7 years, and finally the curse has ended...
That whole string of terrible birthdays, I've finally arrived at a year where it was everything I ever wanted. Since I was 18 to now my 25th year, my birthday had seemed to become something just to dread, but this year it just kept getting better and better, its like a miracle.
Huh, 7 years, maybe there's some truth to that mirror breaking thing after all (though I don't recall breaking any mirrors, especially on my birthday).
Quick recap for the birthdays from the years I failed to account for:
2012: Mom and I went out to dinner at the Hibachi place I like after church, just us. I think this is when I got a 3DS (the limited edition Zelda:OoT version)
2013: Friends and I went out for sushi and the next day I went out with church friends to Olive Garden. Also got a ps3
So my birthday was this past Friday. It started out simple, my parents made me bibingka cake (my favorite, though I barely had a chance to eat it >.<) for breakfast and I more or less got things ready for the day. School sent me an email saying Happy Birthday. Thanks ODU? That was unexpected lol
I also played Pokemon X which had another fun birthday surprise waiting for me :D
I went to lunch with seika19 and her boyfriend at Three Amigos. I got seafood chimichangas and, while it looked light, it was actually very filling and I couldn't finish it lol
Then they had the waiters bring out a cake that they got for me at Coldstone. It was literally perfect; it was an ice cream cake coated with dark chocolate (like a dipped cone) and it had my name in orange, eeeeee!!
(A much, much better situation than my birthday in 2012 that consisted of just me and her eating an ice cream cake from walmart that I had to get on my own)
Her boyfriend also treated us, which was a super unexpected surprise (!!!)
I still find it hard to find the line between being modest and grateful. You know what I mean? It's like you don't want the person to put themselves out, but you really, *really*, REALLY appreciate what they're going to do. That sort of thing. Just a note, this sort of thing would continue throughout the weekend; a fact I would like to reiterate: this year's birthday definitely ended my seemingly endless streak of bad birthdays
Afterwards we went to the comic book/card store and I was looking into Weiss Schwarz, I think I'm going to try and get into this game guys. It was a short visit and we soon left for my friend's boyfriend's house (mostly because I was spazzing over the cake melting; oddly enough, it was 85 degrees that day with bright sunshine and we would continue to have clear skies the rest of the weekend, not that I'm complaining ;) )
The rest of the evening consisted of games (mostly the new Blazblue game that came out and Project Diva F) and me getting my first look into DnD (granted it was character creation, you gotta start somewhere). I had originally decided that I wanted to GM a session for my birthday, even though I have literally never even played the game before so that didn't exactly pan out completely well. I sounded like such a noob lolol I don't know how my friends put up with me.
So by some miracle, my Coldstone birthday cake didn't melt (despite being left in an 80 degree car for 30 minutes and on a kitchen counter for 2 or 3 hours; not in a row though) and, fortunately, I got to drop it off at a friend's house as I was heading home. Despite all of this I still made it back in with one minute to midnight! Woop woop!!
It was also 70 degrees at midnight, what on earth?
And for my final awesome surprise of the night, one of my online friends Sonic (who, coincidentally, shares a birthday with me) gave me an amazon gift card! Something I desperately needed! Eeee!
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The next day, Saturday, I ended up having to get up early to do a group project for school. The whole project thing is a bit sketchy in the first place seeing as, for one of my classes, my assigned group and I needs to do some community project for our final semester project, but the weird thing was that it had to be our own doing? I think I'm just a bit miffed because I had the idea to join with this one community plan to go read books to kids which we could have all done together as a group. The professor rejected the idea on the grounds that it "wasn't our project, it was another group's plan"? Or something like that. However, this project we did was us assisting a dog shelter at a community fair where we more or less paraded the dogs around so they would hopefully get adopted. Apparently that was allowed. I don't even know anymore.
So yeah, it was the weekend of my birthday, but I didn't complain because it was hard enough to coordinate schedules and such so just getting the task done and squared away was the true reward of the morning.
Unfortunately, as most of you know, I'm allergic to dogs so I ended up having to drag seika19 out again, along with her nephew, to assist me with the puppy handling; being my "hands" so-to-speak. It all worked out in any case, they had fun, my group had fun, and it was a really fun event. I mostly hung back and took pictures for the project, but the best part was that I didn't have an allergic reaction for the rest of the day, something I consider to be a miracle.
