I'm 23!!

Only another year until my next birthday... but I have this feeling that it can't top any of the birthdays that I've had during the past few years. This year, I didn't plan on doing much celebrating due to my crazy schedule and signs of old age, but it turned out 100 times better than I had ever imagined it to be. My friends are truly amazing... and I am blessed to have such thoughtful and caring people in my life. More details and pictures later... but right now, I must get back to reality and get some work done! :D

Again, thank you thank you thank you to everyone who made my birthday so memorable. Yes, and this includes the many text messages and phone calls that I received. Love you guys!

Recovery

I can't believe I almost didn't want to do anything last night. Man... it was a tad bit... crazy!

Details? Uhmmm... I doubt anyone would want that. Lets just say that my friends took GREAT care of me! :)

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Okay... since a few folks paged me and insisted that I get into details and I have a little bit of time, I will! Actually, let me see if I can cut and paste from prior conversations when I was trying to tell the story... LOL!

So last night, Arnold and Rolo picked me up from work. Took awhile to get to Del Rey's. Actually... took awhile to find parking. Chanh was already there and we were waiting for everyone else to show up. Remember, I did not have a bite to eat ALL day, so I was pretty hungry! We ordered at least 12 dishes of food... knowing that there aren't gonna be that many people there since it was such a late and last minute's notice. Before we got out food though, Arnold bought a round of shots. Stupid Thyda....

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I can't believe I almost didn't want to do anything last night. Man... it was a tad bit... crazy!

Details? Uhmmm... I doubt anyone would want that. Lets just say that my friends took GREAT care of me! :)

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Okay... since a few folks paged me and insisted that I get into details and I have a little bit of time, I will! Actually, let me see if I can cut and paste from prior conversations when I was trying to tell the story... LOL!

So last night, Arnold and Rolo picked me up from work. Took awhile to get to Del Rey's. Actually... took awhile to find parking. Chanh was already there and we were waiting for everyone else to show up. Remember, I did not have a bite to eat ALL day, so I was pretty hungry! We ordered at least 12 dishes of food... knowing that there aren't gonna be that many people there since it was such a late and last minute's notice. Before we got out food though, Arnold bought a round of shots. Stupid Thyda....

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Let me go ahead and cut and paste what I had told Jeff on GMail earlier today though about my morning:

i woke up this morning panicking because i was in grace's guest bed...

and had no idea what had happened

3:47 PM then it took awhile to realize that i went out the night prior

then panicked more because i didn't know where the hell my car was

looked out the window and saw my car there... but didn't know how it got there

then i didn't know where my car keys were...

3:48 PM looked at my phone and got a text message from rolo telling me where he put my car keys and my access key card

it was 5am....

so i talked to grace for a bit and drove home to federal way!!!

didn't have water in my car... and i was about to throw up!

it eased a bit once i got home... and it was almost 6am...

3:49 PM set my alarm clock to wake me up at 6:30... hopped into bed...

the room spun and then my guts wanted to say hello to the toilet

i said goodbye to the porcelain shrine by 6:20...

hopped back into bed... and my alarm went off shortly after

3:50 PM snoozed a total of 7 times (7 minutes each time)... so a total of 49 minutes later....

i still got no sleep since i kept having to wake up... my smart ass put my alarm clock on the other side of my room so i have to actually get up to hit snooze every time

finally hopped in the shower at about... 7:20ish...

felt woozy as the water hit my body... so i sat down in the shower... haha!

3:51 PM fell asleep until the water was cold

then... woke up and finished showering... hopped out at about 8am! LOL

and what do you know? i have to be at work at 8am... but its fine since i have a 2 hour leeway every day...

3:52 PM drove to work and got here at about 9ish... no makeup... hair wet and tied back... with a sweatshirt on... hehe!

so that concludes my aftermath

My email to the party animals who came out last night:

Let me just tell you guys something...


You guys are the best!!

Thank you so much for everything last night! I honestly don't even know what the heck happened, but I do remember being called Britney and cheesing like crazy! It was a great kick off for my birthday... and I believe that I am DONE celebrating for the month... haha! Well... maybe not completely done, but I are scared. LOL!

Don't spread rumors saying that I threw up on the table because I don't remember it, I don't believe it, and I would never... so stop making things up! :P

Seriously though, I don't know where I'd be without you guys. I'd probably still be at Del Ray hitting on that waitress with the cute short hair. Really though, I think I wanna go back and say HI to her... next year or something.


