Owwww- I Like a Bit O' Cake!!!!!!!

Talk about a day of ups and downs...


Yesterday I got up having my day all planned out.
Tradition in our family is on your birthday you get to do whatever you want- within reason- all day long.
Let's just say it didn't happen yesterday for me.

So anyway, I got up thinking Paulius and I would get to spend the day together..... but he was asleep and I couldn't rouse him to go do things with me. I'm not one to sit around sulking when things don't go the EXACT way I planned- so I set off on my own for my Birthday Adventure.
First I went to my eldest son's house. He told me for my birthday he was going to check all the fluids in my car for me so I wouldnt have to be bothered with doing it. If I had had time he would have changed the fluids and filters as well but I had other plans. So insted of him doing it right away- we decided he and his wife, Marie, and their baby boy, Nicholas, would ride with me up to see the new baby and his mama.
So we loaded up and off we went to Travelers rest to spend some time with them.
We got halfway there and I saw the car was almost on empty- so I pulled into the station to re-fuel.
Well my sweet son got out to pump it and when he was finished he got gas all over his hand...........
I know- small thing- just go in the restroom and wash it off....no can do- it was closed and so no hand wash.

Ah well, we rode on........Poor Frank and me BOTH have been having some serious tooth problems in the past couple of months.......I think stress has a lot to do with it. Anyway, we get to Kathy and Lil C's house and the traveling nurse pulls up wanting to weigh the baby and do a routine house-call on the new mommy. So we go thru all that.

Kathy got some LOVELY photos of the baby done at SEARS of all places! They are SO cute!
Anyway, after the nurse finally left we got to visit for a couple hours before Kathy started getting tired and we decided to leave so she could rest. I got to hold the baby and feed him and put his clothes on him........I didn't get to change him tho......he was too busy eating to mess up a diaper for Nana. But Kathy gave me a lovely framed collage of her maternity photos for my birthday!
I cant wait to get the new baby pics as well!

My poor Frank just got depressed while we was up there at his brothers house....he said it just wasn't right that Clay wasn't there with us.
I agreed.

I was going to go by the cemetary as well but I decided to wait a few days for that visit. Frank was already upset and I didn't want to add to his stress anymore that day.

So we went down to my daughter, Julies, house.
She lives about 40 miles from me and I hardly ever get to see her anymore with our schedules being so in conflict! And to make it worse- I totally missed the exit to her house and I drove nearly 10 miles out of my way before I realized what I had done...and had to backtrack.....
But we had a nice visit anyway.......
Only Julie had went to the dentist last week and she was hurting as well.
She's usually the one who makes me a birthday cake, she wasn't feeling well enough to bake so I didn't get one this year.
I was sad........ as Paulius says"it's just not the same without a cake with a candle in it."
And it's true.

So I was thinking that it was Sunday for some strange reason, and we got started home right at 4:30 PM........and got caught in the 4 oclock traffic rush........which lasted so long it lead to us being caught in the 5 oclock traffic rush as well.
Then my nerves were shot and I could feel an anxiety attack coming on so I stopped at the pharmacy to get my script refilled- which took about 20 mins -and when we came out it was just after 6PM which led to us being caught in the 6 oclock traffic rush as well.
I had left home at noonish- and had left a note for Paulius saying I was going on to do my stuff and I would be home by 6......so I had to have Marie call him and let him know I was getting ready to drop them off and I would be right home.
Well when we got back to Frank and maries Frank wanted to put the fluids in the car so I waited while he checked everything out and filed it up.......He said I still need a couple quarts of oil and a quart of Tranny fluid but I didn't have it with me , nor the time to go buy more, so it'll have to wait a while.

Anyway, I went home after that and Paulius was waiting at the door and kissed me and sang happy birthday to me-MY STYLE!!!
That was GREAT!
He said he was waiting for me to come home to start dinner- but I wanted to go out to eat. So we went out to Applebee's Bar & Grill for dinner and it was great. BUT- I decided that since I didn't get cake I was going to get dessert- and it was just a bit too much!!!!!
But then we came home and watched a movie-Oceans Thirteen- which I fell in sleep in the middle of.

I got several cards, three people phoned me and sang to me- and I got LOADS of e-mail wishes...........but......


I still want my CAKE!
Yeah- I'm spoiled......But-
It's ALL ABOUT ME on my Birthday!!!!!!

I Am Goddess & Therefore Decree-It WILL Be A GOOD Week!

Okay- I'm over being pissed off now.

I have actually made some progress in the past few days .......even with all the chaos that is my life.

I have a migraine ATM so I'm making this short and sweet so I can go to bed and rest before I start getting sick.

Over the past week I have actually planned my Darling Daughter-in-Law Kathy's Baby shower menu and got it all lined up. I also managed to crochet a baby afghan for Baby Clay who is due next month. It's Baby Blue, Baby Green, Soft white and Soft yellow and has the pastel colors done in the fringe on two edges. I started last Wednesday and finished the fringe tonight while I was at work in between rounds. For my first project I would say it turned out rather nicely. It sure went faster than I thought it would. Let's just say I figured I would be finishing it up as the guests were arriving on the 3rd of Feb for the Baby Shower. So I was PLEASANTLY surprised when I finished it this soon.

I also have been trying to decide what kind of cake to BAKE for Paulius for his birthday this month. And I finally hit on the one I want to MAKE for him. (Yes from SCRATCH- Last year I BOUGHT him a cake from the Ingles Bakery and it did NOT go over well- He called it a FAKE CAKE. Yeah, I usually MAKE Birthday Cakes from scratch- but I wasn't feeling good that week and decided to be a slacker-believe me- it WON'T happen again!!)
;-)
It was hard to decide on tho, because all he wants is a cake with his name on it and a few candles.
Then he decided he wanted a cake with the WoW Alliance crest on it. I looked at that one and told him straight off that THAT would NOT be the one he got. Maybe NEXT year when I have had a few months to figure out how to create all those different designs for it.
Then he saw a Darth Vader cake he liked.
And a Chewbacca cake he liked.
And an Optimus-Prime cake he liked. So I took matters into my own hands and looked at several designs I thought he might like and finally found one that wasn't too complicated- but at the same time didn't look terribly amature-ish and cartoon-ish- something I might be proud to say- I made that.
So now I have decided- and we went to the shop and I bought the color tints I needed to do the icing.
I hope he likes it. I think it will be fun- and a HUGE surprise.