I did somehow get a sunburn from all of this, randommm~ I mostly think its because it was a bright sunny day, but it was also really windy so it was cold and I didn't realize I was getting burned when I was. Oooh~ It's like a triangle across my chest >o< lolol
After the event I took seika19's nephew home and we stopped by McDonalds to get some My Little Pony toys (...what?) and then I took her to work. I then headed home to spend the rest of the day shopping with my mom (who worked the night before and was still sleeping when I got back).
We went to Captain Georges for dinner (its like this super fancy, formal restaurant buffet; its all seafood so I was happy happy ^^ And mom paid which led into discussions about being thankful for the things we have. Ahh~ I love restaurant talks) and then shopping afterwards. We went to get some gifts for a baby shower (which we missed because we were celebrating my birthday instead :p) and my mom did the mom thing where she dropped the opposite-of-subtle hints about grandchildren. Oh moms...
We also got some Land's End clothes and groceries (the second thing for obvious reasons). We then stopped by Barnes and Nobles in which I had the full expectation that I could finally get all the manga I've been behind in getting, only to have that hope dashed because they only had half of what I was looking for. B&N irritates me at times.
Then we stopped at Five Below where I found the *best* iced tea ever, Honest Tea. ...Punny name aside, it is literally the best tea because I find everything too sweet and I have to water it down, but I didn't have to for this bottle! Woop woop!
With the birthday madness exhaustion starting to catch up with me, I passed out with yet another full day of planned activities waiting for me.
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I woke up early Sunday morning still full from the previous day (and probably Friday as well). I got to church, dropped off my things in my classroom, and went straight to choir practice. When I got back I suddenly had balloons in my room?? (I still haven't figured out how they got there; this mystery is driving me nuts)
After the morning service, my friends and I (consisting mostly of my fellow college students) went to Uno's for lunch. I had the make-your-own-deep-dish-pizza after realizing that one of the toppings I could choose was goat cheese. I also bit a fork and chipped a tooth, that was scary. One of my friends also treated me!! Again I say, HOORAY!!
The afternoon consisted of fun conversations and thankfully no singing waiters (which surprised me, I tied balloons to my chair and everything). Afterwards, I headed home only long enough to change as I got to go meet my best friend from childhood and her boyfriend for an evening at the movies and catching up over dinner. She kept pushing for us to meet early, which I love since most of my friends are always late or used to being late. Ahh~ She just gets me and my early tendencies.
We watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which, honestly, 90% of my excitement stemmed from the fact that it released on the day of my birthday. It was a great movie, but my thoughts mostly kept wondering how the events of the movie would effect the tv show (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.). I also kept wishing Coulson could have been in this movie, just jumping in for a cameo or something with him yelling at SHIELD for even considering Capt. America as an enemy lolol
After the movie we headed to Red Lobster for dinner. I know what you're probably not thinking, seafood again? Originally we were going to go to a hibachi place, but we were starving after the film and we didn't want to wait long for our food. Dunno if going to Red Lobster was the best remedy for that, considering when we got in we had to wait to be seated (we were 3rd in line) and we still had to order, but oh well.
It was a good night of catching up, talking out a lot of issues, and making jokes that sort of thing. She also treated me (!!! An action I refuse to overlook no matter how often it happens). Afterwards I headed home and ended up hosting a birthday stream for 4 hours XD (and for *yet another* nice surprise, a lot of friends came in!!) We made really dumb jokes, odd observations, and various rants; just like the old days. It really, truly was great.
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And that was my 25th birthday. The greatest birthday I've had in, well, forever. I literally have no regrets and I can't even think of anything that could have made it better. Even the crazy things like my sunburn, chipped tooth, B&N issues, didn't even matter, in fact, it just made the weekend that much more memorable :3
Sadder thing is, the ideal birthday for me would be just getting together with my closest friends, going out to a restaurant I want to go to and just sitting and eating and joking with each other. Maybe they'll all get together to treat me, that'd be just bliss. And maybe, if they had a chance, a simple present, but that's just extra sprinkles on top.
I've never had a birthday like that. But actually I don't think anything could make me happier.
