I'm 23 today!
I raise my mug of hot cocoa and toast to my really relaxing birthday.
Heather came in last night, and we made fantastic sandwiches, went into downtown Evergreen for hot cocoa and coffee, watched Mamma Mia! (She hadn't seen it!!!), and talked the ENTIRE night away. She got in at 3pm, and then we stayed up til 3am just talking about life, and catching up. It was wonderful. I love that with Heather, I can just be totally relaxed, myself, and just TALK, saying everything that's on my mind to someone who knows me SO well and knows all the history of everything I am saying. I haven't had that since I left her, Julia, and Dan after graduation in May. I've missed my Cornell friends more than I realized. I can't WAIT to see Julia too.
Speaking of catching up, yesterday I also spent the early afternoon having lunch at BeauJo's with Steph Rew, and walking off our fantastically yummy pizza buffet around the lake. THAT was a good reunion! She told me about life in LA, and I filled her in on grad school, and we just talked about cities, and life, and what we seeing going on in the future for us both. I think she and I are happiest as friends when we're just one on one, instead of in a group. The walk around the lake is ALWAYS a nice way to end a filling meal. I'd forgotten how yummy honey on BeauJo's crust is...
My new year's resolution is to talk to my friends more, and keep in touch with as many people as possible!
Anyway, we woke up this morning expecting to go to a drop-in noon Vinyasa yoga class, but they were doing some special members-only holiday thing, so we couldn't join. At least we called first! So instead we got ready lazily, talked to Julia a bit on speaker phone, and then took a walk down by the stream in Golden. Definitely one of my new favorite places in Colorado. Downtown Golden is so cute! The stream was FULL of massed broken ice, so it looked like an arctic glacial world, which Heather and Sammie and I enjoyed marveling at, exploring, and photographing. I should get those pics from Heather soon. Nice walk, definitely a nice day (63 and sunny!) Afterwards, I was thirsty, and wanted a Slurpie. It's my birthday, so we made an effort to find one! We found them at BK, and my mix cherry/coke slurpie HIT. THE. SPOT. Sammie and Heather also got slurpies. Yum.
When we got back, we called Bryan back and chatted with him for a few minutes, watched Ellen with Sammie, and then got ready for SUSHI! OMG it was such a long dinner, and so filling, but super super delicious. I love barbecued carmelized eel so much. mmm unagi. Also got myself some fatty tuna nigiri, which was sooo heavy and greasy, but so delicious. And it's my birthday, so I'll eat as much greasy salty tasty fish as I please! I always say fatty tuna is the salami, (or perhaps summer sausage) of fishes. "Delicient." (Sammie said it looked like a big tongue, and was totally grossed out!) Anyway, it was nice to not worry about getting expensive fancy rolls, cause it's my birthday dinner out with Dad! Fancy spicy spider roll here I come. Heather was adventurous in trying all the stuff Dad recommended, and I always forget she has a high spicy tolerance. I like her.
After dinner she drove back to her home, and we went home and opened presents. I already got my desk chair awhile back, I accidentally opened my walgreens birthday gift card at Christmas, and already knew mom and dad wanted to buy me an area rug for my new hardwood floors apartment. That'll be nice. We've been looking at a few designs in online post christmas deals! perhaps I'll post them here to get opinions. Anyway, I still had presents from family and siblings to open though. Though at my age I am officially cut off from aunt gifts, I still got a little something to open from a few relatives, like this hilarious "I <3 History" mug that Margie found at the airport and had to get me, and a tiny little candle from Susie. Jackie sent me some delicious-smelling VS lotions, DB got me a page-a-day Ireland calendar (How I wish I had been there!) and Sammie got me this recipe book full of italian Pastas that all look SO magnificently yummy (and easy!). We sat on the couch and looked through every one and ooh-ed over the ones we wanna make while I'm home! Mom also got me some new soft mittens. YAY! It's hard to find good mittens these days. Everyone's into gloves. Gloves are great, and there's def. something to be said for having fingers available. But there's nothing quite as toasty to the hand as a mitten.
Then me, Mom, and Sam just sat in the living room watching Joey try to find a spot to bury his pizza crust DB had given him. He's so funny! He circled and circled the living room with it, wanting so badly for us to let him outside to bury it. (we don't let him do that though. We used to, cause it was so cute, but he's dug up far too many moldy rotting bones and things later and gotten sick.) He eventually, after much careful consideration, chose to shove it into the crack of the couch. What a funny boy-dog.
Ok. Time to talk to my Casey, and get myself to sleep. SO many good options for tomorrow's enjoyment!
Oh, and I really like being 23, because I get sung really mature birthday songs like, "Happy Birthday to you, you live in a zoo, you look like a monkey, and you smell like one too!" HAH! That was a humorous birthday moment. Thank you Julia!
(That reminds me of when i was little, and in the mornings my dad would sing "Good morning to you, you live in a zoo, with the monkeys and the tigers... and you smell like one too!")
