Aaaaahhhhhhhhhh

So, one of my wonderful birthday gifts from my beloved was a gift certificate for a pedicure and facial at a day spa/salon on the north side of town.

Some of you may remember that we closed on the house on the day before my birthday....and then we moved a week ahead of schedule.

As a result of those things happening in that order, I lost the gift certificate, but fortunately, the spa keeps records....so I had my appointment today.

The pedicure was lovely....but there was some kind of internal mis-communication at the spa, and the facial was transformed into a full hour of therapeutic massage.

Most of you know that I have been a massage therapist for the past 20 some years....and that I have not had a massage since before I moved away from Chicago.

Needless to say, I am BLISSED OUT! A facial would have been perfect...lovely....much needed....but a massage?

Way beyond needed and appreciated!

Yay~!

In other news, we spent money again this weekend. Hah! I hope that stops, or at least slows down, soon....

We really needed a shade for the window seat window in the living room, because the lady who sold us the house took the custom made window treatment that was in there. The window has been naked all this time.

We also, or rather *I* also, really needed room darkening shades for the bedroom. So, we had two Blood Bath and Beyond coupons for 20% off, and we went down separate check out lanes, and saved a little on these items.

The one for the living room wasn't that expensive to begin with, so the 20% made it even more affordable...but the room darkening ones were pricey, and we need three altogether, but stuck with two, for the bigger windows, on this trip. At least we were able to get 20% off on one of those, too.

Then we put a few bucks down at Lowes. Again. Seems like we go to Lowes every weekend.

Then to the health store, and the pet store....

And then we spent some money getting the awesome poster for the dining room re- framed (it met with a mis hap in the move).

That's enough cash outlay for this weekend! Especially since we gots lots of new medical bills for Dave...sigh....

Anyway...'s all good! The house is coming together.

Maybe tomorrow we will start painting the office??