My 38th birthday dawned bright, sunny and beautiful! It's always a happy surprise because it has been known to be a date for record breaking snowstorms (NJ) or torrential downpours (CA). But this one was lovely...
Mario and I went to breakfast at Cafe Nouveau, my favorite breakfast spot. We brought one lucky dog, Bailey, who got to sample my eggs benedict made with avocado and tomato rather than ham... so good!
When we got home I convinced Mario that the thing I most wanted to do - rather than get a massage, pedicure or ride one of my horses, was to paint the spare room furniture. He was truly disappointed in me, but what could he say - it was my birthday after all! 
And the furniture really needed to be painted, it was so ugly, and we had a house guest coming from another country no less! (more in my next blog entry on that!) It turned out to be a surprisingly painless process, the paint we had gotten went on easily and quickly after a quick sanding, and we brought out a fan to blow away all the overspray. But then do you put white pristine furniture back in a dirty room? No, we ended up going through all the drawers, knicknacks, built up crap, etc. and cleaned and re-arranged everything. We tried to bring in the daybed from the shed, but to Mario's disgust there was a mouse hole/nest in the middle of it! Ugh, one more thing to buy before the guest arrived. We did clean up the frame and set it up in the room.
And the furniture really needed to be painted, it was so ugly, and we had a house guest coming from another country no less! (more in my next blog entry on that!) It turned out to be a surprisingly painless process, the paint we had gotten went on easily and quickly after a quick sanding, and we brought out a fan to blow away all the overspray. But then do you put white pristine furniture back in a dirty room? No, we ended up going through all the drawers, knicknacks, built up crap, etc. and cleaned and re-arranged everything. We tried to bring in the daybed from the shed, but to Mario's disgust there was a mouse hole/nest in the middle of it! Ugh, one more thing to buy before the guest arrived. We did clean up the frame and set it up in the room.That night Mario took me out to The Watermark, a restaurant/club in downtown Ventura. The upstairs area has a bar and tons of windows looking out over the town, and they have live bands. We met our friends Stephanie and Nick, Leticia and Alex, Daryl and Maria and Randall. I was so happy to see everyone! Stephanie gave me a goody bag of fun, cute and funny gifts, and Leticia gave me beautiful earrings. I opened a gift from my Aunt Lois to find a wonderful surprise of photos of Hope and I and Lois and Alison from a visit to us in the early days in NJ. It had to have been around 1991??? It was so sweet and such a surprise to see those pictures again!! And Mario gave me his gift as well -- a hardcover book of this entire blog! It is like a year in review, and I love it!!
The night quickly became a blur, as my wine glass was never empty and I had NO idea how many times it had been refilled!! The band was good, and Mario and I closed down a bar for the first time in many years. As I looked through the photos to share on the blog, I had to laugh at a common thread through just about every one. . . not a normal expression in the group!
It was a great way to bring in my 10th anniversary of turning 28. :-P
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Wow again! How did he get the book made?? I love that idea! Glad you had such a great bday. Richard loves the veggi eggs benedict idea. =D
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