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My birthday is next week. Exactly 7 days to be exact. I'm doing a lot, but it's not like... a lot all at once.
This Friday, I'm getting off work at noon and at 1:00 I have an appointment to color my hair. I want it a little brighter red (not too bright or anything) and then have the girl style it. Since my appt. is at 1, I imagine she will be done by 3:30 at the latest. That gives me at least 30 minutes to do my makeup before meeting my co-workers at the Triangle Square in Costa Mesa. We are meeting at the Yard House for happy hour and dinner. Happy hour ends at 6, so about 6:30 we are going to drive the mile or so to "Casa Bar" which has happy hour at 7:00 lol. I plan on staying just a couple hours. There's live music and a dark ambiance (dark as in lighting, not dark gothic lol).
Saturday I don't have any plans until dinner. I'm meeting my friends at this place called East Side Mario’s for some Italian. Apparently this place is amazing so I'm looking forward to it. Then after dinner we are going to this bar close by called the Thirsty Isle. I only invited my close friends, so that it is more intimate. Last year I had about 18 friends meet for dinner and it was really hard for me to talk to them all and some I didn't have a chance to talk to them as much as I would have liked. So this year, I want just the homies. So far Angela, Mandy, Becka, John and Jeff are going. If it ends up being just them, that works for me! I just want to create more memories and take more pictures with my friends. After losing the ones I've lost, I know I will appreciate this later when I'm looking back. I want to try to minimize any regret too, ya know? I don't want to think "I should have called more often" or "I hadn't even seen him/her for so long and now I can't". I know it's morbid, but I'm trying to prevent this from happening. I lost my friend Tony 4 1/2 years ago and it had been over a year since I had talked to him. There was no reason why we hadn't spoken, so every day I wish I had made more of an effort. He was an awesome guy and a cool friend. I really miss him and wish we had more memories. So I want to avoid that from happening again.
Back to my birthday. Monday is my birthday, but I will be going into work. What I wanted to do ON my birthday the places are closed, so I have that happening on Tuesday. But on Monday, my co-workers are taking me to lunch. Then after work I'm driving to Ericka's house because we are going to Sushi for dinner. Nothing else after that, just spend the evening with my parents. But that will be nice :).
Tuesday, I'm meeting a few friends at the Broad museum in downtown LA. It's this amazing museum that has the "infinity room". I can't explain the room, so you will have to look it up. But only 1 person can go in at a time (max 2 people), and you have 45 seconds in there before it is the next person's turn. You can't reserve a spot beforehand, but once you are in the museum you can put your name on a list. I read that after the museum has been open for 2 hours, there are no more spots because the list is full for the day. Some people wait hours and hours for their turn. But if you look it up you will understand why.
After the museum, I'd imagine around 2pm we will walk to the Grand Central Market for lunch. It is an emporium that hosts food vendors and it looks pretty awesome. After lunch we will go to Griffith observatory to hang out and look at the exhibits and take advantage of all the photo ops. Dinner will be at this brewery that Suzanna recommends called "Golden Road Brewing" which she is really excited about. So that means now I am excited about it.
Then next Friday I am driving to Las Vegas to visit Liz. I'm really excited to see her. We are just going to do the local thing and staying away from the money hungry strip. I want to just hang out at a dive bar, get drunk at her house, go on a hike and hopefully laugh until I cry lol. I'm really looking forward to this.
That's about it!
This Friday, I'm getting off work at noon and at 1:00 I have an appointment to color my hair. I want it a little brighter red (not too bright or anything) and then have the girl style it. Since my appt. is at 1, I imagine she will be done by 3:30 at the latest. That gives me at least 30 minutes to do my makeup before meeting my co-workers at the Triangle Square in Costa Mesa. We are meeting at the Yard House for happy hour and dinner. Happy hour ends at 6, so about 6:30 we are going to drive the mile or so to "Casa Bar" which has happy hour at 7:00 lol. I plan on staying just a couple hours. There's live music and a dark ambiance (dark as in lighting, not dark gothic lol).
Saturday I don't have any plans until dinner. I'm meeting my friends at this place called East Side Mario’s for some Italian. Apparently this place is amazing so I'm looking forward to it. Then after dinner we are going to this bar close by called the Thirsty Isle. I only invited my close friends, so that it is more intimate. Last year I had about 18 friends meet for dinner and it was really hard for me to talk to them all and some I didn't have a chance to talk to them as much as I would have liked. So this year, I want just the homies. So far Angela, Mandy, Becka, John and Jeff are going. If it ends up being just them, that works for me! I just want to create more memories and take more pictures with my friends. After losing the ones I've lost, I know I will appreciate this later when I'm looking back. I want to try to minimize any regret too, ya know? I don't want to think "I should have called more often" or "I hadn't even seen him/her for so long and now I can't". I know it's morbid, but I'm trying to prevent this from happening. I lost my friend Tony 4 1/2 years ago and it had been over a year since I had talked to him. There was no reason why we hadn't spoken, so every day I wish I had made more of an effort. He was an awesome guy and a cool friend. I really miss him and wish we had more memories. So I want to avoid that from happening again.
Back to my birthday. Monday is my birthday, but I will be going into work. What I wanted to do ON my birthday the places are closed, so I have that happening on Tuesday. But on Monday, my co-workers are taking me to lunch. Then after work I'm driving to Ericka's house because we are going to Sushi for dinner. Nothing else after that, just spend the evening with my parents. But that will be nice :).
Tuesday, I'm meeting a few friends at the Broad museum in downtown LA. It's this amazing museum that has the "infinity room". I can't explain the room, so you will have to look it up. But only 1 person can go in at a time (max 2 people), and you have 45 seconds in there before it is the next person's turn. You can't reserve a spot beforehand, but once you are in the museum you can put your name on a list. I read that after the museum has been open for 2 hours, there are no more spots because the list is full for the day. Some people wait hours and hours for their turn. But if you look it up you will understand why.
After the museum, I'd imagine around 2pm we will walk to the Grand Central Market for lunch. It is an emporium that hosts food vendors and it looks pretty awesome. After lunch we will go to Griffith observatory to hang out and look at the exhibits and take advantage of all the photo ops. Dinner will be at this brewery that Suzanna recommends called "Golden Road Brewing" which she is really excited about. So that means now I am excited about it.
Then next Friday I am driving to Las Vegas to visit Liz. I'm really excited to see her. We are just going to do the local thing and staying away from the money hungry strip. I want to just hang out at a dive bar, get drunk at her house, go on a hike and hopefully laugh until I cry lol. I'm really looking forward to this.
That's about it!