My little love dumpling fed my ego a big ol' birthday cake!
I woke up to this post from adoraheatherly. It made me grin and cry and laugh.
This girl really is the most awesome friend ever so I just have to share the latest way she made me feel incredibly loved:
From Adora: 100 things I love about you, our friendship and the beautiful chaos that has been the past seven years.
100.) If my lame ass loser ex-boyfriend hadn't decided to become roommates with YOUR lame ass loser ex-boyfriend, we'd have never met. We may both be guilty of some dubious choices, but sometimes they pay off in the best of ways.
99.) Speaking of asses, I love that the first picture I ever saw of you was of... your ass. With an American flag painted on it, no less.
98.) I love the way you laugh. Hearing your cackle makes everything indescribably better in my world.
97.) I love your coastal North Carolina accent.
96.) I love the way you pronounce certain words. "Especially" is my favorite of all. I get a grin on my face every time you say it.
95.) I love your e-mails. Epics, brief commentary on weird or random stuff, bitching, whatever. I love them all.
94.) I love the way you express yourself. In every way, but with writing in particular. Love it so much that I could probably read novels of your various thoughts every single day and never get tired of them.
93.) I love seeing you perform total verbal eviscerations on dumbfucks who completely deserve it.
92.) I love your sense of humor. That it's such a major part of who you are, no matter what might be going on in your life at the time. Love that you can find the humor in even the most distressing situations.
91.) I love giving you good culinary phone sex on a regular basis.
90.) I love your propensity towards exhibitionism. I love how free and comfortable you are with your body.
89.) ... I also love the fact that I get to ogle a ridiculously hot naked chick on a regular basis. I ain't gonna lie.
88.) I love the way you've always been so unconditionally supportive. Some people might view this as enabling, but I see it as completely respecting me, my judgment and decisions. That's an amazing thing.
87.) I love the way our differences balance out so beautifully. You really do bring out the best in me.
86.) I love the way that chins can leave you so perturbed. And the way that you've ensured I'll never see them the same way again either.
85.) One word: fuckablephobia
84.) Two words: Space Needle
83.) I love getting fixated on the most random things imaginable with you. For example, remember this?
82.) I love your obsession with goats.
81.) No matter how frustrated you may get with the folks who are closest to you, I think you're just about the most loyal and devoted person I've ever met.
80.) I love that this goes double when it comes to your animals. They may drive you crazy more often than not, but you nurture and protect those critters better than many people do with their children.
79.) I love the way you tell a story. The stranger and more convoluted, the better.
78.) I love that you never run out of weird shit to share. Your propensity to find yourself in the strangest situations imaginable, most of all when you're not even looking for them.
77.) I'm sure the aforementioned weirdness helps, but the combination of that and everything you are in general still leaves me constantly fascinated after so many years.
76.) I love getting personally offended by and commiserating about the same grammatical mistakes.
75.) I love chattering about the myriad things that nobody else gets into quite the way that we do. Things like:
74.) The Amish
73.) Midgets
72.) Roman emperors
71.) My Irish/your Scots
70.) I love your capacity for learning and the fact that you're never satisfied with knowing only a little about anything that interests you.
69.) I love how incredibly open-minded you are. The way you listen and try to understand anything that's important to people you care about, even if it's far outside your realm of personal interest.
68.) I love the way you share the people you love with each other, even if they've never met. You have a way of getting to the heart of who a person really is. You paint them in such vivid detail that actual introductions are almost superfluous.
67.) I love that you're always the first person who pops in my head whenever I want to share something funny/strange/important.
66.) I love our yearly hurricane rivalry. That being said, I'll get you next year, bitch. ;)
65.) I know you can't always see it, but I love that every year you grow older, you only become more beautiful, more regal and more amazing.
64.) I love how boisterous you get when you're drinking. Seriously, you're probably the most amusing drunk I've ever met.
63.) I love spending eight hours on the phone, hanging up and immediately realizing there are about 10 different things I forgot to tell you.
62.) I love it when people ask if we are related. It's an amazing compliment from my perspective.
61.) ... though a little disturbing, knowing that at least some of these people have probably seen my relationship status on Facebook. *L*
60.) I love the way I can always mitigate how upset I am when people piss me off, simply by imagining how much fun I'm going to have bitching to you about them later.
59.) I love sharing our man drama with each other. Especially the hilarious parts, which we both seem to have an unending supply of.
