Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Happy Birthday to MEEEEE!

If you know me, you know I LOOOOOOVE a birthday! And not just my birthday, but all birthdays. I love giving people gifts, picking out just the right thing, the perfect card, color coordinated wrapping paper.... and I love my birthday because it's the one time of year that I can ask for exactly what I want, be lavished in attention and not feel the least bit guilty about it. I can guarantee you I will never be one of those people that doesn't celebrate birthdays because they don't like getting older. Who doesn't like getting older when there's cake and presents involved?!?!

For this birthday, I had to postpone the celebration by a day due to finals (stupid, stupid finals) but the bonus was that I had two things to celebrate - finishing my most difficult semester of grad school yet and another year of me! I invited all of my favorite people to join me at Divine Wine (aka "Lee's Wine Bar) for some celebrating over what turned out to be a few too many bottles of wine.

I think this was truly my best birthday yet - I was surrounded by (almost) all the people I love, and everyone had a blast. There was a lot of laughter, even more profanity, and Melissa and I continued our tradition of breaking something every time we're together. Looking around, I was overwhelmed by how lucky I am to have all of these delightful, funny, and truly beautiful people in my life. So, to Aaron, Melissa, Ken, Paula, Ron, Mark, Leslie, Tom, Brad, Sarah, Jessica, Jose, Elena and Justin, thank you for being my friends. I would gladly have 1000 birthdays if I got to spend them all with you. The hangover was truly worth every minute :)

Please enjoy some of the fabulousness I got for my birthday....







Not pictured:

Old Navy and Starbucks gift cards. Coffee and cute clothes? Hell yeah!

Sunbeam Mixmaster 12-speed stand mixer. Forget KitchenAid - Sunbeams are way easier to use!

and the best for last......

iphone!!!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't gotten it yet because my contract isn't up and I would rather wait 2 months than have to pay $200 extra. But I'm still getting an iphone!!!!!!! Super special thanks to Aaron, Melissa, Fran and Randy for that one!