Let's Twist and Shake!

We are getting our Christmas tree today! It's becoming a tradition to buy your tree from this local ice cream drive-in in Elyria. As usual, I'm looking for the best smelling tree!

[...and I found it!]

Aaron and I went out last night with Jay and Jen. We hung out at the Beer Keeper in North Ridgeville and had some drinks. Well, I had hot tea and appetizers. We enjoyed the relaxing evening!

I work tonight and am scheduled to work alone from midnight to 2 a.m. None of my desk attendants are available (or willing) to work during the last night of their holiday weekend. I hope it's not a busy night!

Musical alert... Wicked

Aaron and I went to see Wicked at the Playhouse Square, Cleveland.

We had good aisle seats and quiet adults around us in the Mezzanine section. I got nervous as we were walking to the theater -- a group of young females starting reciting the play and singing the songs -- that's all you need, a chatty audience who will act out the play to ruin the evening! It happened to us in Camelot, Oy! We were lucky tonight.

I enjoyed the clever storyline and classic Broadway-like music. I liked it, Aaron, not so much. I even cried a little at the end. OK OK so I cry at every movie or play I see!

GIRLIE UPDATE: 42 and still kickin' it!

I slept in today although I wanted to get up early and have breakfast with Aaron. When I finally did get up, I had spam and toast with the dogs. [Happy Hawaiian girl!] And look what's outside -- snow on my yard! Grweaaat! I hope it doesn't start snowing today because I'm driving into Cleveland tonight and I just LOVE driving in snow!

I thought long and hard about getting up and heading down to the stores and shopping for the good sales. But after 10 minutes under the covers I returned to my true love and talent -- and hibernated while Aaron played his PS3.

Amazingly I did get up in time to get ready for dinner at Players on Madison in Lakewood and to see a musical. Our dinner was excellent! We started off with mushroom pierogies and drinks. Aaron had the peppercorn steak special with mashed sweet potato and veggies. I had the shrimp pasta with a vodka cream sauce. We even had dessert, a triple chocolate torte. Ono!

It was a very nice date night-birthday for me! Aaron and I got dressed up (even though I froze my legs off in a dress), didn't have to wait for a table at the restaurant, loved our dinner choices, didn't get caught up in traffic into the city, lucked out with a great parking space close to the theater entrance, had great seats for being in the semi-cheap section, timed the bathroom breaks just perfectly so we didn't need to wait in line, and didn't catch traffic on the way home!

And if you're wondering, I got a manicure and pedicure earlier in the week, a new crocodile skinned purse, and new lucky brand jeans for my birthday gifts! Thank you Aaron! You're the best!

Hau`oli la hanau Anake!

Sorry you had to work today but am glad you went out to eat with the family and had someone serenade you! You should take tomorrow and Sunday off as your b-day present!

I'm always happy to share this day with you!

Happy Gobble Gobble!

I slept in since I didn't have to cook or bake anything. It's a tradition to go over to my brother-in-law Kyle's house for Thanksgiving, and Becky does all the cooking. We actually bring a dish each year and this time Aaron wanted to bake a shoofly pie (molasses).

The feast was great! I decided I wouldn't over stuff myself and had only one serving of everything. Maybe that's why I didn't fall asleep! Aaron's pie was tasty but it's not my favorite. We also did our yearly movie watching with the family -- Aaron picked Tropic Thunder last year. Cookie picked Bruno today -- Gawd!

[Dang, my camera finally broke so I couldn't take pictures!]

Four hours later we headed home and had a nice walk with our dogs. Brrrr, it's really chilly tonight! My face was frozen by the time I got home!

Now I'm back into my favorite flannel pj's!