This past Saturday was my birthday and I felt like writing a fluffy piece.
A good friend recently surprised me with a wonderfully lovely gift. We discussed it and decided that he is best described as “morbid cuteness,” and I love him. This gift was a figurine called Hootie by the Furry Bones Company. Hootie is a statuette that stands roughly 3 inches tall. He appears to be a pudgy little skeleton wearing a “Tootsie Roll” owl costume and holding a bright red lollipop. This link should lead you to him and his adorable friends.
The ladies that I work with were super sweet. It is a common practice at work for the birthday person to be “surprised” with sweet treats on or around their birthday. Well, on Friday they surprised me with several treats that they had either made or purchased and decorated to match my interests. One purchased a cheesecake and decorated with “happy birthday,” and icing spider web and plastic spiders. To explain, I love Halloween and much of the décor that goes with it, spiders and owls are among my favorite things. If you like owls I would recommend My Owl Barn, a great collection of owl products and art. Another lady had purchased these little tiny bobble head owls (actually they were penguins but they were too cute and it was so sweet of her that we couldn’t find the heart to correct her) and she placed them with another of the sweet confections. They got me a cute card and everyone in my office signed it. I’m going to keep the little “owls” and the card, great reminders of a happy day at work. I was good and did not overindulge.
Mom cooked a great meal Friday night, chicken cordon bleu and homemade French fries, yum! We had cream puffs for dessert that night. Saturday, mom, little sis, hubby and I spent the day out of town, wandering around a couple of great stores before dinner. My cousins invited us out for dinner at a local restaurant, Blue Agave, and proceeded to treat all of us. It was a nice evening and a lovely gift.
What did you do on your last birthday?
What did you do on your last birthday?
First of all, how similar where the penguins to owls in order to be "mistaken" as owls? Or was it they did the best they could and just went with labeling them as owls? Second of all, I do not remember what I did for my birthday other than getting "rushed" out of the pottery painting place. :D
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