& that's the way life goes

Some birthdays are more memorable than others. This year my birthday started a full 4 days beforehand and was one that I will always remember.

Though a d-bag co-worker told me that I’m not living my life as a 20-something, as I’m not having enough fun.  He says that I’m more of a 30-40 year old.  What?!

And a more positive story… at taekwondo we got 2 new students.  One being a 20 year old guy (“21 in a couple days” *pumps fist).  I didn’t talk much to him but another student asked where he was going to college and he asked us both where we went. I replied WSU but I had graduated.  He’s congratulated me thinking I had just graduated.  I smiled and thanked him and told him I had been out of college for 5 years now.  His eyes might have bugged out of his head.  He didn’t think I was a day over 23.  Woot! I won’t even tell you I got carded for tobacco 2 weekends ago…

Now, on to the birthday fun with pictures…

Thursday - Fondue and major fun with the best girls ever!

Friday – Yin Yoga (also including Sarah &  Mandy), Pizza, Rum Cake and Wii action with LP

Saturday – Sex in the City 2 (hated…go ahead be mad at me), Lunch at PF Changs, Kohl’s BBQ, Quiet Time and 4 Hours of Dawson’s Creek = WIN!

wtf? i know this is cute on the runway but i don't know about real life...

Sunday – Lunch with the gorgeous Jenni, who had the on the cutest dress, at Slow’s BBQ.  OMG Slows is freakin’ delicious.  My mouth waters just thinking about it.   Jenni gave me film for the birthday present I ordered that was from C.  (why no picture?!)

Lazy Sunday with C when he got back from his guys weekend.  We got hooked on Rescue Me. Thank you Netflix

Monday – Work, Lots of Lovely Birthday Wishes, Lunch with Coworkers, Taekwondo, Dinner with C (who got me the best card ever A little schmoop with sarcastic humor) and my camera!

I’m in serious love with this little camera. It is so much fun!

…I want to do this year…

(I was going to make this 28 things I learned in the past year, but I think looking forward is more fun!)

1. Go horseback riding
2. Finish setting up my office: hanging the picture collage that’s sitting on the desk and the tape markers are up
3. Participate in a fundraiser
4. Make Pink Champagne Cupcakes
5. Write a freelance article
6. Organize the cupboards (boring yes, but it NEEDS to get done)
7. Send out cards <— I’m really horrible at this but I want to get better because I want people to know I care and that I do remember
8. Make a piece of jewelry
9. Go through my closet and get rid of the things I don’t wear
10. Sell something on eBay
11. Cedar Point!
12. Use the iron on decals I bought last year
13. Stain the man shack
14. Wakeboard
15. Something special for LP’s 30th & C’s 35th birthdays
16. Get another tattoo
17. Visit Michelle again
18. Take my aunts to lunch
19. Send out more snail mail <– If you want to receive snail mail email me your address
20. Teach Scooby to roll over
21. Create a fun tradition in January so the month doesn’t seem so long
22. Take a class
23. Take time to meditate weekly
24. Learn to sew
25. Doggie playdates
26. Perform in the aerial yoga student showcase
27. Finish one of the many scrapbooks I started
28. Make Thai food at home

It’s going to be a great year, I can feel it!   

I’m 99% sure I’ll write this and it won’t even describe a tenth of how fun last night was.  Seriously, one of the best I’ve had this year for sure, and ranks high for nights out in the past decade.  The laughing, silliness and just being with these girls is amazing.

<3 <3 <3

Per Lauryn‘s recommendation & reservation; Sarah, Jenni, Mae and Mandy met up at the Melting Pot.  All of us with the exception of Lauryn were Melting Pot virgins.  In Sarah’s words, who knew melted cheese could be so fun!

Upon sitting down we were told that there were $5 martinis…

Lauryn gave me the cutest mug I can’t wait to use at work

Our server Chris, aka PappaG, was awesome. As were the other servers he brought over. I never have exciting stories about going out to dinner. I’m not even sure half of what happened actually happened or we were all hallucinating from our $5 martinis.

You can’t go wrong with cheese (and an extra pot of it)…

or chocolate…

or your server telling you his mom was Playmate of the Year and lived at the Playboy Mansion in the ’60s and because google is our best friend Jenni did look it up.  His mama was a hottie, fo’sho.

You also can’t beat free champagne or an extra dessert dipper plate with a birthday candle in it and having the girls sing Happy Birthday so loud, at least they put us in a room by ourselves

or servers bringing you champagne with their shirt off…

Or girls that would have never met, but blogging brought them together at a time in life when it’s hard to make new friends

Or yelling Opa when they lit the chocolate on fire and then roasting marshmallows over it

Or the hilarious quotes that kept coming.  So glad for twitter and journals to write that shit down!  Check out Sarah’s post for the game Guess Who Said What

On top of all of that, there may have been an offer to visit Costa Rica and there was definitely plans made for 80′s Night and to celebrate PappaG leaving.

Love you guys!
xoxo

I don’t know where to start!  This weekend was seriously loads of fun!  Probably one of my best birthdays.

Let’s start with my vanity.  I got my hair colored on Saturday.

It’s the first time I’ve had real color put in.  She had to lighten it and then put the dye in.  What a long process! LOL but it was fun because my colorist is really cool.  C came with me too.

Friday:

After work a group of us went downtown to a bar to watch the Red Wings in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final.  This was our face after the game.

In all honesty, I didn’t watch much of the game, we were too busy doing this…

And by the time I realized just how bad it was, well, I didn’t care so much.  We finished off the night by going back to our house and playing ping pong.

Saturday:

I got my hair did and then rushed back home to put on my new shirt to go out to dinner.  I don’t usually spend $38 on a shirt but I loved it and rocked it.  Thank you Victoria’s Secret.

We had drinks at the bar with some awesome friends!

Sunday:

Was like any other Sunday.  I ran errands and tried to enjoy the sunshine when the clouds didn’t cover it up.  My dad also made me pancit and brought it over.  Yum!

Realization: The older I get, the less I give a Fuck what anyone else thinks.  It’s very liberating and a bit scary cuz really,  I just don’t care.