A cookie, a belly, and a birthday!

First, I'll have to address the issue of the cookie:

A few weeks ago, we had two people stop by our house for about half an hour, and I had just happened to have finished baking some cookies to take somewhere else. Not wanting to be impolite (since they smelled so good...) I offered to let them each take one with them when they left--even though that meant having less cookies to take to the people for whom I had originally made them. They took the cookies, and after they left I headed out to deliver the rest of the treats. This is what I saw on my way out to the car:

"What's that in the grass?" I thought to myself. So I took a closer look...

"AH!" I gasped! "My cookie!" And then I giggled all the way to the car. :) Apparently someone didn't want the cookie I offered, and I thought it extremely funny that they would take it, then throw it by the wayside in a VERY obvious place! Right next to the sidewalk, for heaven's sake! I was thinking about it later, and decided that the person that did this was diabetic, and I had forgotten. I seem to recall them mentioning something about it.... Anyway, I scooped up the cookie and delivered it to someone who would appreciate it--Buddy. :) Just kidding, I left the cookie there. But I have learned my lesson about offering cookies to a particular person. I'll try to offer them a celery stick or something next time.

Moving on to "a belly":

Well, here it is, 32 weeks of belly:

Also, if you couldn't tell, I have made my last ditch effort at going blonde. The stylist did a great job, and I would highly recommend him if you have some extra money (T.R. at Cloud 9 Hair Design). It's the second time I've ever had my hair cut by a man, and he did an awesome job. However, I weird myself out every time I look in the mirror, and I'm not used to finding outfits and makeup that look good with blonde hair, so I think it'll be back to brown from now on. I snagged Buddy as a brunette, after all. How much more fun could a blonde have than that? ;)

And, last, but certainly not least (in fact, I probably should have mentioned it first, because I love it so much, but I thought the cookie story was better...), my birthday:

I always love when my birthday comes around! I don't care about getting older, or about getting presents or parties, I just like to have a time that I can expect special treatment from those around me (i.e. Buddy) and not feel guilty about being selfish. :) Usually this means I try to lengthen my birthday out to a whole month instead of one day ("no, I don't have to go grocery shopping today, it's my birthday month" or "I probably shouldn't have to do these dishes; it IS my birthday month, after all"). If only I could make it last all year! This year Buddy tried so hard to surprise me for my birthday, but his plans were foiled twice. First, he told me he had a package coming in the mail, so I wasn't to open it if I saw it first. On wednesday he stayed home in the morning so he could be here when the package came, and he thought it would be a good surprise to set it up for when we arrived home together later. One thing he didn't anticipate, though, was my clumsiness. I happened to spill tomato basil soup all over my lap at work, and I had to drive home to change in the middle of the afternoon. I didn't see EXACTLY what the surprise was, since he covered it, but I saw the empty SONY box in the bedroom and I had a good guess. I was excited for my present, but a little disappointed, too, that I ruined my own surprise. He DID surprise me with one thing, though: he "built me a cake or something" (sorry-napoleon dynamite reference...). He made me a chocolate cake and served it to me with raspberries on top! My favorite dessert! (I was lucky enough to get a chocolate raspberry cake at work earlier, too--thanks, guys!). Needless to say, I had an excellent birthday, and I'll be sad to see all the special treatment go away next week--buddy has to take finals all next week and will be busy studying. This is a pic of the presents I got from buddy this year (nice, eh?):

I hope you all had a good week, too!