58.) Hopping and crying, man. Hopping and crying.
57.) I love your screen caps. Love the way you always supply visual aids when sharing internet kerfuffles.
56.) I love discussing the perplexities of Southern culture with you. That we have such a similar way of relating to our backgrounds and strange cultural quirks.
55.) I love that we both share such a deep connection to the ocean, each being a coastal baby and all that.
54.) Despite that, I'm pretty glad you hate seafood. More shrimp for me!
53.) I love your photography. I may not know much about the technicalities, but I do know that from my perspective, you take some of the most beautiful pictures I've ever seen.
52.) I love when you sing for me. Yeah, it's only happened a couple of times, but it was awesome.
51.) I love our mutually shared desire to have hot, dirty sex with Alice Cooper.
50.) I love knowing that you make the same disgusted face that I do when anyone uses the words ramen and hot dogs in the same sentence.
49.) I love your boobs. You have one of the prettiest sets ever.
48.) I love the way you manage to find a way to relate to everything, especially the things it seems no one else could possibly understand.
47.) I love your earlobes.
46.) I love your cute little nicknames. I wouldn't let most people get away with calling me half the things that you do but from you, they're so very endearing.
45.) I love your seemingly endless capacity for empathy.
44.) I love the way we can bridge differing sets of interests and introduce each other to awesome things we may have never discovered otherwise.
43.) I love how you can tolerate even the cheesiest of the things I love without endlessly mocking me for them.
42.) I love your tattoo.
41.) I love always learning some new and fascinating facet of your personality, just at the very moment I think I've discovered them all.
40.) I love having those certain topics we bitch about in nearly every conversation, yet never seem to get tired of.
39.) I love your incredibly creative use of vulgarity, particularly at the most inappropriate times.
38.) I love the way you own up to yourself and everything you are, whether good or bad.
37.) I love your gumption. Actually, I just love using that word in general, but you do have a lot of it.
36.) I love listening to you talk about Jade. I know you love that little girl more than life itself and it really shines through in the way you express yourself when it comes to her. She's a fascinating kid either way, but there's nothing quite like listening to you describe all of the reasons why.
35.) I love the interesting and unexpected insults you come up with for people. You continually raise the bar for me when it comes to dogging folks up in creative ways.
34.) It may take a while but I love the way that, once you've made a firm decision, you stick to your guns without compromise.
33.) I love how easily distracted you can be, especially when sleep deprived.
32.) Related to that, I love the way we both end up going off on tangents whenever we talk, especially when we have to come back to the same subject three or four times just to finish it up.
31.) Another photography one, but I absolutely love the way you do self portraiture. Nearly all of my favorite pictures of you are those you took of yourself.
30.) I love your uncanny use of dramatic effect at just the right moment. Seriously man, sometimes that is sheer artistry. Especially when done to cleverly make a crucial point.
29.) I love shopping for you. You're one of the most enjoyable people in the world to shop for when I actually have the money.
28.) Fuzzy *giggle*
27.) I love plotting revenge with you, whether we go through with it or not. Love it even more when you actually DO carry it out... your schemes are awesome.
26.) I love our mutual boner for Keith Olbermann.
25.) I love it when you get all political, even in nonsexual ways.
24.) I love knowing that you're just as big of a fangirl as I am when it comes to certain things. You just hide it a little better than I do.
23.) I love it when I like a guy and you approve of his chin. I don't know why that means so much to me, but it does.
22.) I love your smile. I know that sounds ridiculously cliché, but I really do.
21.) I love it when you get all determined and self-righteous with good reason. Not only is it awesome to watch, but it's incredibly inspiring.
20.) I love how there are topics you know so much more about than I ever will. Poetry, Latin, word origins, photography... the list goes on. I love knowing that we'll never run out of things I can learn from from you.
19.) I love knowing that no matter what, I'll never be too weird for you. And vice versa.
18.) I love that whenever people decide I'm a lesbian, you're always the person they assume I'm sleeping with. Damn flattering, in my opinion.
17.) I love that, because of you, me and our experiences, skittering ain't just an adjective used for insects anymore. Unless of course, you consider bugs and the entities we're usually discussing one and the same. ;)
16.) Only slightly on topic but hey, I love that you introduced me to Pillars of the Earth! One more episode of the miniseries to go and halfway through the book. Not only am I loving it, as you knew I would, but I have to agree that Jack Jackson is my favorite character. He's so awesome...
