HAPPY(I'm out of creative post titles)

I, my internet-schmoozing friends, am in a fantastic mood. Why, do you ask? Well, I'll tell you. First, it's my mom's birthday this coming week. I had ordered 2 beautiful handcarved candles from this great website called Ablaze Candles(highly recommended, huge selection and absolutely gorgeous!), and they were supposed to be shipped out Monday. Well, I didn't take into account the handcarving time, and shipping and such, and so when the shipped out on Wednesday, I panicked. You see, My folks are leaving Saturday morning for a week to go to Hawaii(and I am grrrrreen w/envy), and the shipment wasn't due to arrive(according to UPS) until next Monday. So I'm all upset, thinking she's going to get her gift late(which doesn't really matter because she loves me anyway :) ), and that it's going to be left sitting on the porch in the snow for the better part of a week. Then, lo and behold, it arrived today!! Hurrah!! And, of course, she loved them. I knew it. Hehehe...

Secondly, and I'm sure I should have posted about this 3 weeks ago(but she's doing such an incredibly thorough job herself on her blog), but welcome to the world, Kira Rose!! She is the absolutely beautiful 3-week old daughter of my sister(I swear we were sisters in another life, anyway) e. If you want to see all kinds of adorable pictures and read her auto-biography-in-progress, go here. She has an incredible way of putting things that has me cracking up all the time. She's awesome. Also awesome, is my other sister(not in another life, I think we were hatched together on Jupiter), A, is going to have a baby!! This woman, I swear, thought she would never spawn... Neither did I... And here we are. I'm getting a little scared, to be honest. I'm afraid to even sneeze too hard around Mr.M for fear of impregnation. Well I can't wait to meet Kira, which won't happen until we can afford to vacation in Australia :( , and I hope to convince A&B to move out here so I can properly play my role as Auntie B. We may not want spawn of our own, but that doesn't mean we can't spoil the crap out of our friend's little monsters.

Oh!! I almost forgot to tell everyone!! Mr.M got a haircut!! He looks very handsome!! It's not a buzzcut like before when we first met, it's just short enough that it won't fall in his face without a baseball hat... He's really quite fetching now. Not that he wasn't always fetching, of course! My sexy, sexy man... But I digress. It's a good haircut. ;)

We might be going to the Downtown Aquarium in Denver tomorrow, if Mr.M is feeling up to it after some horribly grueling days at work, chucking and stacking tires(little ones, big ones, and huge ones taller than he is). I'm so excited, and I really hope we go. If we do, I promise to bring the camera!!

EDIT: I typed up this post at work on Friday, and then it was saying something about not being able to connect with the server or something, so I saved it, with every intention of posting it later when I got home from work. Well, Mr.M was on the computer playing Star Wars when I got home, and by the time he was off the PC I completely forgot. Then yesterday, we were really busy, going out for lunch at Hacienda Colorado and then to the AQUARIUM!!!, and so here we are on Sunday, with me editing and you, my 3 or 4 loyal readers, shaking your heads at my unreliability. And speaking of unreliability, guess who forgot to bring her camera on her little aquatic field trip? C'mon, guess!! Well, the aquarium was really fun, not nearly as big as the one in Mystic, CT, but still really fun. We plan on going back again, and then I'll bring the camera. Still love me? ;)