And so it's begun. Birthday Week. I like my birthday, I really do. I don't mind getting older, in fact I'm finally glad that I won't have to say that I'm 21 anymore. There's something about being 21 that rubs off the second after you've turned that age that makes it uncool to actually admit that you're 21. So now that I am going to be 22 I'm glad that I will be able to admit my age again. This week I have a lot of stuff planned for myself and with friends. The week began with the arrival of my birthday gift from my mom. She bought me a beautiful pair of snow boots from L.L. Bean. I had wanted the boots for Christmas last year, but they were sold out so she got me them for my birthday this year instead.
I spent last night with Anna catching up and eating Ikea mashed potatoes. Who knew frozen Swedish potatoes could be so good? I didn't. I brought knitting over and unfortunately I didn't get around to it, but I was wearing my Ray-Ban look-a-like eyeglasses and have decided that in ten years when I finally get around to having kids, I am going to be a hot dorky mom. We watched the new How I Met Your Mother and the premier episode of Ashton Kutcher on Two and a Half Men. I still don't know who Barney is marrying and I don't think I'm going to continue watching Ashton Kutcher's television antics. I did learn that for $12 I can get basic cable and by basic I mean basically no channels, but still five or six is better than nothing and while I won't get FX or sports I will be able to watch Sunday football (and hopefully win something) and all of the shows I am addicted to on The CW.
I have class tonight, but tomorrow my friends in AU are throwing me a party... with cake! It's also board game night so I will be able to break open my new Boggle game that I picked up this weekend. God, I really am a dork. After that I have field hockey practice, maybe, and then ice hockey in the morning. Thursday I am going to dinner with my best girls. We're going to Zahav down in the city. Marg and I have been dying to go for the past two years and now we finally have the chance and we're jumping on it. It's their Restaurant Week menu, but I read they have Goldstar and ever since Hebrew Friend came back from the Holy Land raving about, I've wanted to try some.
Friday night I have to work, but then after we're all going to a bar in Ardmore to celebrate me! Everyone's invited to come, the more the merrier. I love my friends, I love beer, and I love Cricket Circuit so I'm excited for that, plus last Friday I made money so hopefully I get a repeat night. I've taken Saturday off, who wants to work on their birthday if they don't have to? Not me. It's going to be a low key day culminating in what I'm hoping will be a wonderful dinner with some people who are very dear to me.
Yes it is a jam packed week, but I love my birthday or at least the thought of it. It's rare that I ever fully get to enjoy my birthday. Either friends let me down or I eat too much sugar and have a meltdown (think grade school). Right now I feel fine and worry free, but give me a few days and the birthday anxiousness will kick in and I will be crying in my cake about how it's only eight years until I'm thirty or that this might be my last Philadelphia birthday with my Philadelphia friends for awhile. Oh the joys of turning older.
Totally awesome, right?
I spent last night with Anna catching up and eating Ikea mashed potatoes. Who knew frozen Swedish potatoes could be so good? I didn't. I brought knitting over and unfortunately I didn't get around to it, but I was wearing my Ray-Ban look-a-like eyeglasses and have decided that in ten years when I finally get around to having kids, I am going to be a hot dorky mom. We watched the new How I Met Your Mother and the premier episode of Ashton Kutcher on Two and a Half Men. I still don't know who Barney is marrying and I don't think I'm going to continue watching Ashton Kutcher's television antics. I did learn that for $12 I can get basic cable and by basic I mean basically no channels, but still five or six is better than nothing and while I won't get FX or sports I will be able to watch Sunday football (and hopefully win something) and all of the shows I am addicted to on The CW.
I have class tonight, but tomorrow my friends in AU are throwing me a party... with cake! It's also board game night so I will be able to break open my new Boggle game that I picked up this weekend. God, I really am a dork. After that I have field hockey practice, maybe, and then ice hockey in the morning. Thursday I am going to dinner with my best girls. We're going to Zahav down in the city. Marg and I have been dying to go for the past two years and now we finally have the chance and we're jumping on it. It's their Restaurant Week menu, but I read they have Goldstar and ever since Hebrew Friend came back from the Holy Land raving about, I've wanted to try some.
Friday night I have to work, but then after we're all going to a bar in Ardmore to celebrate me! Everyone's invited to come, the more the merrier. I love my friends, I love beer, and I love Cricket Circuit so I'm excited for that, plus last Friday I made money so hopefully I get a repeat night. I've taken Saturday off, who wants to work on their birthday if they don't have to? Not me. It's going to be a low key day culminating in what I'm hoping will be a wonderful dinner with some people who are very dear to me.
Yes it is a jam packed week, but I love my birthday or at least the thought of it. It's rare that I ever fully get to enjoy my birthday. Either friends let me down or I eat too much sugar and have a meltdown (think grade school). Right now I feel fine and worry free, but give me a few days and the birthday anxiousness will kick in and I will be crying in my cake about how it's only eight years until I'm thirty or that this might be my last Philadelphia birthday with my Philadelphia friends for awhile. Oh the joys of turning older.
Looks familiar.
