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Oh yes I am. What an incredible array of things have arrived in the mail for me today!

And now I will show them to you a bit closer and explain their wonderfulness

Above you see the amazing melamine tray my mother-in-law to be sent me- perfect William Morris arts and crafts. Then the fabulous Cath Kidston dish towel (um does anyone actually use them to mop up spills, because really this is too pretty for that)and utterly enviable dotty Pylones thermos(which I've had my eye on for simply MONTHS) from my dear Toast'n'Candy. And a totally charming froggy tape dispenser from the incomparable Lauren, who also sent along these

Do you see that? The pretty file folders that I could swear were in the "coveting" section of this blog not a few days ago?!? And a notebook to match, and a slew of totally exciting reads?!? Gah!

But wait, there's more, from my friend Camilla.

Isn't everything Carrot and Stick totally divine? Camilla is indulging my current coral obsession with these totally extravagant letter press treats. She will not be surprised to hear that I had my toenails painted "California Coral" today.

And my fiance did something truly heroic for my birthday- took me jeans shopping. Poor man had to come with me to store after store, as I tried on at least 80 different pairs of jeans and came out more peevish and discouraged after each failure. But the gallant man hung in there, and finally we ended up with these

Truly a perfect pair of jeans (but for needing a bit of hemming), dark enough to be dressy, boot leg enough to be flattering and fitting happily in all other ways.

And to top it all off, it is a truly beautiful day here in San Francisco, the kind of utterly cloudless blue sky one typically dreams about in the "summer of fog" that afflicts the city. My friend Corinne took me to lunch at the delicious Chez Maman, and we worked off our decadent French luncheon with a very long walk by the Bay.

My mother always asks me to reflect a bit about how I feel coming in to a particular year on my birthday, and what I can say here is that I must have been doing *something* right all these years to be lucky enough to have such wonderful, thoughtful friends and family in my life!

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