Sunday BBQ & Cupcakes!
We celebrated my birthday with a end-of summer BBQ of hotdogs (Miller’s hotdogs are the best!) and Hamburgers. I ate too much of the chips and onion dip – my brain WAS trying to tell my hands to stop grabbing more but obviously my eyeballs had taken over the controls. UGH. I should just scoop a ploop of onion dip in a bowl and that is that…but that’s for people who have more self-control than I when it comes to salty snack food. Oh, well.
Of course I have no pictures of the food, DER, other than my Cupcake Love…
Birthday Cupcake Lovin’
Now that’s attractive. 🙂 Thanks family for the laughs and the gift cards. We will certainly use the Disney ones soon (I wish sooner…) and will get some new workout gear from Lucy and Athleta as soon as I log onto their websites.
My solo birthday buy-obration
So yesterday was my actual day of birth…thanks mom & dad for doing what you did so I can be around (that sounds gross…but it’s the truth – well unless you were mixed in a tube or something – but that’s another discussion). Since it was a normal day – for everyone else – I took the day off and buy-0brated my brains out at TJ Maxx, Ross, JC Penney, Marshalls and Trader Joe’s (that visit was to up the snack volume in our pantry). Get it??? I bought a lot of stuff to celebrate my birthday…a “Buy-obration”. Dorky, I know…but I laughed. 🙂
My intent was to buy a couple of tops for work – you know to go with all my black pants (see earlier posts). I guess you could say I was successful IF I want to wear work-out tops to work. UH, that’s a no. I did buy a blouse, black, but it’s one of those that wickedly hard to get on & off – you know, no zippers or buttons just a sheer overlay with an attached silk camisole. After struggling to get the darn thing off I decided that was a “return” for sure along with a pair of super cute lace overlay shorts that was a size “M” written in teeny tiny print that I obviously didn’t see. Bleah!
So on to the goods…in collage form 🙂
Loads of goodies!
So clockwise we got some workout clothes (those shorts were only $5!), Kelly green cardigan, 3 tops (hoorah), different printed skinny jeans, some socks (mine all shrank), really comfy Michael Kors bronze flats and some really cute boots! I got another workout tank and shorts but wore them this morning on the treadmill for Time Trials.
Then I bought a couple of things for the house – I forgot to photo a cute glass stand with a bird on the lid. I’ll remember to do that once I find something suitably adorable to put under the dome. I found a really cool rustic looking 2 tier wood shelf that I put in the living room, a black metal jewelry stand (that is too tall for my wardrobe so now it’s sitting on my bedside table) and some awesome pantry organizers. So I went hog-wild cleaning up our pantry…so pretty!
Organization is lovely
I moved the cereals up a shelf and this morning 12yo said “Hey mom where’s the cereal”… I said “right in front of your face”. Kids, jeesh!
The best buy of the day was this awesome Lucy jacket I found at TJ Maxx!
Love me some Lucy
I can’t wait for the cold weather to get here so I can use it!
We finished my birthday with dinner from PF Chang’s – oh so good! They are slowly expanding their Gluten Free menu options which is great. We got Sichuan Beef, Mongolian Beef, Dali Chicken, Spicy Chicken and Chicken Fried Rice. I also got their newest menu item: Vietnamese Noodle Salad with Crab. Oh My! Fully recommended! I even had some left over for lunch today. It comes with a citrus dressing that is practically drinkable.
So that was a round up of my birthday celebration. Hope you enjoyed it!
See ya later!
Cathy
Do you prefer to celebrate your birthdays solo or with others?
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