Birfday!

So, yesterday was birthday.  I wasn't planning on doing anything special since mom is in Nicaragua and because I didn't HAVE to do anything.  I was really looking forward to it!  And I got it.  I slept in until about 11 and when I woke up, I had 2 missed calls.  Being my normal self, I didn't check messages or anything until about 12:30 pm.  I had missed 2 more calls while I was just messing around on the computer.

I got nifty birthday messages from my mom (and Thomas), my dad, my aunt and uncle and Mikey.  They were absolutely wonderful!  I also had tons of facebook messages from a lot of people.  I guess since I had always done birthday with the family, I never realized how many good friends I had.  On top of that, when I had to go to my mentor meeting with Thomas, he gave me the cutest card with the sweetest message inside.  I also happened to get my birthday card from Aunt Lori and Gammy the night before (which included a $50 Starbucks giftcard) so I'm working on my card collection.

Then, when I got to the room, the door was double-bolted!  I was soo confused, but when I knocked, Allegra let me in to show me that she had set up a little birthday "surprise."  She had cleaned the dishes (which I hate doing) and made the counter up with little star confetti (I kept it), a tissue paper crane (nifty looking it was), my presents (3 Kit-Kats and 2 little stuffed sheep) and a really sweet note.  I was shocked.  Not because it was out of character, but because I honestly wasn't expecting it.  So then we had some cake to celebrate and it was definitely still yummy!

After that, I had made plans to meet with Ali (and to meet her mother) real quick so I could get my present from her.  She'd been teasing me all week with it, so I was really excited.  I expected it to me some earrings like her mother made, because I know that I've talked about how I envy her jewelry, but I get some home-made brownies with cream-cheese icing!  Which was sooo much better!  Not to knock the jewelry or anything, but because chocolate is always bueno!  Haha.

So now, I have chocolate cake, brownies and kit-kats sitting in the fridge.  Apparently all my friends want me to get fat for my birthday.  Lol.

Then later in the evening, my mom called!  It's really expensive to make international calls and they can only do it in the cities, but I was sooo glad to hear from her!  But she sounds like she's having fun so I'm happy for her.  And now, we have the start of the last week of school for my freshman year...

Birthday Dinners and Amazing Friends

My birthday is on Sunday and I wanted to do something to celebrate with my friends.  I hate being alone on my birthday and like to spend it surrounded with friends.  So I made plans to go go-karting and putt putting on Thursday (when it was 50% off) at Austin's Park and Pizza.

Needless to say, life got in the way.  I invited Allegra, Ali and Joanna to accompany me on this adventure.  However, Ali ended up needing to study for a quiz, which was no big because grades always come first and Joanna needed to be back by 7 for a study session for a mid-term she had today.  We didn't end up leaving the Castilian until 4:15 which means we really didn't get to my truck (our means of transportation) until around 4:40.  When we finally embarked, we hit traffic which slowed us down significantly.

I decided that it would be more economical and time-saving if we just went out to dinner.  Not that I didn't want to go eat Mexican food.  Which I did.  Because I haven't had good Mexican food in a long while.  Lol.  So we went to Chuy's, which turned out to be fun, despite the really small booths.  Joanna, as per usual, got quesadillas, and Allegra and I split nachos and fajita enchilada's (which ended up being too spicy for me to eat anyway).  We finished dinner in about an hour, which gave us plenty of time to get back on time for Joanna's study session.

Note to self:  Best birthday gift for Joanna is sopapillas.  With cinnamon.  And powered sugar.  End note.

I don't think we used the Tom-Tom (my wonderful gift from my Aunt and grandmother for my birthday) to get back to the Castilian, and just relied on Allegra's directions, which managed to get us back to I-35.

Needless to say it was a fun and well-spent evening.

Then, this morning I woke up at 6 a.m. to finish some homework that I didn't complete the night before.  Upon stepping (or jumping) out of bed, my foot decided to scream in agony and attempted to collapse under me.  No drama intended.  It just hurt that much.  Considering that I couldn't walk across the room without being in immense pain, walking to classes was out of the question.  So I emailed my professors and went back to sleep.

When I woke up, I was not feeling much better and my foot still hurt.  So when Joanna called (called, not texted) to see if I wanted to go to lunch with her slash just sit with her while she ate, I explained why I could not.  And then she did the most amazing thing!  After she was done eating, she came up to the room and told me she was going to bring me food!  And she did!  It was the nicest thing that someone has done for me in a while.  I am so grateful and lucky that I have such amazing friends.  I love having friends like this.  :)

P.S.  As a sad side-note, I didn't get Rapoport, but I don't feel too depressed about it.  I can't decide if I'm in shock and haven't accepted it or I just know that everything will work itself out.  Oh well.  Only time will truly tell.