I was so rudely interrupted by Pops:)  I posted quick and shut down my computer.  Did anyone see the fight?  What the hell happened to my baby???  He really wasn't looking good throughout the whole fight.  Still, I was very surprised when he was knocked down.  I swore it was going to go down to the 12th.  No such luck:(

Back to birthday gifts.  Mother Dearest gave me a pocketbook.  Eh.  I use shoulder bags and this has long straps with no zipper.  I can't work with that.  So it's hanging in my closet.  I'll be giving it to someone for Christmas.  She also gave me a personal organizer.  It's one of those things that has a few blank pages for meetings/schedules and a small address book.  I'm such an IT geek.  I don't use paper anymore!  My schedule and phone numbers are all in my Outlook which is synchronized with my IPaq.  I also have my cell phone for all my phone numbers as well.  Do I really need to keep them in a 4th place?  Mother Dearest is the kind of person who goes to Boscovs, walks up and down the aisles looking for gifts which won't run up her charge card that much and purchases. 

Finally, she gave me a pair of gold hoop earrings.  They look like this.  I wanted to clap.  Not because that was the only thing I liked or anything like that.  Because for the past 6 years, every birthday, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Mother's day, she has given me really cute silver earrings.  The problem?  I CAN'T wear silver earrings.  I can't wear anything in my ears except 14k gold.  If not, my ears get infected.  Offtopic, I wonder if that's what is going on with my belly button...I know...TMI...Ontopic.  She continuously gave me silver earrings and I continuously told her I couldn't wear them.  She would take them and tell me she would exchange them for me.  Next time I saw her, she was usually wearing them.  But I always had the candle!  PIC and I used to joke that she purchased earrings she'd like and conveniently “forget“ to return them and get me something else. 

What really ticks me off is for the past 6 years, she buys me a candle.  A week before my birthday, I went to the store and I was thinking of buying a candle because I only had one left.  I didn't buy one because my Mother Dearest ALWAYS buys me a candle for my birthday.  Nope, not this year. 

Mother Dearest should just really keep her money.  I told her I wanted a back scratcher.  Give me something I NEED!  But, on the bright side, I don't need to go holiday shopping for DJ's teacher this year.  She's getting a brand new personal organizer!  Next year, I'll hook her up with the pocketbook:) 

BTW, Dawn, I'm not ignoring your comments.  For some reason I'm not able to post any.  Hmmmmm.....