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This past weekend was full of fun so let’s just jump right in, shall we? First let me start off with Friday at work. Laura had a special birthday surprise sent to my office, balloons and chocolate! Does she know how to make my day or what?!?! Friday I went to lunch with my friend Courtney, and after work I came home and cleaned the house and finished reading the ninth book in the Stephanie Plum series. Saturday – I got up bright and early and met my sister in Trussville for a little morning shopping. We walked around TJ Maxx and Target and then went up to the Pinnacle for a few minutes to do some birthday shopping for my niece who’s birthday is today! (Happy Birthday Haven!!!!!) She gave us some cantaloupes out of her garden and my birthday present. A curling iron, iron guard spray and three nail polishes! Can’t wait to try them all out! Around noon I headed home to meet up with Chris to start the birthday celebrations. He took me to pick up my birthday present: My first Kate Spade purse to join the collecting 🙂   Look how fun the inside is!   Then we headed to World of Beer. Duh! I ordered the Tater Tot Nachos and they had a new Strawberry Cider on tap, Crown Valley Strawberry. It was delicious! I also tried to Trim Tab 88 which was amazing as well!   One of our friends, Jeff, happened to be there! Our favorite crew was working on Saturday, I snuck a picture with Charles. Our friends Lanney and Diane came down from Huntsville to meet up with us while we were there. When we were heading out, Destiny left me a sweet message:   We headed over to Southern Kitchen for dinner. I ordered the Jackson Burger that has bacon and pimento cheese. For an appetizer we had cajun angels, which are shrimp wrapped in bacon with a cajun sauce. Delicious!   After dinner we walked over to the Westin, ordered some drinks at Todd English and took them up to the roof top to chat. Sunday – We got the grocery shopping out of the way first thing Sunday morning, then headed to Game Stop to pick up a few games. We got Super Putty, Trial Fusions and the remastered Duck Tails. We checked out Bargain Hunt while we were out, and then headed to lunch at J Alexander’s! I ordered the Alex Salad and Potato Soup.   After lunch we went to the Galleria and I picked up the Urban Decay Setting Spray and my birthday gift from Sephora, then Chris took me to get us a slice of Cookie Cake to take home because it isn’t a birthday without cookie cake!!! It was Delicious!!!!!   We also stopped by 2nd and Charles and scored a great deal on Mario Tennis for our Gamecube. Sunday evening Chris’s parents stopped by to visit for a little while. We watched a little of pre-season football and tried out the Ducktails game, which was super fun until we got stuck on a part that neither of could get past and we gave up. We also watched a few reruns of Big Bang while we ate some black bean nachos then headed to bed. I had a packed weekend full of lots of fun!!!! All the text messages, facebook book and other social media shout outs were wonderful. I sure do know a lot of people that know how to make a girl feel extra special! Just like that, birthday weekend is over and it is back to reality!

Favorite Song: 50 Cent – In Da Club – Because it’s my birthday! Duh! (Well, Sunday)

Favorite Moment: I met up with some of my favorite blogging pals last night at Jack Brown’s Beer and Burgers! Bloggers – check, burgers -check, beer – check check. What more can you freaking ask for?

Favorite Drink: I have been trying to only have diet sodas out at restaurants when I really want one. I had slipped in to a horrible habit of having them at work again and I needed to stop. I had replaced diet coke with the Zevia ones but still. I was obsessed with the Twinings Blackcurrent tea last year and I fell in love with it all over again. I like to steep it then pour it over ice. I don’t even miss the diet coke.

Favorite Funnies:

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!

–I was scrolling through my Facebook feed last week and saw all the first day of school pictures. Then I started paying attention to grades and I was like “hmm she is starting 7th grade. Wait…7th?!?! WTF???? I remember when she was  born!” Then I started doing the math to check to see if that was right…well shit! I feel so old….

–I don’t really like wine. There, I said it. *And all of blog land gasps* Sorry winos I like beer and fruity cocktails. Wine makes me sleepy and usually has a bad aftertaste for me.But just think, if we hang out, you can have all of the wine.

–I eat cupcakes for the icing, I can’t lie. I could do without the cake part, give me all the icing! The cake just gets in my way.

