Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Surprises

I don't get surprised easily, like never. These last few days have been full of surprises and I was CLUELESS with them all. Seriously, that never happens with me. Carie got me at work last week with a beautiful lunch with a theme, of course. She HAS to have a theme. The theme was Italy and it was delicious! Homemade lasagna, garlic bread, a cake with the Italian flag, etc. It was awesome!

Today, I took my kids out to lunch to a new little Cuban place and it was yummy. But then out of the blue, my friend, Charity, walked in with a huge bouquet of balloons. I was shocked! She got me!


I got on to facebook for only a few minutes before my internet stopped working and OMG-all the wonderful and surprising birthday wishes! I was shocked and felt like a million bucks! Thank you so much to everyone for such nice thoughts and wishes. It was really cool. I can't wait to be able to read them all.

We went to the Melting Pot tonight for a little celebration and there were some things that took place that weren't surprising:





1. I was so full I thought I'd bust!
2. When the chocolate fondue was empty to most people's standards, my dad and I scrapped the sides of the pot. We weren't done. It was so good and I definitely got my chocolate tooth from my dad.
3. My mother gave me an interesting gift. Her thriftiness is quite amazing, but not surprising at all. You'll have to check out the photo!



Coming home from dinner, we decided to inhale all the helium from the balloons I got at dinner. Hysterical! Then on my doorstep was another "gotcha". Fruit and chocolate are my 2 favorite foods (and ice cream and pizza). Combine the two-chocolate and fruit and what do you get? Healthy, yummy, edible bouquet bliss! Ahhhh, yes!


Ok, so here are some of the amazing gifts I received these last few days. Check out the purple, candle, light thing. That's from my mother. She is the queen of cheap. She usually leaves the price tag on her gifts and they've all been marked down, then down and then down again. This one didn't have a tag, but she did inform me that it was originally $40, but she would NEVER spend that much. So when it went down to 75% off, she snatched it up....lucky ME! If my mother spent anything less on a gift, then there wouldn't be a gift and I wouldn't have anything to laugh about! So these gifts are different and cheap and usually quite ugly, but I love them.


Now this is the BEST gift of all!! Kaity made this in pottery for ME and it's gorgeous!! It's priceless as are my friends! Thank you to so many wonderful people in my life who made this such a great day and a surprising, eventful, wonderful few days. Thanks G F'n D, you are the best surprise of all! xoxoxo

2 comments:

smartsiartsi said...

Wow, love the pottery, Kaity!!!! I want to hear about the process for the glaze. Melting Pot is my favorite place for a celebration dinner...and the celebration of your birth is truly worthy of a chocoholic bender!!! Rock On Local Laura!!
Mary
(beads on a budget at my place?)

Heidi said...

i suck...i didn't know it was your bday!

happy belated.
love the gifts and your mom stories made me laugh!

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