Thank you, Thank you!

I had such a fun birthday on Tuesday - first my co-workers had a card for me and bought my lunch, then a bit later my at-first-customer now customer-buddy-fellow-grey's-watcher Amy stopped by with her friend Denise and brought these:



Cupcakes! And not just any cupcakes, some of the best vanilla cupcakes I've ever had. I shared them with my co-workers - they loved them too. See the cute box they are sitting on? She found a cupcake holder box at Michaels - so cute! I may have to find some so I could more easily deliver to S at school.

And there was even more loveliness....



A really cute stripey bag, lovely card, cute blue and brown notecards and yarn! This yarn is the peaches and cream yarn used in the Mason-Dixon Knitting book. Amy and I had talked about this yarn a week or so ago, specifically the fiesta colorway - on the left - (although I didn't know the name of it at the time) and she remembered! She's so nice. Anyway, I'm thinking that the fiesta colorway is asking to be the ballband washcloth(s) from the same book, and the rainbow-ish yarn may be hoping to grow up to be a garterlac dishcloth from Criminy Jickets. Thank you so much again Amy!

Also that afternoon, my(our) daughter S, a junior at UW, called to wish me a happy birthday. We are all four planning on going out this weekend, but it was great hearing from her too!

The day was somewhat hectic, but when I got home, my husband had started dinner. We had gone through the cookbook the previous evening to see if there was something that was doable enough for him, and that sounded festive-ish for a birthday. We all three decided that "Ginger Flank Steak with Wasabi Smashed Potatoes and Seared Savoy Cabbage" sounded really good. This was really good - we didn't do the savoy cabbage though - what is a savoy cabbage and where in the heck do you find one? - we had a green salad instead. I picked up "M@rie Ant*nette" at B*bstr on the way home from work and we dined and viewed the evening away.

After the movie, I got to open presents - John M@yer's new CD, and a cake pedestal. I've never had one, I've always used a dinner plate but have really wanted one. This one is nice and simple. Plans are in the works to make a cake over the weekend.

P is now driving, so he went to SurLaTable and got a silicone whisk so we don't scratch our pots and pans. Even more impressive, he did this on his own - I had mentioned I'd like one - without prodding and did the errand a day early!

Other phone calls came from family throughout the day, so I feel celebrated!