Birthday Wishes

There have been a few small parties in honor of my birth over the past week, but I figured I'd save them up and put them in one blog. It's just easier that way.

So last Thursday was the first family event. My mother told me that we would be celebrating my birthday at the same time that we were having Jason's farewell party. He's gone back to Tucson. Jason was about to go and get me a gift when I arrived and I stopped him telling him that the things he got me from around the world were a good enough birthday gift for anyone (plus he will eventually be getting me cash for the camera that got stolen from him on his trip). My mom told me that she ordered my gift, but it wouldn't be delivered until the end of the month. I didn't actually want her to get me anything since she has all her medical crap to be worrying about so I didn't even tell her what I wanted. Matt showed up about mid-way through dinner and told me he would get me a gift on his next day off... I didn't know workaholics got days off. So I got a chocolate on chocolate cake which I got to take a big chunk of home. I ate that big chunk in one day for fear that it would go stale before I got to finish it. I'm such a cow.

On Saturday I had Nick's family to celebrate with which was nice. We went to Ruby Tuesdays which beat out my mom's meal just because my mom insists on putting massive amounts of onions in everything (no offense, mom, but you should really know better by now). Once again I had the overly generous crowd for this one and managed to collect ninety more dollars in GC's towards my camera. At this rate I won't have to pay for any part of the camera. I also got some fantastic jelly bellies and I got to see the always fantastic Miss. Margaret. After lunch Nick gave me my presents from him ("They're not wrapped, though."). So I now have a bag for my future camera, some perfume that I really enjoy, a t-shirt that says Natures Loser with the lazy panda bear...... and a crap ton of booze. Nick gave me a bottle of Absolute vodka a couple weeks ago to take to a party and told me it was supposed to be part of my b-day gift.... but then he got me another bottle that was twice the size of the first and gave it to me on my birthday. Lots of good booze for me.

Last night I went to karaoke and got another hundred dollars GC for my camera from Hutch because he apparently forgot that we only spend fifty dollars on birthdays. I told him not to expect the same treatment next week for his own birthday since I can't afford it. He also bought me a drink while we were there. He tried to buy me a second, but I paid him back and reminded him that he got me a hundred dollar gift card to Nebraska Furniture Mart. Insane people getting me these huge gifts!

Tonight I will be going to dinner with my cousins (Ashley and Jaime for sure. I don't know about anyone else coming as of yet). That will be fun and we are planning on going out Saturday night as well. So far its been a pretty good birthday and I have nothing to complain about. Also my manager came into the office today and she brought me a mini-chocolate cake with a smiley face on it and one of my co-workers bought bagels for the office yesterday so I'm just getting nice and fat for my birthday. It's pretty fantastic.

So, Once again thank you to everyone who has been helping me celebrate and for spending too much on your gifts to me (this is seriously rivaling Christmas at this point). I have thoroughly enjoyed my birthday this year. You are all great and thank you again. It's gonna be a good day.

First Birthday of the Year

Yesterday I celebrated my first birthday of the year (it won't be the last) and yes I know it's kind of early to be starting the whole birthday parade, but this was a joint party so it is somewhat excusable. I must say, so far so good on the birthday front. Right now everyone has honored my requests for GC's which is usually my biggest task. :) I have collected just under half of what I need for what I'm aiming for this year which would be the Nikon D80 camera that I mentioned in a previous blog. How kick ass is that? and also to those of you handing out the big denominations of GC's SHAME ON YOU! You people are spending far too much on my silly birthday! (So, thank you everyone. I love you all, even though I now think you are insane.)

It was a hectic weekend since it was a holiday weekend and I must saying having a party to close it out was just about the most pleasant way to go. I got crap-tons of food to feed my pasta baby, a tasty slice of ice cream cake, and about a two hour treat of Rock Band. It was a good party and hopefully the ones to follow in the next couple weeks can live up to my early expectations of this year. :) I'll keep you updated.

Thanks to everyone who was there to celebrate my expulsion from my mother's uterus.