Happy Birthday to Me!!

Today I turned the big 3-5. My friends tried their hardest to bug me about it, but since they are older than I am it didn't mean much.

This morning my parents made the hour trip (one way) to take me (and Hubby and Peanut) out for breakfast. Unfortunately, we had made plans a week ago to have our cable upgraded to digital this morning so only Peanut and I went. Hubby stayed home to wait for the cable guy who (big surprise) didn't show up until an hour after we had returned from breakfast. My parents were able to visit for a couple of hours...for the first time in about a year.

So, the morning went well. Then I became annoyed with Hubby.

I don't expect much for my birthday and my presents can be very simple. The minimum I ask for (which I explained to Hubby when we were dating) is a cake (small and simple...a cupcake would make me happy), a "Happy Birthday" (can be said by a card) , and a small gift (doesn't need to be much...Hubby cleaning the house would rock my world and probably get Hubby a "gift" himself). So you can imagine my delight when there was no cake, no "Happy Birthday" (verbal or a card...which could have been grabbed from the card box I keep), and Hubby looked at me and said, "Would you like to go shopping today?" "I didn't know what to get you for your birthday!"

Oh...I was SO not happy. We have been married for 10 years and we dated for 5 years before that! And he still doesn't know what to get me????

So I went and sulked. I did try to do it so he didn't know...honestly. Usually, I'd do it out in the open and I'd usually throw in a "fit." Now that I'm mature, I decided to keep it to myself.
I think I did pretty good to...I went into the bedroom and pretended to read a book.

When I was done I told Hubby we could go shopping, but I couldn't think of anything I needed (although I told him there were plenty of things I want). I asked him what he had thought about getting me. He said he wanted to get me a 46" flat panel, LCD television but we'd had a talk about this and couldn't decide if we wanted it mounted or on a credenza and if we wanted to spend all of that money.

So, we went and looked at t.v.s. I am now the proud owner of the above mentioned television (which was a LOT more expensive then planned because they didn't have the one we wanted in stock) and a beautiful credenza.

I am very happy with my gifts (unlike the cake, it doesn't add inches to me...unless I watch it a lot) and, needless to say, so is my hubby. I think the gift was for me (hahaha!).

I wonder what I'll get next year...a convertible?? A new house??? I can't wait!!

Until next time...