15.) I already told you that I love your e-mails, but your subject lines deserve their own mention. I love how more often than not, I have a brief moment of "... what the fuck?" when I read them, before I actually open the message. You're so creative with that and it's yet another way you've inspired me... before you, most of my subject lines were either empty or just said "hey". *L*
14.) I love that you're a Virgo in every sense of the word. It was always my favorite sign of the zodiac, even before you came along.
13.) I love that you took my "woot" virginity.
12.) I love that you're using LJ again. Have I mentioned that? I have to get back into the habit of being a better commenter, but I've been reading everything you write.
11.) I love thinking about all of the ordinary household objects that would probably make us giggle for different reasons if we were in the same vicinity. "Hey Rachel, could you hand me that measuring tape?"
10.) I love the way you'll make crazy plans with me, whether feasible or not.
9.) I love that you make me feel like as long as I have you, I'll always have someone on my side.
8.) I love that you let me get all sappy with you, even if it might get you a little flustered sometimes. ;)
7.) I love that, even though you're by no means egotistical, you have a lot of confidence in yourself in areas where the majority of women do not. Makes me happy every time I hear you recognize and acknowledge something beautiful about yourself. I'm always glad when you can see what the rest of us do.
6.) I love that you have such a deeply developed sense of integrity. I've told you before and I'll say it again... I really admire your sense of pride, fairness and refusal to take advantage of others, even when you and I both know you could easily get away with it.
5.) I love the way you stick up for the people you care about when you feel like they are being unjustly treated.
4.) I love your taste in music and all of the wonderful songs/musicians you've introduced me to over the years.
3.) I love that you were the one who first introduced me to this song. It's beautiful nonetheless, but I doubt it would have ended up meaning half as much to me if it hadn't come from you.
2.) I love the fact that I've been lucky enough to have you in my life for the past seven years. I honestly don't know what I would've done without you.
1.) And most of all, I love the fact that even a list this large can't possibly begin to touch on how amazing you really are. Happy birthday, baby!
***
To be thought of that highly by even one person in the world, especially such an awesome person (yes, I said especially...*giggle*) makes me feel like I can't have done too badly over the last 31 years.
That feeling is a damn good birthday present.
Yes, I am MORE than sassified!
This girl really is the most awesome friend ever so I just have to share the latest way she made me feel incredibly loved:
From Adora: 100 things I love about you, our friendship and the beautiful chaos that has been the past seven years.
100.) If my lame ass loser ex-boyfriend hadn't decided to become roommates with YOUR lame ass loser ex-boyfriend, we'd have never met. We may both be guilty of some dubious choices, but sometimes they pay off in the best of ways.
99.) Speaking of asses, I love that the first picture I ever saw of you was of... your ass. With an American flag painted on it, no less.
98.) I love the way you laugh. Hearing your cackle makes everything indescribably better in my world.
97.) I love your coastal North Carolina accent.
96.) I love the way you pronounce certain words. "Especially" is my favorite of all. I get a grin on my face every time you say it.
95.) I love your e-mails. Epics, brief commentary on weird or random stuff, bitching, whatever. I love them all.
94.) I love the way you express yourself. In every way, but with writing in particular. Love it so much that I could probably read novels of your various thoughts every single day and never get tired of them.
93.) I love seeing you perform total verbal eviscerations on dumbfucks who completely deserve it.
92.) I love your sense of humor. That it's such a major part of who you are, no matter what might be going on in your life at the time. Love that you can find the humor in even the most distressing situations.
91.) I love giving you good culinary phone sex on a regular basis.
90.) I love your propensity towards exhibitionism. I love how free and comfortable you are with your body.
89.) ... I also love the fact that I get to ogle a ridiculously hot naked chick on a regular basis. I ain't gonna lie.
88.) I love the way you've always been so unconditionally supportive. Some people might view this as enabling, but I see it as completely respecting me, my judgment and decisions. That's an amazing thing.
87.) I love the way our differences balance out so beautifully. You really do bring out the best in me.
86.) I love the way that chins can leave you so perturbed. And the way that you've ensured I'll never see them the same way again either.
85.) One word: fuckablephobia
84.) Two words: Space Needle
83.) I love getting fixated on the most random things imaginable with you. For example, remember this?
82.) I love your obsession with goats.
81.) No matter how frustrated you may get with the folks who are closest to you, I think you're just about the most loyal and devoted person I've ever met.
