The not so big 2-4

Today is my birthday.  My birthday is generally always Memorial Day weekend-ish so I can always find strange things to do.  This weekend Mike and I are thinking about taking the ferry to the Lake Erie Islands.

My birthday didn't start out unusual.  Took Uther out, had some coffee and a bagel thin, went across the sidewalk to the apartment's gym, but when I got back I got a voicemail from a flower company saying they had a delivery and no one was home.  I took a ridiculously quick shower before they came back and this is what I found:

 

My family (mom and step father) sent me a flower "cake" and chocolates.  How sweet.  Here I've been bitching and moaning all week about my family disconnect and I'm once again slapped in the face by the opposite. I know better.   I've never seen a flower "cake", it's quite neat isn't it?  

 

I put the ribbon that came on the box on Uther, he looked so charming all day.  Once again, he was so cute it just wasn't fair. I flitting about the rest of the day responding to texts and nothing exciting until Mike came home with: 

Coldstone Creamery Cupcakes!  I've wanted to try these for a long time.  I only ate the oreo one thus far, but it was delicious. We took off to a shopping center/town that people talk a lot about.  It's been raining for a couple days so walking around wasn't too extensive.  I bought a $3 book at Books-a-Million and we went to Bar Louie for dinner.  Never been there, but it was actually pretty good.  I didn't take any pictures because the food presentation wasn't amazing...but it tasting good.  It was a little too loud in there for me, but we sat next to this bridal shower....that was fun to watch.  They played a game of naming as many famous couples as they could...I realized I would be really bad and strange at that game.  I mostly came up with political figures and Tim Burton with Helena Bonham Carter.  Oh! and "Johnny Depp and that french model"
There's a running store in this shopping town and they must have been having a group run thing, I admire people who will run in the rain.  Serious rain, not a drizzle. Mike and I came back and I lit my four birthday candles.  Mike sang me happy birthday

I have now settled in with a bottle of wine I bought back in December specifically for my birthday! It's from a beloved winery in Illinois called Acquaviva...phenomenal wines. I have saved this one bottle of my favorite since before we moved from Illinois to Ohio.  

mmmm how about a little vintage HIM for my birthday:

I'm not sure what does this to me...but after a couple glasses of wine...if a sexy ville appears before me I seem to loose my clothing...it's like magic.