Yum, cake.

Aw, I feel bad for Coop. How are they going to forget the birthday? That's sad. But it happened to me, too. I went out of my way to get shit for The Boss at my job and she pretended like my birthday didn't exist. I mean, it fell on a Sunday, but she could have acknowledged it on Friday. Or Monday. It was the other department (the one I'm adopted into) that came up to my floor and presented me with a dozen Cream Puffs and some birthday cards. How sweet. I just wish they had a spot for me in their department. They don't.

So I decided that I'm better suited for the skin care department at my company. I mean, it's not a real skin care department. It's more like the department that deals more with skincare than anything. In fact, the person at the top of that department mentioned that I should join his team last week. What I would do to be in that position!

So I stayed at home on Friday. I literally stayed in bed all day and night, watching TV and sleeping. It made me feel awful, but I think I needed it. BTW. Thank you SO much for the gift certificate. It took me DAYS to find what I wanted to buy with it (so much to choose from at amazon!)but I finally settled on a couple of must-haves: my eyelash conditioner. I was going to use the whole certificate to buy a ton of these, but then it didn't seem fulfilling, so I didn't do that. I bought one. Then, I bought a Henckels knife block because I have this one from Ikea that doesn't work like it should. All the knives swing out when you try to put them in the block. Weird. But my most exciting purchase was a Henckels Butcher Knife. It's HUGE! And so inexpensive. And last but not least...I got a copy of a popular Korean drama that I want to have for when my mom comes and visits me. We love to sit and watch them. So thank you. Now I'm really impatient to get them because I want to use the knife to cut everything in my kitchen, on my new Boos block cutting board that weighs about 40 pounds. I can hardly lift it up. I can't wait till I have to clean it and can't lift the damn thing over my chintzy small kitchen sink. You know that after paying over $2K for rent, you would expect to get a kitchen sink that could fit some decent sized pots and pans.

Well, I might be errand-running today. Are you coming over for Thanksgiving? If so, do you want to bring the same person you brought the last time? Now that we think we're not afflicted with gluten, we might be able to have a real Thanksgiving! Next week, I have that appointment with the best celiac doctor in our city. After he diagnoses me with just some food allergies, we can go and eat a whole bunch of bread together. And I can make the traditional cornbread, sausage and apple stuffing (damn my allergy to corn!), turkey breast, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes... I have to stop. I'm so hungry.