We had about 8 people over and sat around chatting and drinking and eating.  We had “cartoon” hour where Freeman introduced a bunch of people to “robot chicken” a funky cartoon on the cartoon network.  I found a new type of liquor, Patron XO café, a very tasty way to drink tequila.  It’s actually tequila with coffee liqueur in it.  I mixed it with hot chocolate for a very tasty treat.
All in all, I have to say it was a truly wonderful weekend.  I was very blessed that everything turned out the way it did.  Thanks everybody!