Best Weekend EVER.

It really does not take much to please me. I swear. In effort to make up for spending my 32nd birthday in the hospital hooked to IV drugs, I moved it on down to this weekend. What did I want to do? Have breakfast at IHOP. Yep, that's pretty much it. A few crepes and those nice shredded and browned hashbrowns and I'm a happy camper. I didn't even mind so much the trio of small boys thumping their feet on the base boards directly behind me. And after this blissful meal I returned an article of clothing to Khols' without them giving me a hard time or waiting too long, I wandered around IKEA where this conversion shelf/coffee table/window seat thing I've wanted for literally YEARS was acually ON SALE in the color I wanted and IN STOCK and then I even got to go to the super Marshalls and try stuff on. Ok, they didn't have anything I wanted there (aside from a really big mirror for $50) but some days go like that there. It was a good day! Then it got even better!

Oh joy!

My brother and sister-in-law dropped off cupcakes for my belated birthday and helped me put together my new Ikea project. Then Sunday I went wine tasting with another friend and her lovely neighbors I want to steal. Even my grumpy spouse had a good time and made new friends which is in itself a feat of happiness. How can one NOT have a good time stuffed into a limo with 9 people and dozens of bottles of wine, really? And I brought the cupcakes along and they brought cheese and bread and triscuits and hummus. All was good. We had a cook out after the wine tasting at the neighbors and I had my first hamburg in like 6 months and it was also bliss. I tried watching some of the oscars last night, but I was too tired. It was a full weekend and everyone had FUN. I can not express my satisfaction. Like a giant fat cat after a huge meal of fish and creme sitting in the sunshine on a fluffy carpet looking outside at the dog who is outside in the cold wind with a giant smile.

Satisfied.