Happy Birthday To Me!

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I have now officially reached 27 years old, and that scares me.  I don’t feel 27.  Heck I don’t really even feel like I’m much over 21.  I sure as heck don’t look it, and I’m constantly correcting people who take one look at me and think I’m a teenager.  Trust me, I’m not complaining about that.  I love that I look much younger than my age.

That is exactly why this is the last birthday where I will be celebrating my true age for awhile!  tee hee hee  My sister in law and I made a pact.  We both look much younger than we are, so that’s the age we’re going to be.  When I finally look my real age, then I’ll celebrate my real age.  Seems fair enough to me!

So, how am I celebrating #27?  I’m going to eat a slice of chocolate caramel tort with my Hubby and send him to bed.  I slept all day, so I’m going to stay up all night working my butt off, then I’ll probably sleep away most of my actual birthday.

I’ve already received my presents from Hubby’s family.  His mom got me a ton of books, so now I’ve got another huge stack piled up ready to read.  I was on the verge of buying a ton because I’ve started cycling through all my books again.

My sister in law got me a ton of cute stuff.  I got an absolutely adorable photo frame that ways “woof” with paw prints all around it.  I printed out my favorite photo of Bubba for it.  She also gave me tons of smell good stuff, a cute red leather makeup bag, and some awesome Clemson stationary.

Now I’m just waiting to see what Hubby gets me.  I hinted around about a couple Seiko watches I want, but I doubt he’ll get me one. He knows I love watches but hate to wear them. They always end up lining the bottom of my jewelry box. He did ask me a few questions about the steam mop I want the other day, so I have a feeling that’s what I’m getting. We’ll just have to wait until he gets home from work to see!

Birthday Shopping

Whew. I got the bathroom mess taken care of, and believe me it was a horrible mess. I washed each load of towels twice because just the thought of those towels being soaked in toilet water freaked me out. I scrubbed the bathroom down twice as well.

We didn’t make it to Home Depot to get a new toilet, so for now I told Hubby to just turn the water off on it, then we can turn it on when we need to use it. We’ve been running around doing so much over the last few weeks that we never make it to the store when we need to.

Hubby said he’s going to definitely set aside time to go shopping without me one day this week. He has to get birthday presents for his dad, sister, and of course ME! He figured out a long time ago not to buy my present early and try to hide it. I always find it, on accident. For awhile he didn’t try to keep my presents a secret. He’d just take me to the store and tell me to pick something out because he can’t keep a secret.

That’s mainly because he always buys me the one thing I talk about the most. This year he’s asked me to make a list of a few things I want, so I know I’ll be getting something off the list but I won’t know exactly what. If I don’t give him the list he’s going to buy me some sexy lingerie and be done with it. I told him I have enough lingerie as it is, so I better get to making that list.

Maybe I should put “toilet” on the list and see if he actually buys one!

Big Stinky Mess

What a weekend this has been! We spent most of the weekend doing funeral stuff because the father of Hubby’s best friend passed away. It’s definitely a sad time, and we lost a wonderful man. We spent Friday night at the funeral home, then yesterday between the funeral and the family’s home. Both nights it was well into the late night when we finally made it back home, and Friday night we came home to a huge mess.

When it rains really hard our septic line gets backed up. We can thank the old irrigation line style sewer pipes for that. The line backs up, and we can’t flush the toilet without it overflowing. It only happens once every few months, and we’ve learned how to work around it, but not this time.

There’s apparently a slow leak in the toilet’s tank. That explains why I’ve thought I’ve heard the toilet running a few times at night, and why our water bill has been so high. When the toilet got backed up this time we weren’t home using it, but the tank was slowly releasing extra water that had no where to go. We came home to a flood out bathroom.

I was up ’til 3am Friday night cleaning up the mess, and I didn’t get even half the soaking wet towels washed. After we took our showers Saturday morning we tossed them all in the tub because we knew we wouldn’t have time to do anything about it yesterday. In my book a funeral trumps soggy wet towels. I can buy new towels.

Today is D-day for towel washing. I’m just waiting on my coffee to kick in so I have enough energy to finish cleaning this mess up. Right now we’ve got the water turned off on the toilet, and we’re only turning it on when we need it. Later this afternoon we’re going to head to Home Depot to pick up a new toilet, and I think I’ll check out some faucets while we’re there. I’ve been trying to convince Hubby to install a new faucet in the bathroom, and now might be my chance. He’ll get it done if we do it all at once. If not, I’ll be waiting months for him to decide he wants to do it.

Still Playing Catch Up

This week is starting to get a little better. Since a lot of my Grandma’s appointments have been canceled due to the gas situation around here, I’ve had a little extra time to get caught back up on things. I’m finally to a point where I’m not stressing as much.

That’s a good thing considering how stressed I’ve been lately. My face is totally showing it. I’ve been thinking about investing in some acne pills because my skin is totally erupting these days. Why can’t I be one of those girls who left the pimples behind with high school?

Anywho, I’ve got my work load settled back down enough to allow me some time to actually post.  There for a while I was wondering if I would be able to keep up with my blogs, or if I’d have to leave them on the back burner for awhile.  I still won’t be posting as much as I used to for awhile, but it looks like I’ll actually have the time to get back into the swing of things.  I won’t be pulling my hair out either, so that’s a good thing.  I already lose enough hair in the shower as it is.  We can thank my thyroid issues for that.