Well, it’s my birthday today.
It’s shaping up to be a fabulous one, too. It’s not even 9:00 am here, and I’ve already received various illustrated homemade and store-bought greeting cards, a new copy of When Harry Met Sally on DVD which is one of our All Time Favorite Movies, and a $150 gift card to our local Borders/Seattle Coffee, where I like to go at least once a week to get some alone time. I like to browse through the shelves, find some new books, and then read in the coffee shop with a decaf vanilla latte. I’ve been slowly blowing through our retirement funds doing this over the past year, but now I’ll be able to spend a few guilt-free hours buying books with my fabulous gift card. RegularDad truly rocks.
I’ve also received a Very Special Ballet Performance from my 4-year-old. She had planned to dance to one of the Nutcracker pieces, but we couldn’t find the CD anywhere, so we used our new soundtrack to Shrek the Third, and she danced to Smash Mouth’s All Star instead. Truly inspiring, let me tell you.
Then I talked to RegularDad on my cell phone while I ate my breakfast. RegularDad had to get over to the new house early this morning for an appliance delivery. He called over here to ask me to bring the vacuum cleaner and then started pretending that the call kept dropping out, like those funny commercials. Such as:
RegularDad: Okay, look, the real reason I’m calling is that we need to talk about something and it just can’t wait until you get here. It’s too important. The thing is—
…..
— and that’s how I really feel about it.
He did a few variations on this, which got me laughing pretty hard. So I’ve already had one really great belly laugh on my birthday. And all this before snack time. 
Finally, the upcoming piece-de-resistance later this morning is the delivery of a BRAND SPANKIN’ NEW STAINLESS STEEL DISHWASHER over at the new house. I’ll post some pictures later, and you can well imagine that I’ll be wiping away tears of joy and relief as I snap those shots. Then I’ll come back here and post them and then I’ll put on the old rubber gloves and wash some dishes by hand, knowing it’s the last week I’ll be doing that for (hopefully) years to come.
So far, 39 rocks!
Happy birthday!
Happy regular Birthday!
Happy Birthday! I hopped over here from Robinella’s and now I must know- Is there an Irregular Dad?
What a fabulous birthday! It’s also my little man’s birthday!
Happy Birthday!
*sigh*
That’d be me, Andie. But thewelltrainedkitchen hopes you have a wonderful birthday, too, and is especially excited about the dishwasher, being a kitchen and all.
Happy Birthday!!!!
You know, I’m one of those people who has a nice, quiet, state of the art dishwasher - but still washes every single dish by hand.
I hope you’re better than I am at breaking old habits. My mom refused to let me use the dishwasher 20 years ago, and I think I’m still broken. *SIGH*
Oh yeah, I forgot this isn’t about my hangups … have a great rest of your birthday. So far so good!
Happy, Happy Birthday to you!!
Let’s all sing along now, shall we?
::put another wrinkle in your birthday suit:::
I know you’re moving to a place that you plan to stay in for awhile, put down roots and all that… but I hate moving. I’d rather go through labor.
Happy Birthday! Enjoy the dishwasher!
Ok, I was just gonna say “Happy Birthday!” and that’s all. But since there’s another Heather (*wave*), and since she already said just that exactly, the message I got was “Duplicate message detected: It looks like you’ve already said that!” *I* didn’t, but I suppose if I were a computer program meant to look for that sort of thing, I might be confused too.
So - Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday to you!
Love,
RegSis, RegBIL and RegNieces
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
(((((Regular Mom))))))))
Thanks, everyone. You all are so sweet.
Andie, you’re not just a kitchen, you’re a RegularKitchen.
Sandy, well, we’ve got RegularDad, but that’s not to say that he’s never been irregular. Heck, we’ve all been a little bit irregular, right?
L: Tell your little man I said Happy Birthday, and don’t worry, as you get older, having a birthday on a “lesser” holiday becomes not such a big deal. In fact, a New Years Eve birthday rocks, because let’s face it: there’s ALWAYS a party on your birthday!
Heather and Heather: Thanks, and I gotta say, for a while there I admit to being a bit confused as to how many Heathers were here. Now I know there’s two. It’s kinda like that ridiculous movie from the ’80s: “the Heathers”. Except there were more than two. And they weren’t so nice. And you guys are really nice. Which means this really isn’t like the movie at all, I guess. (ahem…MOVING ON…)
Mom #1: I can’t quite say I’ve ever come down with a case of “I Think I’ll Wash ‘Em By Hand Anyway” but it’s good to be informed. We’ll begin research for the cure in 2008.
Ami and Sara, and Robinella, thanks for the happy wishes.
And RegularSis…um…Shouldn’t that be 1 RegularNiece and 1 RegularNephew? What is they say that goes first? Memory or gender identification?
Yeah, I know, I know…I’m only one year younger than you now. I guess I’m just gonna have to kick back and enjoy Still Being In My 30’s.
Have a Happy New Year, everyone.
2008 looks to be a good year around here.
Yes, I’m late for a very important date.
I couldn’t get on the computer this morning due to people needing me and then we left early evening for a get together. So forgive for being 1 hour and 26 late wishing you a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
nipping in here late to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY. and to tell you that I think 40 is one of the very, unexpectedly, finest places to be as a woman. so not only are you in for a good year this year, you get a good one next year too! : )
Happy Belated Birthday! Hope you have a wonderful year and many more to come.
Happy Happy Birthday from the Chilis crew..
We wish it was our birthday
So we could party to HEY~!~
See a job can come in handy sometime…..
Thanks everyone!
Happy Birthday! Merry Christmas & happy New Year!
Your home is looking good!