We had a near PERFECT day today. Honestly. Ben and I decided to take an "us day" today and I am so glad. You see, we have Fridays off together, but that is set aside for church here and so we never get a play day together unless it is planned. So today we moved around our days off and did almost everything we wanted! We slept in and then snuggled in bed and laughed at the birds attacking our windows (they see their reflections in the mirror finish to the windows). Then we got up and made eggs and toast with jam. Our breakfasts we bring to work are good, but no one can beat breakfast in PJ's. I love a good, tasty breakfast.

Then we sat around in our PJ's planning out what we wanted to do with our day and I worked on the final squares of a surprise baby blanket for the newest baby in our family :). (Now is the time to put the squares together and restrain myself from ruining the surprise!!!) So we cleaned up as slow as we wanted to and then headed out to lunch at Johnny Rockets! I love a good burger about every other month. It is strange, I really only enjoy red meat when it is smothered with other things like mushrooms and onions or wrapped up in a hamburger. Ok get this, so from there we went to the Ritz Carlton on the Pearl (the man made island in Qatar) and got massages for an hour!!!
I describe the whole experience as a little Lebanese girl, who spoke with a French accent in English, rubbing love and health into my muscles. It was wonderful. I felt like cotton when it was all said and done.


From there we went to Villagio and leisurely purchased our groceries, ran simple errands and got some fun things too. For instance, this arab style lavender oil burner to bring the lovely smells of my massage experience into my home.
And then this dead sexy sweater and a shirt for my handsome husband! He says I love getting things for him more than for myself, and he is right!
After our shopping trip we went home and I started to make salad night salads. When I was in High School my mom and I made up these ultimate salads that really were a meal! They have a ton of veggies, which compensates for the heavy dressing, in my opinion.

There are veggies, chicken, eggs, sometimes croutons and ranch dressing! I remembered the salads when I made ranch dressing from scratch a few nights ago and then I just had to make salad night salads for Ben. He isn't a huge lettuce salad type of guy, but if something is done right he can't deny it, and this my friends was clearly done right. He loved salad night salads. Well as we were finishing up the dressing and pulling the chicken from the rotisserie chicken we remembered it was Tuesday night and we had people to pick up in 2 minutes to go to our church youth group weekly activity!! So we threw everything into plastic containers and ran out the door.
The activities were great, but we didn't get to watch our movie and cuddle in a blanket before bed because of it, so I have to rate the day a 9. It was tough to give a 9 when a 10 was so close, but you can't bend the rules with perfection. Wow we really got close though!