better, now

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Well, we went to Borders and had our usual fun, although the kids wanted both the chocolate baby bundt cake and the giant cinnamon roll. I caved, because I had a $5 off gift card from buying children's books, and I also had a $25 gift card from our Discover Card cashback bonus, so that's "free money". I still have $19 left on the big gift card, so it wasn't so much of a splurge, money-wise. It was way too much food but I only had a few bites of each.

DS1 read an entire book about the Hulk, I was really impressed with how his reading is coming along. He's only in 1st grade! It was a level 2 book, too.

Our Borders is doing a special reading of "Polar Express" at 7PM and the kids really wanted to go, so I called DH, and we met for dinner at Jilly's which is quite close to Border's. Jilly's has awesome LC stuff -- a "muscle platter" of meat + caprese salad (tomato, mozzarella, basil), that's it. You can choose chicken or burger, and order by the 1/2 lb, 1 lb, or 1-1/2 lbs. It was sooo delicious.

Unfortunately, DD got a stomach ache and thought she was going to hurl so I ended up finishing my dinner quickly and getting her out of the restaurant. This has happened about 4 or 5 times recently; we think it's the lemonade, as that is what she always gets to drink since she can't tolerate milk. She was so sad and upset, although she didn't get sick. So we came home, which was actually OK because they would be so overtired if we stayed out even later.

My NF order came, with a lot of extra freebies which is nice, but no honey extract, and no cranberry, either. I fired off an email to them, so hopefully I'll get some kind of response, and soon. I'm bummed because the honey is the one I wanted the most!

Good story, from today: I bought a bottle of fancy tequila for DH for Christmas. For the first time in YEARS, I got seriously carded, as in "We card everyone 30 and younger." I told the cashier, "Honey, you must be kidding, I'm 40 years old!" She said, "You don't look it, and I need to see your I.D." So I gave her my license, and she looked and said, "Yep, there it is, 1963!"

Perhaps she was just trying to make my day? I don't care, it was nice to have someone tell me I look young. I started using Olay's "Total Effects 7x" just a few days ago, maybe it really is making a difference.

I have stopped freaking about the IRS thing. The CPA's office called and said they'll get right on it, and it looks like some kind of mix-up. Hope they're right, but I'm not going to stress about it.

My final package from Amazon came today, too, so I'm planning on starting the wrapping & packing tonight. Or, at least this weekend, anyway. I hope. That's the plan. Ahem. Right. Uhhhh... yeah.