A great day.

For all of you that do not know, or maybe have forgotten, yesterday, May 8 was my birthday. As has become my tradition over the last 4-5 years, Josh took the day off work in order to be with me all day. We had a day of babysitting and basically for one whole day I got to be selfish. Well, there are lots of other time throughout the year that I'm selfish, if I'm honest, but my birthday is the day when I can do it and not feel guilty about it.

So yesterday Josh and I left the house in the morning and went out to breakfast. I love going out to breakfast. It's my favorite thing! Well, favorite meal to go out to anyway and the one that's done the least often. After having breakfast, we started the rest of the day. As some, if not most of you may know, I LOVE to get really good deals on stuff. I love shopping at thrift stores, finding things that are super cheap and making them my own by either painting them or fixing them or whatever. Anyway, the first place we went to yesterday was the goodwill distribution center. That's where you can go and buy things by the pound. After goodwill we went to some antique stores..which is another thing that I love to do. I have to give Josh credit..he was the one who found the antique stores and he found one of the best antique stores I've ever been in! I don't remember what it was called, but it's in Sellwood, which is a very cute area by the way. After the antique stores we headed over to 23rd in Portland, both to have lunch and also to visit Pottery Barn because I've had a gift certificate that I've had for a year and never spent because I never go to Pottery Barn and it's so hard for me to buy things there because it's so expensive. I mean, I love it..I love the style of the things there and I'm sure it's good quality..but it's so hard to justify spending $34 for a medium sized basket...But I did find something to buy with my gift certificate, so I did fine. We also had sushi for lunch and I tried something new and it was fabulous!

After lunch (which was late) and Pottery Barn we were having a little bit of a hard time trying to decide what to do. We thought about going to a movie, but there was nothing playing that I was interested in. So we ended up going to...where else? Ikea! We spent about an hour or so walking around Ikea, looking at the kitchen that I want to put in our house and getting some ideas for other things and then we headed home. The only downside to the day for me was that my back and butt were still really sore from my fall down the stairs the day before. (See previous post.)

All in all it was a great day for me..maybe boring for a lot of you, but great for me. However..the "big" part of my birthday present isn't going to come for a few days..so stay on pins and needles for me to blog about that.