This birthday definitely was! For one thing, I turned 3-0! Gosh, even writing that down felt so...weird. When I was sixteen 30 was ancient. So here I am, all ancient, and STILL feeling as uncertain as a teenager when it comes to certain things!
Mark surprised me with dinner at Fish & Co (YUM!YUM!) in Trinoma--it's actually an entire belt of restaurants/bars/cafes on the roof of the mall. I felt like I never left Greenbelt 3 actually--it's pretty much the same restaurants there! The area is very pretty though, with lots of landscaping, a bridge, a koi pond (I think) and lots of outside tables for blissful smoking diners. Unfortunately, it was drizzly so we opted to stay inside. Also unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera!!! I have nothing to document our dinner :(
All throughout the day I kept getting birthday messages--and I'm always touched by people who I haven't heard from in a while but who without fail always greet me! I'm pretty sure I'm programmed into their phones, LOL.
Mark's gift to me was the amazing NSD online allowance, so I was not expecting anything anymore. Then Saturday morning I open my email and receive the thrill of the entire weekend!
It was ChereKaye of OCD, Funkyplayground Designs, and she'd accepted me into her Creative Team!!!!
And it was a good thing Mark wasn't home because I let out this unearthly yell of delight--nothing ladylike about it at all, unfortunately. I'd applied to Chere's CT call because well, her stuff's awesome, but also, her existing team members are the bomb! They'd pretty much hijacked Chere's CT Call thread over at MSA and made it something entertaining for the entire board, LOL.
So the official announcement was made over the boards and Chere's blog:
And we got started right away with stuff to play with and all sorts of discussions in the board. Pretty exciting stuff, and the energy of this team is amazing! I'm particularly happy about this team because it is the first I've applied to and was accepted to! Granted, my other CTs all asked me if I could join, which is amazingly flattering in itself! This one though, I felt I really had to work for :) Well, actually, I really DID have to work for it :D
So now I've even more scrapping commitments up the wazoo. But I couldn't be happier--I'll say it again: there's nothing like the warmth and general comfiness of hanging out in the scrapbooking community.