Heather came in last night, and we made fantastic sandwiches, went into downtown Evergreen for hot cocoa and coffee, watched Mamma Mia! (She hadn't seen it!!!), and talked the ENTIRE night away. She got in at 3pm, and then we stayed up til 3am just talking about life, and catching up. It was wonderful. I love that with Heather, I can just be totally relaxed, myself, and just TALK, saying everything that's on my mind to someone who knows me SO well and knows all the history of everything I am saying. I haven't had that since I left her, Julia, and Dan after graduation in May. I've missed my Cornell friends more than I realized. I can't WAIT to see Julia too.
Speaking of catching up, yesterday I also spent the early afternoon having lunch at BeauJo's with Steph Rew, and walking off our fantastically yummy pizza buffet around the lake. THAT was a good reunion! She told me about life in LA, and I filled her in on grad school, and we just talked about cities, and life, and what we seeing going on in the future for us both. I think she and I are happiest as friends when we're just one on one, instead of in a group. The walk around the lake is ALWAYS a nice way to end a filling meal. I'd forgotten how yummy honey on BeauJo's crust is...
My new year's resolution is to talk to my friends more, and keep in touch with as many people as possible!
Anyway, we woke up this morning expecting to go to a drop-in noon Vinyasa yoga class, but they were doing some special members-only holiday thing, so we couldn't join. At least we called first! So instead we got ready lazily, talked to Julia a bit on speaker phone, and then took a walk down by the stream in Golden. Definitely one of my new favorite places in Colorado. Downtown Golden is so cute! The stream was FULL of massed broken ice, so it looked like an arctic glacial world, which Heather and Sammie and I enjoyed marveling at, exploring, and photographing. I should get those pics from Heather soon. Nice walk, definitely a nice day (63 and sunny!) Afterwards, I was thirsty, and wanted a Slurpie. It's my birthday, so we made an effort to find one! We found them at BK, and my mix cherry/coke slurpie HIT. THE. SPOT. Sammie and Heather also got slurpies. Yum.
When we got back, we called Bryan back and chatted with him for a few minutes, watched Ellen with Sammie, and then got ready for SUSHI! OMG it was such a long dinner, and so filling, but super super delicious. I love barbecued carmelized eel so much. mmm unagi. Also got myself some fatty tuna nigiri, which was sooo heavy and greasy, but so delicious. And it's my birthday, so I'll eat as much greasy salty tasty fish as I please! I always say fatty tuna is the salami, (or perhaps summer sausage) of fishes. "Delicient." (Sammie said it looked like a big tongue, and was totally grossed out!) Anyway, it was nice to not worry about getting expensive fancy rolls, cause it's my birthday dinner out with Dad! Fancy spicy spider roll here I come. Heather was adventurous in trying all the stuff Dad recommended, and I always forget she has a high spicy tolerance. I like her.
After dinner she drove back to her home, and we went home and opened presents. I already got my desk chair awhile back, I accidentally opened my walgreens birthday gift card at Christmas, and already knew mom and dad wanted to buy me an area rug for my new hardwood floors apartment. That'll be nice. We've been looking at a few designs in online post christmas deals! perhaps I'll post them here to get opinions. Anyway, I still had presents from family and siblings to open though. Though at my age I am officially cut off from aunt gifts, I still got a little something to open from a few relatives, like this hilarious "I <3 History" mug that Margie found at the airport and had to get me, and a tiny little candle from Susie. Jackie sent me some delicious-smelling VS lotions, DB got me a page-a-day Ireland calendar (How I wish I had been there!) and Sammie got me this recipe book full of italian Pastas that all look SO magnificently yummy (and easy!). We sat on the couch and looked through every one and ooh-ed over the ones we wanna make while I'm home! Mom also got me some new soft mittens. YAY! It's hard to find good mittens these days. Everyone's into gloves. Gloves are great, and there's def. something to be said for having fingers available. But there's nothing quite as toasty to the hand as a mitten.
Then me, Mom, and Sam just sat in the living room watching Joey try to find a spot to bury his pizza crust DB had given him. He's so funny! He circled and circled the living room with it, wanting so badly for us to let him outside to bury it. (we don't let him do that though. We used to, cause it was so cute, but he's dug up far too many moldy rotting bones and things later and gotten sick.) He eventually, after much careful consideration, chose to shove it into the crack of the couch. What a funny boy-dog.
Ok. Time to talk to my Casey, and get myself to sleep. SO many good options for tomorrow's enjoyment!
Oh, and I really like being 23, because I get sung really mature birthday songs like, "Happy Birthday to you, you live in a zoo, you look like a monkey, and you smell like one too!" HAH! That was a humorous birthday moment. Thank you Julia!
(That reminds me of when i was little, and in the mornings my dad would sing "Good morning to you, you live in a zoo, with the monkeys and the tigers... and you smell like one too!")