Hippo birdies two Gotcha!

[mamagotcha]

Woke up just before 7 a.m. all hot and sweaty (this house has ZERO air movement on the top floor, and the placement of the working outlets makes it hard to set up fans to help) but a shower helped. Fixed my hair but it still looked like it belonged to the unholy offspring of Shirley Temple and Severus Snape. Made a cup of tea and took the Sunday paper to the backyard to read, where I watched two starlings futiley trying to fill up their insatiable fledglings. I feel your pain, Mom and Dad.

Nobody was awake yet and I was feeling peckish, so I grabbed the Alice Munroe collection and headed out to find some sustanance. Landed at Panera (tried to bring my business to a couple local places, but they weren't open yet), and slowly nibbled on a pecan roll, a spinach souffle, a mocha and a story.

Brought home a cheese slipper for the hungry boys, and snagged Bill for some shopping (thanks for watching Linc, Clay!). We found some nice American Tourister luggage at a yard sale (and will now give away all our other problematic luggage). Then we went to Home Depot for box fans and some colorful plants for the front entryway. Gerbera daisies just always seem like they're grinning at me, the Labrador Retriever of flowers; I love having a box of them to greet me when I come home.

I'd whined about a birthday cake last night, so then we went to the store to get Scharffenberger so Bill could make me a torte ("Squeak, squeak," said the wheel). We also got Mojito makings and gin to try our hands at the yummy red bell pepper/mint/lime drink we had at Manifesto. I should be well-oiled by the time we get to "Star Trek" tonight, at the new downtown theater... we got two tickets to their fancy-schmancy room, with lounge chairs and tableside service, w00t!

jedusor send me a Frazz book (even better than I thought it would be: an underground homeschooling grown-up Calvin!). My folks sent a nice check that I'll get some new Junonia duds with. Clay even gave me a hug with one of his friends in the room (a tremendous feat for a 15yo boy).

Thanks for all the sweet birthday wishes, via e-mail and Facebook and smoke signal. It's been absolutely loverly so far!

Comments

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

Oh, happy, happy, and happy to you!

(Hint: window fans. The Best.)

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

(And yes, they are!)