My Happy List

I am joining in on Ricki Treleaven's Happy List Linky Party!

1. Last evening Dan and I met with Ashleigh for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. I was not only happy to be with them, but also to have ordered the salmon with vegetables for my meal. I held off on the brown bread...until after I finished my meal. (Then I gobbled up what was left and had chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake on top of that!) Sometimes I can forego the cheesecake there; sometimes I cannot.

chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake

2. After dinner, Dan went home and Ashleigh and I walked around the mall. The mall has recently been remodeled with a gorgeous food court (where the Sees Candy Store is that I wrote about here) and is so beautiful now! Ashleigh bought a little mint green wallet at the Coach store. I learned that she is crazy about that color. There was a sweet purse in the same color that she loved but didn't want to pay for it. Hmm her birthday is February 13th.

3. I stopped at Tiffany & Co to pick up my tag choker. I had them add an inch of links because it was literally choking me. lol. It was all polished up like it was brand new!

4. Then Ashleigh and I stopped at Anthropologie. We have such fun there! I found more items she likes (I took notes for her birthday) and I treated myself to a couple things. I saw this green perfume bottle that dazzled me. Green is my favorite color and the bottle was so neat I decided to see what was in it. I don't like wearing perfume but I tried it anyway. I was amazed that it smelled like "True Love", a lotion  by Elizabeth Arden I wore when the kids were little. I cried when it was discontinued because it smelled so fresh and I got compliments on it all the time. I tried to find something comparable for awhile but gave up on it. I was so excited to find this perfume. Isn't it neat when we find things when we least expect it?

This is the beautiful box it was packaged in. It had hat pins in it!

I also treated myself to this jewelry tree with a P on it. I had been drooling over it the other times Ashleigh and I shopped there and decided it was time to take it off their hands (or shelves, I should say).

5. We have made our clinic situation at work more comfortable. We had been standing at a window all day long waiting to greet students and I suggested having adjustable stools that are counter height. So our wonderful administration is purchasing chairs for us.

6. I am thinking about the baby shower we will be having for my DIL in a couple weeks. We will be having out of town company who have never been to my home. I have posts already planned to show you but I have to hold off until the shower so I don't give away all the surprises (and there's one for you too, my blogger friends)!

I am glad Ricki is continuing with this linky party because it reminds me to take a few moments to reflect on how happy I truly am.

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