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I love my birthday. There really isn’t much more I can say about it other than, I LOVE IT. I’m sure as I get older and older, I won’t as much, but as it stands, I love it right this moment.

Of course, I seem to be the only one enthusiastic about MY day. But that’s ok. I have enough enthusiasm to go around.

The husband has already bought me my bday present—the Barnes & Noble nook. We pre-ordered back in November, but it was suppose to arrive in January, so we trashed it as a Christmas present and made it a birthday present. It arrived on the 30th.

I cannot wait to get my hands on it. But I’m waiting. And patiently. I’m reading a book right now anyway, so I’m good. I did just order a cover for it though. I went with the Jonathan Adler Punctuation Cover. I love the whole punctuation look (although it would have been awesome had it been a & z instead) plus the inside is one of the nicer ones I’ve seen.

So now that my presents are all settled, it’s party planning time. I’m going with the normal birthday girl theme, however, I’m adding a vampire twist (since we all know how much I love vampires!).

For the invitation, I used the doodle’s from Lauren Grier’s At the Bus Stop kit and the pieces from SuzyQ’s And Many More … {Bold} kit. With the addition of some fangs and drops of blood, we have a sweet little vampire party invite:

{*Please forgve the larger invite image. I’m testing out a new auto-resizer and obviously, it doesn’t work too well}

So far I’ve got some cute labels for soda bottles (à la True Blood) and am going to make bloody mary cocktails. I’ve also decided on a red velvet cake, however I’m going to do a cherry filling and cream cheese frosting. I’m using Martha Stewart’s Red Velvet recipe and Paula Deen’s Cream Cheese Frosting recipe. Now to hunt out more vampire-ish goodies. :)

I cannot wait! Last night I read New Moon again. Not my favorite book. I just can’t get into the whole Jacob section. But the movie looks awesome! It really looks like it’s a huge step up from Twilight, visually at least. I’m hoping the acting/direction is a lot better, and the script is more to the book. Those were my biggest gripes with Twilight.

My sister and I are going to a midnight showing. Of course this means I need to travel an hour + to get to her theatre. The movie is at 12:02 and is 2 hours 10 minutes long. Which means I’ll get out of there about 2:15ish. After dropping her at home, I’ll be home around 3:30ish. Note: I am not off the next morning, and the kiddo IS going to school. I will be completely useless Friday morning.

I’m hoping to get to see it again in the theatre. Maybe that Saturday as well.

And after all the New Moon stuff is over {and I will be buying the Blu-ray as soon as possible} it’s time to get cracking with Thanksgiving.

This year we’re having more people, which is great. Finally a big Thanksgiving! There will be nine of us, plus the baby {I’m an aunt!}. I am truly excited. But, there is a lot to do. I’ve got my list together of everything that needs to be done; cleaning, shopping, and made. Now to just get it all done.

And now on with Monday…

Ugh. The kiddo stayed home again today. It started yesterday afternoon—sneezing. Then later in the night he said his throat started to hurt. :( He was up all night, and then finally fell back asleep at 7am. Obviously I can’t send him to school at 8:30 then. So, he stayed home. Going to have the husband take him to the doctor later.

I love the fall and this kills me that he’s been so sick throughout most of it. All my fall plans down the drain. I wanted to go to the local nursery to check out the big corn stalk maze, along with their pumpkin bowling.  Now we’re stuck inside. Bleh. And of course this means he’s going to get me sick, and I always end up worse than him and I also just got over being sick. It’s like the flu shot mocks me:

Flu Shot: Ha ha ha. You’re protected from the flu—but not from the cold!
Me: I know.
Flu Shot: So now you’ll suffer a cold every other week for blocking the flu!
Me: I know.

On a positive note, when the kiddo gets sick, he’s not one to be mopey. So he’ll act all normal, just be coughing and sneezing all over the place. Wait, that shouldn’t be positive should it?

Sigh. Time for more coffee.

Today is 30 days until The Twilight Saga: New Moon comes out. I’ve got my tickets already! Yay! My sister, her friend and I are going to a midnight showing. I cannot wait! New Moon is the least of my favorites in the books, but from what I’m seeing in trailers and clips, I am going to love the movie.

I am beyond excited about this movie. HUGE HUGE Twilight buff, but even I’ll admit Twilight was not a good movie. It looked like one of those B movies. New Moon is looking to be much, much more!

First of all, I’m trying out a new blog theme. I’m wanting to try my hand on creating my own, so bought a cheapy one to dissect. ;) I love the whole scrapbook look, so that’s a plus.

And now back to Monday. I am FREEZING. It’s currently 49° out and I am cold. It has defeated me—the heat is on. :(

Didn’t start out as a good day either. I didn’t want to get up, the kiddo didn’t want to get off the couch to get ready, THEN he decided to grumble all the way to the bus, “I do NOT want to get on the bus. I do NOT want to go to school.” Fun times!

So now here I sit, trying to work, while freezing. Glass tops for desks are not all they are cracked up to be. ;)

Brian is out cold, should be up putting together the darn kitchen ‘table’ that we got at Ikea. The kitchen is not an eat in kitchen and it’s been murder finding a thin enough table to go against the wall. Well low and behold, we found one! Only, it’s been out of stock forever. So they finally got them in and I can’t be more excited! Finally a place to put the pots and pans when I use the oven!

It’s nothing fantastic or even beautiful, but it definitely fits our needs (with added drawer space too!):

Later today I have to go pick up the fundraiser/food. Our school system does Market Day and I’ve ordered a couple of times now. They had some neat potatoes I wanted to try, so today is pick-up day. Don’t really want to go out, but hey, I’d go anywhere for taters. ;)