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It's 2:20 on a Sunday afternoon, it's an awesome day out and I'm sitting inside, in my pajamas still, eating fresh cut birthday cheesecake, listening to electronic radio and writing this. Joy.
( Favorites meme snagged from N on LJ )
Thanks to the one person who wished me a happy birthday on Friday around here. *cough cough* Friday was pretty decent, Thursday was even better. Met up with Adam after work, he bought me coffee and we wandered Eaton Center for a while and he promised me to take me shopping for a present later on. After saying bye to him, I got my makeup done for free at The Body Shop, damn it looked good.
Got 22 people out to the restaurant for my birthday dinner when I made reservations for 20. People brought people I didn't expect and so we were short seats, it worked out ok as those that could stay went out to a bar afterwards. The food at Spring Rolls was great, everyone had a great time, there are really odd and crazy photos floating around somehere, I forgot my camera, so they aren't mine. There was a giant cake courtesy of Mark so that was really unexpected. I remember eating my piece with chopsticks since I couldn't find an extra spoon and everyone laughed at me. I remember getting distracted by a giant tropical fish tank. I remember presents, $20 gift card from Sephora, mango bath stuff, ice wine, clothes, money, cards...
I remember a lot of talk about going to a strip club after dinner and egging the people on that were nervous about such a venture...but that didn't end up happening. I remember hitting the bar afterwards, I remember the drinking, the massive amounts of drinking, the "screaming orgasm" at midnight thanks to Mark. I remember someone saying that it's not a party until someone grabs Sam's boobs and then having over 10 people tackle me to grab my chest for a photo op... GET. OFF. ME! I remember talking to Rose about how dangerous it is for her 14-year-old daughter Diana having the body of a 19-year-old. I remember Spiros finally coming by to the bar and, despite my personal goal to ease up on the smoking for my birthday and therefore refraining from purchasing a new pack for a few days, he disappeared to the corner store and came back with cigarettes and chocolates for me. I remember getting home at 2:30 in the morning and having to find a taxi halfway home.
I remember the night lasting not long enough. I remember time going by too fast. I remember how awesome a night I had despite the shit and stupid people I was dealing with before it. I remember that the ones that are worth it are really worth it and everyone else, water off my back.
On Friday, my actual birthday, I spent all day not doing very much except sitting at my computer before going out to dinner with my family. While at Pacific Mall, my mother asked me to check her lottery ticket and she won $10. Watching someone like her jump for joy in the middle of a mall is one of the weirdest sights to date. She used her winning money to buy stuff from the bakery. We went to the Mongolian Grill for my birthday, the food was awesome again and at the end of dinner, the waiter brought out chocolate cake with a sparkler and the house sound system played Happy Birthday in all its lame glory. I got burned by the sparkler and everyone in the restaurant applauded. Yay..weird.
Went to see a movie after dinner alone since I had a birthday movie pass good for that one day. Wanted to see The Last Legion but that was no longer playing and so I ended up seeing The Invasion instead. I had an hour to kill before the movie started so I moped around Indigo bookstore across the street for a while. I was growing increasingly depressed since I hadn't heard from Rob all day and was under the belief that not only was he not around for my birthday, but he had forgotten to call. Until, finally, at 9:30, my phone rings and it's him taking time out of the loud and obnoxious all-ages show he was working at his bar to head out onto the patio to talk to me. It was great hearing from him and then he put Holliewood on the phone and I got to hear from her, too. Yay! Rob told me about a fight he had gotten into at the bar the night before. Why the hell do the fights always happen when I'm not around? He told me about the present he's sending me for my birthday.
Ever since we first met a year ago, he learned that I'm Pagan and therefore spend a lot of time before saying hi to me researching Witchcraft, throughout the past year, he's kept reading, researching, compiling notes and such all in an effort to learn more about what I do. For my birthday, he collected everything he had into a massive word doc., decorated the pages and even taught himself how to do that, so it was all ready to print into a book. According to him, it took around 60 hours to complete. I haven't received it yet only because it was probably too big a file to send. But still...:D It's all about effort and he's really making up for not being here. And that's what I get for now, there's more when I do see him later on this month.
Finally saw Invasion, it was a pretty good movie, a take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dialog was well written, plot flowed, scenes were interesting, social commentary was also interesting. Only thing I didn't get, if the virus only takes affect after the person's fallen asleep, why did Ben (Daniel Craig) get changed over so fast? He shows up at the pharmacy as himself and then stumbles on the storage closet where all the "changing" employees are and immediately he's infected. When did he get the chance to sleep?
So my birthday became as perfect as it could be and I'm quite satisfied with how I started my 24th year. I'm going to have fun this year.
And when I turn 25, I'll be in Australia...who knows what'll happen then.
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I said I want coffee.
working
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