Some weeks are better than others

I’m thankful that this has been a "better" one.
 
Sunday DH made a special birthday dinner for me. It was a day early, but since he was making my favorite spaghetti the way it should be made he started cooking in the middle of the afternoon. He let the meat brown and the sauce simmer for several hours, chopped fresh veggies, and made garlic bread and bruschetta from scratch. Add in a tasty bottle of wine and I’m yours! He’s really a fantastic chef. I’m so lucky to have a man that cooks!
 
Monday was my actual birthday. As I said last week, I hadn’t been too excited about it. I really just wanted a low-key day with my family, and to spend some time with them. And cake. You have to have cake.
 
The day started out fine. I got lots of birthday wishes, some by text, some on Facebook, and only a few phone calls (do people ever call each other anymore?).
 
Work was fine – I was worried it was going to be your typical Monday, but it actually wasn’t. Everyone seemed to be in a good mood and pleasant. The girls I work with in my department brought me balloons. I thought about grabbing my favorite lunch from Chick-fil-A, but I still had leftover spaghetti and garlic bread. Later in the afternoon, the girls decided to start the birthday fun. They brought out the cake – but this wasn’t just any cake. It was a Cold Stone Reese’s ice cream cake. And – and –if that wasn’t enough they also had a bunch of cupcakes. They bought me a box of my favorite candy, a card, and an AmEx gift card so I can shop for myself for a change.
 
I was so surprised by everything they did. I expected a cake and a card, but they really went beyond that & made the day special for me. It was so sweet of them to do that, and I really appreciated the gesture.
 
The rest of the week I haven’t been feeling so great. I’m not sick, but I can tell I’m on the verge of it. I feel exhausted, run down, achy, and just generally crummy. I really need to get a good night’s rest, but the past several days I either haven’t slept well or Will has been up in the night. Thank goodness my mother in law is here so I can (hopefully) sleep in tomorrow morning!
 
Speaking of the weekend…there apparently is a surprise planned for me tomorrow. The hubs won’t tell me what’s going on, so all I know is that we’re going somewhere. I was hoping he’d take me over to St Augustine for the weekend, but I don’t think that’s happening because we have to be back for a neighborhood dinner Saturday night. There’s a new brewpub that just opened, so several of us are going to check it out. Actually – let me amend that statement a bit: DH has already been and keeps talking about how awesome it is, so he wants to go again with the whole group. Sounds like it will be fun!
 
The only thing that’s really put a damper on my week (besides feeling crappy) is that my Dad has totally forgotten my birthday. Usually he’s the one that calls first thing in the morning to wish me a happy birthday, but as Monday went by I didn’t hear anything. Each day I’ve waited for his number to show up on the caller ID when the phone rings, and each day I’ve become more and more concerned that something had happened to him (I start to get really paranoid if I don’t hear from somebody when I expect to). He has a new girlfriend though, so I figured his silence was due to that. Finally this morning I texted him to see if everything was OK. He replied right away, saying that he’d been really busy but that things were going great and that we’d talk over the weekend. And that was it. He called me a few minutes later and I thought he’d had an “a-ha!” moment and remembered, but when I listened to the voicemail all he said was that he couldn’t wait to fill me in on everything that was going on in his life. Again, that was all he said.
 
I haven’t called him back, and to be honest I’m not sure I want to talk to him now. I’ll write another post on this later, but I don’t want to get into it right now. I can’t say I’m surprised - just disappointed.
 
But! I’m trying not to let it spoil the rest of my weekend. I’ve got a lot to look forward to – I promise to update y’all later on this weekend with what DH has planned!