Birthday's come and gone
Sep. 24th, 2011 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danlansdowneSo yes, I turned 26 last week. Spent the evening having dinner with my grandparents and aunt (the cupcake lady). Won 25 dollars on a scratch-and-win ticket my mother sent me and got a free lunch the next day at work. Ordered from a good Italian place on Wyandotte.
The day before I went to The Somerset Collection, a very upscale mall outside Detroit. Some nice stores there; they have a Lego Store with bulk bins at the back so you can replace all those pieces that got sucked up the vacuum or disappeared under the sofa cusions. I was feeling generous, so I bought myself a new sportcoat at Macy's (on sale but the service sucked) and a new pair of shoes at another store. The model of Fallingwater at the Lego store was sorely tempting but I resisted.
I'm back in Cambridge this weekend. My mother and I went to the orchid show and sale and I added to my collection. I'm planning to bring a couple of them into work; we're moving to new offices at the end of the week so I'll have a window and windowsill to use. I likely won't be there past the end of my contract but I want to make that office MINE.
Still paying off bills; might take a bit longer than I thought but it's going to happen. I want to get my line of credit paid off first; that one has fixed payments so there's less flexibility. After that one's taken care of I plan to apply for a new one and shift everything onto it so I can track it more easily and get a lower interest rate. Might be handy to have in case I get a new job/apartment and need to buy some furniture.
The day before I went to The Somerset Collection, a very upscale mall outside Detroit. Some nice stores there; they have a Lego Store with bulk bins at the back so you can replace all those pieces that got sucked up the vacuum or disappeared under the sofa cusions. I was feeling generous, so I bought myself a new sportcoat at Macy's (on sale but the service sucked) and a new pair of shoes at another store. The model of Fallingwater at the Lego store was sorely tempting but I resisted.
I'm back in Cambridge this weekend. My mother and I went to the orchid show and sale and I added to my collection. I'm planning to bring a couple of them into work; we're moving to new offices at the end of the week so I'll have a window and windowsill to use. I likely won't be there past the end of my contract but I want to make that office MINE.
Still paying off bills; might take a bit longer than I thought but it's going to happen. I want to get my line of credit paid off first; that one has fixed payments so there's less flexibility. After that one's taken care of I plan to apply for a new one and shift everything onto it so I can track it more easily and get a lower interest rate. Might be handy to have in case I get a new job/apartment and need to buy some furniture.
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Date: 2011-09-25 03:13 am (UTC)Orchids sound snazzy, I do like them too.
CYa!
Mako
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Date: 2011-09-25 03:38 am (UTC)We'll have to compare notes some time. What sort of collection do you have?
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Date: 2011-09-25 06:51 am (UTC)-Mako
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Date: 2011-09-25 09:50 am (UTC)Happy (late) Birthday! =^.^=
(if you like drinking fancy coffees, would you prefer a happy latte birthday?)
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Date: 2011-09-26 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-25 02:22 pm (UTC)Just wish I didn't have the bad habit of killing off anything 'decorative' almost as soon as I get it home...
(I have a Yucca palm that's still alive, I think, and a rather tatty-looking fern... )
I even managed to kill off one of hose 'dinosaur plants', and they're considered almost bulletproof...
(I'm mostly growing vegetables these days. Preparing to seed some bell peppers and chilis and getting my WindowFarm running again)
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Date: 2011-09-26 02:47 am (UTC)