Don't worry past!me, don't worry; it will happen. It'll take some time, but it will happen. *sniffle* I did not cry when I realized my birthday dream actually came true this year
Huh, 7 years, maybe there's some truth to that mirror breaking thing after all (though I don't recall breaking any mirrors, especially on my birthday).
Quick recap for the birthdays from the years I failed to account for:
2012: Mom and I went out to dinner at the Hibachi place I like after church, just us. I think this is when I got a 3DS (the limited edition Zelda:OoT version)
2013: Friends and I went out for sushi and the next day I went out with church friends to Olive Garden. Also got a ps3
So my birthday was this past Friday. It started out simple, my parents made me bibingka cake (my favorite, though I barely had a chance to eat it >.<) for breakfast and I more or less got things ready for the day. School sent me an email saying Happy Birthday. Thanks ODU? That was unexpected lol
I also played Pokemon X which had another fun birthday surprise waiting for me :D
I went to lunch with seika19 and her boyfriend at Three Amigos. I got seafood chimichangas and, while it looked light, it was actually very filling and I couldn't finish it lol
Then they had the waiters bring out a cake that they got for me at Coldstone. It was literally perfect; it was an ice cream cake coated with dark chocolate (like a dipped cone) and it had my name in orange, eeeeee!!
(A much, much better situation than my birthday in 2012 that consisted of just me and her eating an ice cream cake from walmart that I had to get on my own)
Her boyfriend also treated us, which was a super unexpected surprise (!!!)
I still find it hard to find the line between being modest and grateful. You know what I mean? It's like you don't want the person to put themselves out, but you really, *really*, REALLY appreciate what they're going to do. That sort of thing. Just a note, this sort of thing would continue throughout the weekend; a fact I would like to reiterate: this year's birthday definitely ended my seemingly endless streak of bad birthdays
Afterwards we went to the comic book/card store and I was looking into Weiss Schwarz, I think I'm going to try and get into this game guys. It was a short visit and we soon left for my friend's boyfriend's house (mostly because I was spazzing over the cake melting; oddly enough, it was 85 degrees that day with bright sunshine and we would continue to have clear skies the rest of the weekend, not that I'm complaining ;) )
The rest of the evening consisted of games (mostly the new Blazblue game that came out and Project Diva F) and me getting my first look into DnD (granted it was character creation, you gotta start somewhere). I had originally decided that I wanted to GM a session for my birthday, even though I have literally never even played the game before so that didn't exactly pan out completely well. I sounded like such a noob lolol I don't know how my friends put up with me.
So by some miracle, my Coldstone birthday cake didn't melt (despite being left in an 80 degree car for 30 minutes and on a kitchen counter for 2 or 3 hours; not in a row though) and, fortunately, I got to drop it off at a friend's house as I was heading home. Despite all of this I still made it back in with one minute to midnight! Woop woop!!
It was also 70 degrees at midnight, what on earth?
And for my final awesome surprise of the night, one of my online friends Sonic (who, coincidentally, shares a birthday with me) gave me an amazon gift card! Something I desperately needed! Eeee!
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The next day, Saturday, I ended up having to get up early to do a group project for school. The whole project thing is a bit sketchy in the first place seeing as, for one of my classes, my assigned group and I needs to do some community project for our final semester project, but the weird thing was that it had to be our own doing? I think I'm just a bit miffed because I had the idea to join with this one community plan to go read books to kids which we could have all done together as a group. The professor rejected the idea on the grounds that it "wasn't our project, it was another group's plan"? Or something like that. However, this project we did was us assisting a dog shelter at a community fair where we more or less paraded the dogs around so they would hopefully get adopted. Apparently that was allowed. I don't even know anymore.
So yeah, it was the weekend of my birthday, but I didn't complain because it was hard enough to coordinate schedules and such so just getting the task done and squared away was the true reward of the morning.
Unfortunately, as most of you know, I'm allergic to dogs so I ended up having to drag seika19 out again, along with her nephew, to assist me with the puppy handling; being my "hands" so-to-speak. It all worked out in any case, they had fun, my group had fun, and it was a really fun event. I mostly hung back and took pictures for the project, but the best part was that I didn't have an allergic reaction for the rest of the day, something I consider to be a miracle.