Email from Cindy:

That’s classic. And hun, it’s not gonna spread as a rumor that you threw up on the table, in the doorway of the bathroom then finally made it in the toilet lol because it’s all true. And let’s not forget you throwing up in front of the car, with Chris and Arnold holding you up while the po po was walking to his car giving us bad looks.

Oh and the server…… the one with the short hair? She was cute wasn’t she? Hahahahaa. She looks like your type lmao.

The Blues?

Its been crazy for me at work... to the point where I almost just wanna sit here and cry. I guess I'm sort of overwhelmed by it all, but I'm somewhat enjoying the crunch. I don't know if that makes sense, but it sure does to me.

Monday morning started off with an email from my boss... asking me when I'd like to have my in office birthday celebration... the Friday before or the Monday after since it falls on a Sunday this year. I figured, Friday would be best since everything's cooled down at work by then. So that's that. I didn't really feel like celebrating because I know that its been busy around here and honestly, I just have a lot on my plate right now... especially knowing that I'd be gone for nearly two days next week. (I know thats not a lot of time, but I guess I'm just nervous taking time off for the first time at a new job, yanno?) But hey... its always fun to just hang out with the coworkers for an hour or two during work hours.

Then, Nara emailed me asking me about my birthday plans. Honestly, again, I had nothing planned and really didn't intend to. I don't even feel like its anywhere near my birthday. And with the last few years being crazy partied out celebrations, I didn't know if I really needed to celebrate this time around. Besides, I know how stressful it is for almost everyone financial wise around this time of year... for me also. I think we've all been having crazy workloads lately, so she wanted to do something at her new condo this weekend... and I'm all up for something really low key. Therefore, this weekend's get together was perfect to me... and Nara's so sweet to do this for me. :)

Grace insisted that we do something tonight, so we are. Totally spontaneous and this morning, we didn't even know where we were going. In her words, we're going to "kick off" my birthday month tonight. Damn... a month is a long ass time to be celebrating... I think I'd die before Christmas! So yeah... Del Ray it is tonight... so sweet of her to coordinate and also nice of the people who are going to be here for me on such a last minute's notice. I'm telling you... I have the greatest friends ever! I can't wait to see them tonight... even when I look like crap with a huge red dot on my nose from picking and poking at a pore every night just because for the past two weeks or something like that. Ugh! Oh well... I guess Rudolph has some competition this year, doesn't he?

Despite the crazies at work, the ladies in the office are insisting that we all go out on Friday night after work. Will start it off at a bar nearby and paint the town red... or maybe turn it down a notch and just pink. I'm glad my coworkers and my friends can get along. Well, I'm sure they can this Friday... but boy... I'm kind of nervous at the thought of all these festivities. What's funny is that we had a semi conference call between some of the ladies to discuss the plans. Haha... I'm lucky to have such a fun and sweet bunch to call my coworkers... makes coming to work every morning much more pleasing and enjoyable.

Okay... I think they're almost here to pick me up to kick off my birthday month (haha)... wish me luck! :)

Let it Snow? Nah... lets not.

This past weekend, I did absolutely nothing and I really don't think I even stepped out of the house. But what else is new nowadays? Well actually, Friday night was relaxing and quite interesting. Turkey pho was served at Grace's house... accompanied by some good ol' wine. I told myself to save my appetite for the day and just indulge that evening... but I couldn't help myself. At about 3pm, I found myself burying my face in some spicy chicken teriyaki. Boy, was it good! :) I did have some turkey pho anyway, and it was pretty good. At first, I thought it was a "different" combination, but it turned out well... considering the fact that it was made by the Iron Chef himself. :)

Was supposed to go crabbing with the crew on Saturday, but what do you know? It snowed... on the first day of December! That obviously got cancelled... and so did the bachelorette party that I was somewhat looking forward to. I am NOT going to drive my poor little car in that kind of weather. Heck, I already hate driving in the rain... you'd gotta be kidding if you really think I'd want to drive in the snow.

So there you have it... I spent my entire weekend roasting my butt next to the fireplace all weekend long with the family. It was pretty nice since everyone came over. I guess my brother and cousins went fishing and brought over 4 HUGE salmons. Geez... I really think that I'll be having salmon for dinner for the entire month of December! Haha!