Birthday Goodness.

Today was my birthday. Started out crummy, got WAY better come evening time.

I got home from a semi-crappy day at work to find my sweet baby girl there with a Panini Press for me! Very exciting! I love Panini sandwiches. So does Becky.

I'm looking forward to makin' some interesting sandwiches with Becky on it.

THEN! Jimbo drug me out to the garage to present me with a super cool Del Mar Schwinn Crusier bike to ride while we restore the Hollywood Schwinn that the Clintons of the White House (but not THAT White House) gave me a while back. Jim needs to do some tweaking - the guys that assembled it put some stuff on backwards....like the front fender.
It looks blue here, but its actually a pearly purple-ish color. I LOVE IT!!

I felt like an 8 year old, climbing on that thing tonight and tearing around the block. I cannot WAIT to ride it on the regular....I can already tell its going to be REALLY good exercise. And I feel so damn spoiled!

I'm totally getting a bell and a wire basket for this thing!

Jimbo, his brother, Tim, and Becky took me out to dinner at Johnny Carino's for my favorite meal, the cheese tortelloni.....and a HUGE glass of wine.

I also got a beautiful plant from my buddy, Vonnie, and my other other good friend, Leslie, stopped by work today with a goodie bag that included a Happy Bunny shirt that says "Hi. Where's Your Off Button?"

At any rate, it turned out to be a perfectly self-indulgent, giant child day for me. And it was fantastic!