It's my birthday!

That's pretty much all I have to say about that.

Tomorrow's the big day

So tomorrow is my birthday! I'm going to be 28. Can you believe it? It seems like it's been such a long time...and then I remember that my Grandmother live to be 87. I've got time. I'm just getting started here!

So in honor of my birthday, this post will serve 2 purposes:

A. To tell you what I want for my birthday

B. To start the new feature that was a staple of my old website (OLD, OLD website) - the Top 10 (or so) list.

So today, on the eve of the 28th anniversary of my birth, I present

My Top 10 Birthday Wishlist

10. Job security - we have to cut our budget at work in light of a recent HUGE development and I am hoping that, should we have to cut jobs, it's not a "last in, first out" policy

9. Car - to be fixed by the end of this week rather than the beginning of next

8. Vince - to stop acting like a butt and arguing with me every Monday night at Trivia. Having the same birthday does not make us besties!

7. Health - I have been saddled with terrible headaches and light-headedness lately. I'd really like that to go away.

6. Alcohol - to be able to have a full beer without feeling like I'm going to die the next day (I have developed an "allergy" to alcohol - it's tough to explain, so let's just call it an allergy)

5. Clean House - guess I gotta work on that one a little more myself. My house isn't dirty...it's just messy and not completely "finished" yet. But we have the spare bedroom set up, finally!

4. The Cookie Dough that my sister promised me 2 months ago and that is still sitting in her freezer!

3. Date Night with the boyfriend. We haven't had the time (and in some cases the energy) to have our official monthly date.

2. Rest - or rather the feeling of being rested. That's been missing lately. Why am I so tired?!?!

and finally...

1. Money - I mean who doesn't want money. I actually just want to get the details of my teaching contract worked out so that I will know how much money I will be making.

It's almost my birthday

I have been very good this year about not publicizing the countdown to my birthday (7 days, by the way).

I apparently became an adult somewhere in this 27th year of my life... I asked my mom for a carpet cleaner for my birthday!

So anyway, about my birthday being a few days away...
It's restaurant giveaway time! So far (all today actually), I have received the following offers:
- Free stir-fry at Bd's Mongolian Grill
- Free burger at Red Robin
- Free (non-fajita) entree at Moe's Southwest Grill
- Free dessert at Chili's (mmmm...molten lava cake)
- Free entree at Fox and Hound
- Free handcrafted burger at Ruby Tuesday

My next week will be full of good eating!

Heels and humidity

I bought a pair of Joan & David "Circa" heels a few months a go. They were on clearance at DSW and I had a gift certificate and a connection with an employee discount. So needless to say, they were worth every penny even if I did buy them a half size too big.

They look a lot like this:

Except that the Mary Jane-esque buckle is closer to the toe.

I worried about how they would fit and the first time that I wore them to work, they clicked on my feet like flip-flops and almost caused me to fall. However, they were so darn cute that I still thought they were worth evey penny.

The last couple times that I have worn them, the temperature and humidity has been just right so that if I don't wear anything between my bare feet and the shoes, they don't move.

So, I guess what I am saying is:

Thanks humidity for making my shoes fit!