–While we are on the topic of cake, if any of you are wondering what kind of cake to get me for my birthday it would be a cookie cake. Yum! Just call me the cookie monster. Cookie cake is my favorite.

–I feel we should always live by the words of the cookie monster. Freaking genius.

–I often ponder what has happened to our society and how future generations are going to conduct themselves. I was in the break room rinsing my dish in the sink and an intern sighs loudly, and rudely says excuse me as he is moving me out of the way and reaches over me into a cabinet to get a cup. He then proceeds to stay in my way to get some ice. I stood there dumbfounded for a second wondering if that really did just happen. I loudly said “What the fuck?” As he walked away.

Like he didn’t even wait, he just moved me. I was two seconds away from being done. And he is like 12 (ok maybe 20 or 21) but respect your elders dude.So rude!!!!!!

Confessions in ecards:

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I think it is time for another edition of Sh!t Chris Says!!!!

–I played the Ariana Grande song “Problems” for Chris in the car one morning because he hadn’t heard it yet and I thought he would like it because he likes Iggy. He responds with:”Is this subliminal messaging? Are you trying to tell me something?” right after she sings “One less problem without ya.”

–Olivia runs into our room and under the bed. I am pleading with her and asking her to come out. Chris says, “The only thing to get her out is bells. She doesn’t understand English, that’s probably her worst flaw.”

–We are driving home with a pizza from Fox’s. Chris says, “I am going to murder that pizza with my mouth!”

–We are driving through a shady spot in town. I see a cop ahead and let Chris know. He responds with, “Good eye, but the cops aren’t going to get you for speeding through here. In fact, they probably encourage it.”

–We are at World of Beer and Chris orders another beer. I look at him and he says, “I drink all this beer to save the children. Less bottles out there are less for them to consume.”

And there you have it folks. That is the shit that Chris says. You can see even more of what he says now that he has his own blog.

How can it possibly be Monday already?!

Friday – My “lunch club” met up at Tazikis on Friday afternoon. I ordered what I always order, the Basil Pesto Chicken Gyro with pasta salad. It was freaking delicious! 

Saturday – My mom and I got started early on Saturday morning. We were at Nordstrom Rack at 10:00am when they opened. We spent almost three hours in there shopping! I wanted EVERYTHING. Ha! They have the most amazing selection of shoes, clothes, purses, jewelry, sunglasses, etc.

My mom got me a pair of Jimmy Choo sunglasses from there for my birthday. Jimmy freaking Choo. I just stared at them in the car on the way to lunch! Love them!

We had lunch at Ashley Mac’s, one of my favorite spots. My mom had never been before and she loved it just as much as I do! I ordered the half chicken salad sandwich on croissant with the baby blue salad and a sour cream biscuit. It never disappoints! Ashley Mac’s is the cutest little place to have a girls lunch. The interior is pink and brown and very delightful.

After that we hit up The Summit. I scored an amazing deal on a dress at Anthropologie!

The Loft was having 60% off their clearance items, I got a sweater for $16!!! SCORE!

After all those great deals, it was time for a little treat. Yogurt Mountain? Yes, please!

After The Summit, we headed to Brookwood Mall for awhile. Then we were off to the Grand River outlets in Leeds. For dinner we had Auntie Anne’s pretzels. They are the only pretzels in my opinion!

We shopped until the stores closed basically. My mom and I don’t play 🙂

When I got home, Chris surprised me with a Puggle painting! You will recognize it from my birthday wish list!

So sweet of him!!! I love little surprises like this!

Sunday – We hung around the house most of Sunday. I got meal planning and grocery shopping done. We started watching Homeland. I think we are going to like it. We also tried an episode of Shameless, and I liked it too.

Chris went to World of Beer on Saturday with our friends from Huntsville, but I am going two weeks without a drop of beer. Can you believe it?! I am sure that will be fixed on Thursday nights with talks of shenanigans conspiring between a few of my favorite blogging buddies 🙂

And that is how you spend the last full weekend of thirty! One more week of 30 coming up, and I am going to do it right!

I hope everyone has an amazing week!