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Hello! I'm having a pretty good day

Today is the one day between my two summer classes, so I got a full hour-long lunch break and got to leave at 4:00!

And even better, I got flowers at work! The flower company screwed up, they were supposed to come tomorrow (on my actual birthday), but they really, really brightened my day! I haven't ever gotten flowers at work and I don't think my coworkers have ever seen my smile so big A huge thank you to ma famille! I left them at work so that I can have a smile when I get there tomorrow too, but I'll take a picture of them sometime soon.

I have to admit that I was seriously thrown off by the flowers. I received a birthday card that said to wait until the third to open and when the flowers came I started to think I might be going a little crazy. I haven't really known what day of the week it is all week, and then everyone thinking today was my birthday, well…. I'm not going to complain about a two day birthday!

To continue the birthday fun Hubs decided to give me my gift tonight as well. I said he could give it to me at breakfast and his response was "but then you won't have time to prepare, you'll already be dressed." That raised an eyebrow The box was too small for any of the possibilities I thought of though.

He did good! And now I get to wear them tomorrow without going through several outfit changes first! I really love them, and they aren't actually a set, either. They're from a shop in town that sells a lot of local artists work, but this is buy a man called Kit Heath who is actually British. Love! I might be following in my mother's footsteps and be a bit of an anglophile. Love British history… but that's another story.

Seriously though, how pretty is that?

He also stopped by Earthfare on his way home from work and bought salad makings and cod for dinner. While he cooked, Ollie and I played

And Hubs and Gypsy read

And then he served me a delightful dinner of spinach salad with sliced walnuts and dried blueberries with balsamic vinegar, honey, and lemon juice.

And cod marinated in white wine and mustard, served over mushroom and herb couscous, with sauteed garlic and onions on top.

He's one of those people who can come up with combinations of spices off the top of his head, so there's no recipe for this. I have leftovers for tomorrow though!

I'm also very excited for dinner tomorrow night. Hubs is taking me to Farm 255! I posted about my love for Farm's food philosophy here, how they have their own farm and grown their vegetables organically while raising their animals on pasture without hormones or antibiotics. Their menu can change daily depending on the day's harvest, but this is one place that I might actually order meat from because I trust them to raise their animals humanely. In any case, I'm in love with the idea of them but have yet to actually eat from them Tomorrow's my chance! I am so, so excited.

Tomorrow my basic psyc class starts, so I'm back to no lunches and working from open to close, but I at least have dinner to look forward to. Goodnight y'all!

Hello! (I sound like Mrs. Doubtfire in my head…)

I can't even remember when I last left off… Sunday morning, was it? Well Sunday evening was absolutely wonderful. I swear, I laugh harder when we see Ann and Brian than any other time. I ate a ton of guacamole, slurped some fabulous daiquiri and margarita, ate some absolutely delicious barbecue chicken, and had some lovely strawberry shortcake for dessert. I was quite full and it was all amazing. I don't regret a moment of it.

Monday was supposed to be spent studying for my final, but instead I had the pleasure of watching the boys mount a 50 inch plasma screen over a fireplace (not ours!), furniture browsed, and watched the Braves whoop some bootay. Also grocery shopped with my bff, which allowed a bit of girl talk, which we don't get enough of. We also watched Up in the Air ("I said it was good, I didn't say it wasn't depressing" – Terry) and had tacos for dinner. Yum!

So yesterday I finally got down to that studying thing (ignore the laptop and textbook in the background of the next photo) and Hubs made me an omelet for dinner! It had mushrooms, spinach, fresh basil, and onions in it, and after I took the picture I topped it with some nooch. The salsa I ate with some chips.

I actually had half the omelet for dinner and the other half for breakfast this morning, Hubs just sort of threw in the last 5 eggs

After a little bit of extra study time I think the test went pretty well. Of course, I felt that way about the last one and did not the great I was hoping for. We'll find out when grades are posted tomorrow.

After a nice, short day at work (again, excuse the perpetual mess that is known as our coffee table), Hubs and I came home to some chips and salsa and later had macaroni and cheese (the broccoli meant to accompany it was older than I thought so got tossed) and a variety of our farmers market squash with a caramelized farmers market onion. Hubs cooked the squash in evoo, nutmeg, curry, cloves, and I don't know what else (he can chime in in the comments, hint hint). It was pretty awesome. And I have more to eat on my salad tomorrow

My back is still not 100% and I'm sort of waiting on clearance before I start exercising again. I may even start with swimming! I can't wait.

But my allergies are starting to act up again and it is burning up in this apartment (hot laptop on lap doesn't help), so I'm signing off!