I did somehow get a sunburn from all of this, randommm~ I mostly think its because it was a bright sunny day, but it was also really windy so it was cold and I didn't realize I was getting burned when I was. Oooh~ It's like a triangle across my chest >o< lolol
After the event I took seika19's nephew home and we stopped by McDonalds to get some My Little Pony toys (...what?) and then I took her to work. I then headed home to spend the rest of the day shopping with my mom (who worked the night before and was still sleeping when I got back).
We went to Captain Georges for dinner (its like this super fancy, formal restaurant buffet; its all seafood so I was happy happy ^^ And mom paid which led into discussions about being thankful for the things we have. Ahh~ I love restaurant talks) and then shopping afterwards. We went to get some gifts for a baby shower (which we missed because we were celebrating my birthday instead :p) and my mom did the mom thing where she dropped the opposite-of-subtle hints about grandchildren. Oh moms...
We also got some Land's End clothes and groceries (the second thing for obvious reasons). We then stopped by Barnes and Nobles in which I had the full expectation that I could finally get all the manga I've been behind in getting, only to have that hope dashed because they only had half of what I was looking for. B&N irritates me at times.
Then we stopped at Five Below where I found the *best* iced tea ever, Honest Tea. ...Punny name aside, it is literally the best tea because I find everything too sweet and I have to water it down, but I didn't have to for this bottle! Woop woop!
With the birthday madness exhaustion starting to catch up with me, I passed out with yet another full day of planned activities waiting for me.
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I woke up early Sunday morning still full from the previous day (and probably Friday as well). I got to church, dropped off my things in my classroom, and went straight to choir practice. When I got back I suddenly had balloons in my room?? (I still haven't figured out how they got there; this mystery is driving me nuts)
After the morning service, my friends and I (consisting mostly of my fellow college students) went to Uno's for lunch. I had the make-your-own-deep-dish-pizza after realizing that one of the toppings I could choose was goat cheese. I also bit a fork and chipped a tooth, that was scary. One of my friends also treated me!! Again I say, HOORAY!!
The afternoon consisted of fun conversations and thankfully no singing waiters (which surprised me, I tied balloons to my chair and everything). Afterwards, I headed home only long enough to change as I got to go meet my best friend from childhood and her boyfriend for an evening at the movies and catching up over dinner. She kept pushing for us to meet early, which I love since most of my friends are always late or used to being late. Ahh~ She just gets me and my early tendencies.
We watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which, honestly, 90% of my excitement stemmed from the fact that it released on the day of my birthday. It was a great movie, but my thoughts mostly kept wondering how the events of the movie would effect the tv show (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.). I also kept wishing Coulson could have been in this movie, just jumping in for a cameo or something with him yelling at SHIELD for even considering Capt. America as an enemy lolol
After the movie we headed to Red Lobster for dinner. I know what you're probably not thinking, seafood again? Originally we were going to go to a hibachi place, but we were starving after the film and we didn't want to wait long for our food. Dunno if going to Red Lobster was the best remedy for that, considering when we got in we had to wait to be seated (we were 3rd in line) and we still had to order, but oh well.
It was a good night of catching up, talking out a lot of issues, and making jokes that sort of thing. She also treated me (!!! An action I refuse to overlook no matter how often it happens). Afterwards I headed home and ended up hosting a birthday stream for 4 hours XD (and for *yet another* nice surprise, a lot of friends came in!!) We made really dumb jokes, odd observations, and various rants; just like the old days. It really, truly was great.
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And that was my 25th birthday. The greatest birthday I've had in, well, forever. I literally have no regrets and I can't even think of anything that could have made it better. Even the crazy things like my sunburn, chipped tooth, B&N issues, didn't even matter, in fact, it just made the weekend that much more memorable :3
Sadder thing is, the ideal birthday for me would be just getting together with my closest friends, going out to a restaurant I want to go to and just sitting and eating and joking with each other. Maybe they'll all get together to treat me, that'd be just bliss. And maybe, if they had a chance, a simple present, but that's just extra sprinkles on top.
I've never had a birthday like that. But actually I don't think anything could make me happier.
Don't worry past!me, don't worry; it will happen. It'll take some time, but it will happen. *sniffle* I did not cry when I realized my birthday dream actually came true this year