This week has been full of surprises and celebrations - for absolutely no reason. It started out on Monday when I made a cake for Sam. I love baking and any excuse to make a cake is a good one. The only problem, is that since I work from home, I'm the one with the cake in my direct vicinity and chocolate cake is just the kind of snack for the afternoon break.
The afternoon came and with it the mail bringing presents from England. Chocolates and cuff links. I planned to get S bullet cuff links for his bday next month. For some reason, I could not find any in the US, so I had to go to England. I find this amusing because it's easier to get bullets here in the US than the UK and yet, I had to go over the pond to find cuff links. Maybe it's because cuff links are worn more in Europe than here.
I was so excited at their arrival and how good they looks that I couldn't wait and gave them to him immediately. And, of course, he loved them.
Tuesday brought the big surprise. S had been hinting about a surprise since last week but was vague about it. I waited patiently, knowing that it could be anything. He got up early Tuesday and was out of the house before I could get my weary legs on the floor. Later in the evening when he got home I had some crazy stories to share and we came across a nest of hatching spiders, so we rushed out to buy spider death. I was personally willing to let the little ones live, but I had to defer to the leaseholder.
So we run out, get spider death, kill the things and the house smells like yuck. I'm like, "hey - didn't you have a surprise?" and S said "let's go on a walk." Thinking it was just to leave the house to get away from the spider death, I was glad to leave. But then he starts smirking and talking about the surprise and we're walking down the sidewalk and I know what he's done. He's gone and bought a Jeep and is going to surprise it on me.
We cross the street and I'm looking at the cars parked on the street - there are a lot of Jeeps usually parked on the street, so I can't immediately pick out a new one. Pretty soon we saunter up to a silver Jeep, I'm not about to assume this is the one. It looks totally cool, with big black netting in the case, clean, silver. And S walks up to the door and unlocks it.
This is it! The big surprise. A new Jeep. He hands me the keys and we put the top down and I proceed to check it out. It's exactly what we've been talking about - although S is the one with the high Jeep fever. It's actually a lot of fun.
But, that is not the end to the surprises! Last night I got home and there were two packages in the mail. One was full of Sake from my friend in Oregon. I promptly put them in the fridge. The other was yet another surprise from S to moi.
I opened the package and inside was a little black nonpod from idont. I'm busy filling it with my Mp3s right now - all the ones except the songs I've bought from iTunes and my personal CDs that have been imported into iTunes that are in m4a format.
So, it's just Thursday - I wonder if there can be any more surprises, because I'm happy with the ones I've given and received.
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