
The spring allergy, couple projects starting at work this same week, the Easter weekend, the depressing economy, the huge tax bill, such and such, I don’t feel like doing anything at all. I thought about going away for a local excursion, but I was debating about doing Easter with my family, since it is the same weekend this year. But once I have oversea business visitors coming over to work with me, I couldn’t take additional days off to make it a long weekend. So that local excursion plan went out the window pretty early on.
I finally told Tom last week that I want a quiet weekend, catching up on sleep, and just have a nice dinner out. I certainly didn’t want to cook for myself!!! That part I was confident. My low key birthday passed like this:
I woke up with a beautiful vase of flowers sitting on the dining table. Yes, my husband sneaked the flowers in the night before after I went to bed. He actually got a very nice birthday card to go with it. Yes, this is my first birthday having a husband, a recordable event in my book.
We went for a beach walk, taking a photo shot here and there of the neighborhood flowers, store fronts, doggies, signs, etc. Then I wanted to browse around the few antique shops in the area. Since we live here, we have never walked in any of those stores. They are further distance than we remember when driving by them. No, just window shop even though Tom asked if I want anything for my birthday. By the time we finished and came back, it was time for a light lunch. We tried out this relatively new German deli shop, Dolce Vita. Tom had a German breakfast sandwich. I had poached salmon wrapped in puff pastry. They were good, worth going back again.
Tom watched his Masters Golf Tournament on the big screen. After some surfing on the computer, I found a newly listed home that was opened for a visit. Dragging Tom with me, we stopped by. It didn’t meet Tom’s “warmy” feeling (no hardwood floor), no go there. We came back to the house. Tom continued with his TV while I passed out on the coach for a light nap.
I woke up closer to dinner time. Yes, I actually

I received a bunch of phone calls, emails, electronic cards, real paper cards from family and friends. How nice to be remembered!!!
See, it was pretty uneventful, as planned. In a way, it is good. I have been running around like crazy in the last 18 months, especially the last 9 months. I think now that my life actually started to slow down, my body is finally signaling to me that I need to take care of me.
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