80.) I love that this goes double when it comes to your animals. They may drive you crazy more often than not, but you nurture and protect those critters better than many people do with their children.
79.) I love the way you tell a story. The stranger and more convoluted, the better.
78.) I love that you never run out of weird shit to share. Your propensity to find yourself in the strangest situations imaginable, most of all when you're not even looking for them.
77.) I'm sure the aforementioned weirdness helps, but the combination of that and everything you are in general still leaves me constantly fascinated after so many years.
76.) I love getting personally offended by and commiserating about the same grammatical mistakes.
75.) I love chattering about the myriad things that nobody else gets into quite the way that we do. Things like:
74.) The Amish
73.) Midgets
72.) Roman emperors
71.) My Irish/your Scots
70.) I love your capacity for learning and the fact that you're never satisfied with knowing only a little about anything that interests you.
69.) I love how incredibly open-minded you are. The way you listen and try to understand anything that's important to people you care about, even if it's far outside your realm of personal interest.
68.) I love the way you share the people you love with each other, even if they've never met. You have a way of getting to the heart of who a person really is. You paint them in such vivid detail that actual introductions are almost superfluous.
67.) I love that you're always the first person who pops in my head whenever I want to share something funny/strange/important.
66.) I love our yearly hurricane rivalry. That being said, I'll get you next year, bitch. ;)
65.) I know you can't always see it, but I love that every year you grow older, you only become more beautiful, more regal and more amazing.
64.) I love how boisterous you get when you're drinking. Seriously, you're probably the most amusing drunk I've ever met.
63.) I love spending eight hours on the phone, hanging up and immediately realizing there are about 10 different things I forgot to tell you.
62.) I love it when people ask if we are related. It's an amazing compliment from my perspective.
61.) ... though a little disturbing, knowing that at least some of these people have probably seen my relationship status on Facebook. *L*
60.) I love the way I can always mitigate how upset I am when people piss me off, simply by imagining how much fun I'm going to have bitching to you about them later.
59.) I love sharing our man drama with each other. Especially the hilarious parts, which we both seem to have an unending supply of.
58.) Hopping and crying, man. Hopping and crying.
57.) I love your screen caps. Love the way you always supply visual aids when sharing internet kerfuffles.
56.) I love discussing the perplexities of Southern culture with you. That we have such a similar way of relating to our backgrounds and strange cultural quirks.
55.) I love that we both share such a deep connection to the ocean, each being a coastal baby and all that.
54.) Despite that, I'm pretty glad you hate seafood. More shrimp for me!
53.) I love your photography. I may not know much about the technicalities, but I do know that from my perspective, you take some of the most beautiful pictures I've ever seen.
52.) I love when you sing for me. Yeah, it's only happened a couple of times, but it was awesome.
51.) I love our mutually shared desire to have hot, dirty sex with Alice Cooper.
50.) I love knowing that you make the same disgusted face that I do when anyone uses the words ramen and hot dogs in the same sentence.
49.) I love your boobs. You have one of the prettiest sets ever.
48.) I love the way you manage to find a way to relate to everything, especially the things it seems no one else could possibly understand.
47.) I love your earlobes.
46.) I love your cute little nicknames. I wouldn't let most people get away with calling me half the things that you do but from you, they're so very endearing.
45.) I love your seemingly endless capacity for empathy.
44.) I love the way we can bridge differing sets of interests and introduce each other to awesome things we may have never discovered otherwise.
43.) I love how you can tolerate even the cheesiest of the things I love without endlessly mocking me for them.
42.) I love your tattoo.
41.) I love always learning some new and fascinating facet of your personality, just at the very moment I think I've discovered them all.
40.) I love having those certain topics we bitch about in nearly every conversation, yet never seem to get tired of.
39.) I love your incredibly creative use of vulgarity, particularly at the most inappropriate times.
38.) I love the way you own up to yourself and everything you are, whether good or bad.
37.) I love your gumption. Actually, I just love using that word in general, but you do have a lot of it.
36.) I love listening to you talk about Jade. I know you love that little girl more than life itself and it really shines through in the way you express yourself when it comes to her. She's a fascinating kid either way, but there's nothing quite like listening to you describe all of the reasons why.
35.) I love the interesting and unexpected insults you come up with for people. You continually raise the bar for me when it comes to dogging folks up in creative ways.
