*all dressed up with somewhere to go! =D
hello my lovely blog readers!!
i turn 37 today!! i love the odd number years,
because i love odd numbers in general. but
i’ve been mooching up the birthday loving all over
the internets rather shamelessly. i joke that i have
Summer Birthday Complex. you know. when you get
your lockers decorated on your birthday and balloons
and presents from your bff? me? everyone was gone on
august 29th every summer! no cupcakes to pass out,
no decorated lockers, no love notes from boys. okay,
perhaps the last bit is unrelated. =) OR NOT.
this week was quite a week. my mom visited
and she bought me pretty pewter flats that make my
feet look like boats. and we ate and shopped a lot!
i love my mommy! =)
i turned in my final line edits to my fantabulous
editor. i am so happy with Fury of the Phoenix and
am looking forward to doing copy edits next. we’re
so close!! very exciting.
then…well, then despite other things on my to do list,
i simply napped and read for pleasure a lot. like a lot.
and on saturday, i had my fun secret craft class and
finished another project. had a lovely lunch by myself
with k. a. stewart’s debut, A Devil in the Details. a great
read so far. i also tore through nicole peeler’s sequel
in her tempest series, Tracking the Tempest. so much fun!
i’ll be doing a giveaway soon. and read n. k. jemisin’s
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, which was fantastic!
all recommended. and all read this week! =)
then i had a lovely birthday date night and actually
took the time to dress up. (i usually opt for casual and
lazy, ha!) so note before birthday dinner foto above. =D
the best part of our lovely dinner was the dessert. the
“vietnamese alfogato” was condensed milk ice cream with
coffee nibs, vanilla mochi cubes, drizzled in espresso with
a side of cinnamon fritters, which were basically fresh mini
churros. SO GOOD! i already dug in as usual before taking a foto. =)
today was a nice birthday brunch and reading by the sea.
more relaxation. the bubs are home with me for two weeks
before school starts! then it truly is the end of summer.
and how fast it flew, i can only measure it by revisions i’ve
done. haha! i can’t wait for you to read Fury of the Phoenix! <3
13 Comments
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, Cindy! Am looking forward to Fury of the Phoenix :)
Happy birthday! Umm, make that belated birthday greetings! : )
Happy birthday!! That dessert looks scrumptious. I have a March birthday, but i never got love notes from boys =(
Happy Birthday!!
Happy birthday again, fellow Virgo! Oh, and you clean up rather nicely. :)
Btw, I’m guilty of that ALL the time. I’m usually halfway through my meal before I remember I had planned on taking pics. LOL!
thanks everyone!
abby, me neither. i was a total late bloomer.
david, we virgos all clean up nice. it’s one of our many superpowers. haha! and thank you!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! You look absolutely gorgeous in that photo. And I’m totally coveting those cinnamon fritters! They look sooo yummy. :)
*slips lena a fiver*
uh, yeah, i look GREAT don’t i? thanks! =D haha!
and those fritters were SOOOOO GOOOD!
Happy! Happy!
Oh, stop, like you’d have to pay me to say that!
But…since I have the fiver now, maybe I could track down some of those tasty fritters. lol
Happy belated birthday! REALLY looking forward to the sequel. I’m actually going to read Silver Phoenix again here soon, after I finish my current book :)
Chiming in with a belated Happy Birthday!