one and only

I'm wondering if falling in love with someone else counts as cheating on your fiance? If it does... guilty I guess? By falling in love I'm of course referring to my feelings after watching adele both perform and receive her best album grammy at the grammy's. Not only was her performance amazingly beautiful, but the fact that she highlighted her snotty nose in her acceptance speech makes her, in my mind, not only incredibly british, but also my new celebrity girl crush, replacing the likes of Rachel McAdams, Reese Witherspoon and Natalie Portman. I tend to crush on the "cute" ones rather than the astoundingly "sexy" or "beautiful" ones, but I digress.

Working on your birthday (which I did, btw... 12 hours) is made so much easier when you have such an amazing fiance to come home to. Waiting for me in the car for me after work was my little saskatoon family.. he brought Maya along to greet the birthday girl! At home was a new starbucks double-walled mug (the BEST mug ever.. seriously, if you want hot coffee all day buy it) filled with my favorite, and only kind of jellybelly's I like, and the best part of the gift, my very own love note. Thoughtful, isn't he?

That night one of our couple friends, Meghan and Colin came over to drink wine and play settlers. I know what you're thinking.. best birthday ever. Surprisingly I was in for yet another gift! M&C (i'm betting mostly M, but engaged they be, and things now come from "them"). They got me a 3 month subscription to something called "Luxe Box," which I am so incredibly excited for. It's this thing where you sign up for a monthly "subscription" or yearly, or whatever, and every month a gift full of beauty product samples is sent to you in the mail. It's like your birthday every month! I can't wait for my first month. However, I think next month is already sold out, so I might have to wait until May.....

Speaking of waiting, I have been waiting since January 5th for my engagement ring to come back to me. I feel like I am pre-engagement again, just WAITING for the day Desmond would ask me to marry him, and us to stop being "engaged to be engaged" or, his made up state of our relationship to get me to a)shutup and b)not expect a proposal. A diamond fell out of the band, and it's getting repaired, but I'm getting impatient!! The only thing that keeps me holding on, is that I know it's getting re-plated and fully cleaned before it comes back, and will look like new. I think I can, I think I can....

Being MY mother, I wasn't surprised by the bombardment of old pictures my cellphone received this evening. That being said, I'll end my blog post and bombard the internet with one of said pictures... just because I am HER daughter. Cute.

"[thanking people, blah blah] .. oOo i've got a bit of snot .. "
--- Adele's grammy speech