Out With The Band
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I can’t tell you the last time I had as much fun as I had last night. My father-in-law’s in a new band, and they had a last rehearsal/private show for family and friends before they play their first live gig in a couple weeks.
My FIL is an awesome drummer, and the band he was in forever broke up about 3 years ago. I haven’t heard him play in over 2 years, so I made a point to be there last night. I’m so glad I did! The new band plays southern rock & blues, and they are awesome. I can’t wait to hear them playing out.
I wanted to stay and enjoy more, but after 3 1/2 hours we left at 11:30pm. I was so tired I just couldn’t hold my head up anymore. I fell asleep on the way home, and I woke up long enough to pull my clothes off and throw my robe on. I felt like total crap with way too much head congestion and cold chills, so I wrapped up in my robe with 4 blankets and passed out hard. I woke up at 11am this morning sweating like crazy, but the head congestion and chills are still there.
Now I’ve got it 80 degrees in here, and I’m still wrapped up in 2 blankets and my robe with a floor heater next to me. I’ve been steaming myself with a cup of Tangerine Cheesecake Herbal Tea, and trying to get rid of some of this head congestion. The aches set in this morning, but I feel more cold like than flu-ish. I’m not running a fever, and I’m sneezing like crazy. Hopefully I can head it off before it gets too much worse.
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Doing Some Shopping
Now that I’ve got plenty of Birthday cash in my pocket I’m hell bent on finishing my Christmas shopping before the end of November. Hubby finally gave me a list of things he wants. Of course, a PS3 is the very first thing on the list. I’m working on that, and I’m trying to luck up on one at a Black Friday sale. I doubt that’s going to happen though, so I’ll probably end up paying full price.
The other thing he wants is a new watch. I was looking at some Victorinox swiss army watches that I know he’d love, but if I get him a PS3 I cannot afford to get him an expensive watch, too. I spotted one I really love though. It’s a men’s watch, but I’d deal with big and bulky just because I love it so much. It’s orange! Of course it also has a $525 price tag, so I can keep dreaming.
Bummed Out
I’m kind of bummed this morning. First, if you haven’t noticed, Everyday Randomness is down. It has been down since early yesterday morning and will be down until later this evening when we get the server straightened out.
It’d take too long to go into detail about it all, but the server crashed big time. It was caused by some software that didn’t install quite right, and now everything is all screwed up. Luckily the entire server backs up every morning at 4am (and I keep my own personal site backups as well), and the crash happened just after the backup. Everything is being restored back to it’s state at 4am yesterday morning, but it’s taking quite a long time.
The major downside is that I host a few other bloggers. Luckily they all understand that things like this happen from time to time. Hopefully it won’t be happening again anytime soon.
Other than that I’ve just been bummed out since last night. I feel like I have a right to be. When it comes to my birthday there’s 1 non-family person that I expect should remember my birthday.
That would be my best friend.
It’s not hard for her to remember. Her son’s birthday is the day after mine, and we talk about that all the time. She’s mentioned my birthday to me quite a few times this week, so when it rolled around I expected her to be the first person to send me a Happy Birthday note. She almost always makes a big deal out of it.
She makes such a big deal of it that it worried me when I didn’t hear from her all day. I even sent her a text wanting to know if she wanted to go out with us for a drink, and I got nothing in return. So, I finally got to a point where I was so worried I text her at 10pm last night wanting to know if she’s ok. It’s not like her to not text me at least a gabillion times everyday.
She wrote back around 10:15pm that she was fine, out hanging out with some friends, and pretty drunk off her ass. I know it shouldn’t piss me off, but it does. Of all days to up and decide to not speak to me at all. Yeah, I feel pretty pissy over it all. After my parents, my sister, and my Hubby I expect my best friend to be the one other person who at least says Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday To Me!
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!
