annathepiper | Today is all about ME! (Reply)

And it has been made a good birthday indeed. I got surprised with a cake at work, first off--the contractor who's been working with me teamed up with our lead to get me a tasty chocolate cake from Whole Foods. The same cake I actually got for the lead last month, actually, but that's not a bad thing. Any cake that calls itself Chocolate Eruption gets mega points from me!

Then I came home to find the tasty homemade cake made for me by my beloved

solarbird, which we all shared after dinner while I opened up the loot. To wit:

One $30 Barnes and Noble gift card (always a good choice). You can imagine how fast this will burn a hole in my little pocket. Especially now that spazzkat has advised me that B&N is having a "buy one set of TV-related DVDs, get another one free" thing. There's some Doctor Who and Remington Steele calling my name, oh my yes.
The one remaining Carbon Leaf album I didn't own yet, which is the live one, Five Alive!. Yay!
One rack for all my weights, which makes me very happy indeed. Now this means I can put all my weights upstairs in the guest room where I can work out without disturbing spazzkat. "Under his desk" not being really a convenient place for my weights to have been stored, for any parties concerned. (Meanwhile, OOF but I haven't touched those weights in far, far too long. It was a workout all by itself moving them all upstairs, I'm here to tell ya. My arms still feel it, even as I'm typing this now. Also, note to self: keep the guest room door closed, to keep out the cat, who left a few unpleasant surprises therein. Meh!)
I didn't actually get this as part of my birthday loot, technically, but I must also express my appreciation to kathrynt and jessicac, who got me the Masterharper of Pern CD that came out a while back. I am informed that it is full of flute music, and also that it does not suck. Said kathrynt, "Flute, and Pern!" Which apparently sums me up for her.