34.) It may take a while but I love the way that, once you've made a firm decision, you stick to your guns without compromise.
33.) I love how easily distracted you can be, especially when sleep deprived.
32.) Related to that, I love the way we both end up going off on tangents whenever we talk, especially when we have to come back to the same subject three or four times just to finish it up.
31.) Another photography one, but I absolutely love the way you do self portraiture. Nearly all of my favorite pictures of you are those you took of yourself.
30.) I love your uncanny use of dramatic effect at just the right moment. Seriously man, sometimes that is sheer artistry. Especially when done to cleverly make a crucial point.
29.) I love shopping for you. You're one of the most enjoyable people in the world to shop for when I actually have the money.
28.) Fuzzy *giggle*
27.) I love plotting revenge with you, whether we go through with it or not. Love it even more when you actually DO carry it out... your schemes are awesome.
26.) I love our mutual boner for Keith Olbermann.
25.) I love it when you get all political, even in nonsexual ways.
24.) I love knowing that you're just as big of a fangirl as I am when it comes to certain things. You just hide it a little better than I do.
23.) I love it when I like a guy and you approve of his chin. I don't know why that means so much to me, but it does.
22.) I love your smile. I know that sounds ridiculously cliché, but I really do.
21.) I love it when you get all determined and self-righteous with good reason. Not only is it awesome to watch, but it's incredibly inspiring.
20.) I love how there are topics you know so much more about than I ever will. Poetry, Latin, word origins, photography... the list goes on. I love knowing that we'll never run out of things I can learn from from you.
19.) I love knowing that no matter what, I'll never be too weird for you. And vice versa.
18.) I love that whenever people decide I'm a lesbian, you're always the person they assume I'm sleeping with. Damn flattering, in my opinion.
17.) I love that, because of you, me and our experiences, skittering ain't just an adjective used for insects anymore. Unless of course, you consider bugs and the entities we're usually discussing one and the same. ;)
16.) Only slightly on topic but hey, I love that you introduced me to Pillars of the Earth! One more episode of the miniseries to go and halfway through the book. Not only am I loving it, as you knew I would, but I have to agree that Jack Jackson is my favorite character. He's so awesome...
15.) I already told you that I love your e-mails, but your subject lines deserve their own mention. I love how more often than not, I have a brief moment of "... what the fuck?" when I read them, before I actually open the message. You're so creative with that and it's yet another way you've inspired me... before you, most of my subject lines were either empty or just said "hey". *L*
14.) I love that you're a Virgo in every sense of the word. It was always my favorite sign of the zodiac, even before you came along.
13.) I love that you took my "woot" virginity.
12.) I love that you're using LJ again. Have I mentioned that? I have to get back into the habit of being a better commenter, but I've been reading everything you write.
11.) I love thinking about all of the ordinary household objects that would probably make us giggle for different reasons if we were in the same vicinity. "Hey Rachel, could you hand me that measuring tape?"
10.) I love the way you'll make crazy plans with me, whether feasible or not.
9.) I love that you make me feel like as long as I have you, I'll always have someone on my side.
8.) I love that you let me get all sappy with you, even if it might get you a little flustered sometimes. ;)
7.) I love that, even though you're by no means egotistical, you have a lot of confidence in yourself in areas where the majority of women do not. Makes me happy every time I hear you recognize and acknowledge something beautiful about yourself. I'm always glad when you can see what the rest of us do.
6.) I love that you have such a deeply developed sense of integrity. I've told you before and I'll say it again... I really admire your sense of pride, fairness and refusal to take advantage of others, even when you and I both know you could easily get away with it.
5.) I love the way you stick up for the people you care about when you feel like they are being unjustly treated.
4.) I love your taste in music and all of the wonderful songs/musicians you've introduced me to over the years.
3.) I love that you were the one who first introduced me to this song. It's beautiful nonetheless, but I doubt it would have ended up meaning half as much to me if it hadn't come from you.
Click to view2.) I love the fact that I've been lucky enough to have you in my life for the past seven years. I honestly don't know what I would've done without you.
1.) And most of all, I love the fact that even a list this large can't possibly begin to touch on how amazing you really are. Happy birthday, baby!
***
To be thought of that highly by even one person in the world, especially such an awesome person (yes, I said especially...*giggle*) makes me feel like I can't have done too badly over the last 31 years.
That feeling is a damn good birthday present.
Yes, I am MORE than sassified!