Birthday Bash

Yesterday was my friend (and co-worker) Bonnie's birthday. She turned 60! I do not know if she appreciates me sharing this with the entire blogging world, but she probably doesn't care since she doesn't know my peeps who read this :) When she came to work yesterday, I noticed something different about her - first a smell, and then HER HAIR! She sprayed gray color hair spray on her hair for the day! It was crazy! And, it smelled really crazy - not bad, just stifling (like stifling is not bad...). She had a princess crown to wear and a special necklace. We went to lunch for her special day at On the Border (not my favorite, but okay), and we had almost 30 people from our office there - we were able to sit out on the patio, and it was beautiful! AND, we all thought we were going to have to pay $7 per person, but then, Russ (Bonnie's boss and our CEO) paid for our lunch! After returning from lunch, we had carrot cake (homemade by me), red velvet cake (homemade by Malissa), and brownies. Malissa made one set of brownies (with nuts), and I made one set without nuts - but they were disgusting. I bought the family style, by accident, which I thought was going to be a good thing since hello, we have a lot of people here at work. Alas, something went wrong - how something can wrong with brownies out of a box, I cannot tell you. But, they were basically like bricks. They only smelled a little burned so I did put them out, but I encouraged people NOT to take them - I have made pretty decent desserts for work, and I don't want to get a bad reputation for bringing sick food. Anyway, the whole office gave her a gift card for a vacation she's taking with her daughter soon. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BONNIE!

(Bonnie, Malissa, Bethany, and Patty at lunch)

(Bethany, Bonnie, and Malissa at CAKE time!)

One more update, on my sickness. Thank you, Clifton, for suggesting I was pregnant - I am NOT. I could see how you might have thought that, but mainly, I am just a complainer type personality. I am feeling better, but still, if I eat a lot at once, I feel pretty disgusting. After eating On the Border yesterday for lunch and then eating the desserts we had, I did not eat again for the rest of the day - and I felt gross.

On yeah, another update on Lan. Lan was gone last night for the SEC baseball championship games with his dad in Alabama. I have to tell these things after the fact in case a killer is reading this and would have come into our house last night and gotten me (I'm not joking, people). I did so great last night!! I went to bed at 9:50pm and went to sleep - I mean, I was a little jumpy, but the night was a success! I forgot to start the dishwasher, which I like to do when Landon's gone, and then I was mad because of it, but I was already locked in my room so I couldn't come out again - or I'd have to check things again! I do have routines that I do when he's gone, and they help me feel safe (because I'm OCD) - like locking the bedroom door and putting a pillow in front of it so I can't see out the crack at the bottom. I'll be glad to see my husband today - back where he belongs - but I'm glad he could get away and have fun for a little bit.