…work potlucks ROCK. I am sitting at my desk eating a Fudgesicle. MMMMmmmmmmm!
…this Fudgesicle also happens to be sugar-free which, to me, translates to guilt-free!
…typing with one hand really slows me down. But its really hard to hold the Fudgesicle with no hands and not drip it all over the place.
Simeon lets me sort my Sour Patch Kids by color. He even helped! Without teasing me. God, I love this man.
(Oh and this photo was taken while we were seeing Dukes of Hazzard over the weekend with my new camera phone. Yeah, that my husband got for me ’cause he didn’t want me to ever be without a camera. And that’s reason 865, baby!)
On one of my many trips to the bathroom, I realized I needed to, um, take care of somethings while I was in there (if you catch my drift) so I grabbed my purse and fished out a tampon. Then I realized my fancy-work-pants do not have pockets, which presents me with the problem of walking through the lobby of my office (complete with co-workers and clients) to get to the restroom out in the hall with a tampon in my hand. So what do I do? What else?! I toss the tampon down my shirt and it settles nicely between the girls. And you know what, it didn’t occur to me that it was at all silly until I actually got into the restroom. Then I rolled my eyes at myself and thought, “Ohmigod. What did I just do? I totally feel like I am in high school again!”
Ok, so I know my birthday was practically a week ago, but what fun would it be if I only celebrated for a day and moved on? No thank you! So I wanted to share the photos that I finally uploaded (with Sim’s help, since we needed a new program to actually get them onto my site.) from the two parties we had. 
The first was primarily family, with a few die-hard friends who could actually make it (I love you guys the mostest!), a few of them for only a few minutes as they had to return to work or had another commitment. But my family hung out and everyone got silly and surprisingly everyone behaved! (Now I know most families have dysfunction, but mine sometimes a little more than most, as we are filled with all sorts of drama that prevents us all from gathering in the same place without having at least one person scream obscenities while someone else bursts into tears. Hey, it happens.)
Then on Wednesday we continued to celebrate my birthday (in a drastic attempt to rid my house of cake!) with our near and dear friends. We had the die-hards who rarely miss a week (Nick and Megan), some we were surprised to see (David and Jason), and some we are welcoming back into our circle with open-arms (Jen and Mitch). It was a great balance. The boys busted out the video games and played foos ball while us girls browsed through photos (Lindsay is just too cute not to share!) and talked. It was perfect.
Oh yeah, and my loving husband bought me a Harry Potter birthday cake, complete with a Harry figurine and “Tom Riddle’s Diary” you can actually write on. It doesn’t get any better than that! There are a few more pictures in the Carrie’s Birthday Parties gallery.
Sorry that the pictures aren’t up yet (I don’t even know if there are any good ones, since I didn’t take ’em) but I was home sick yesterday with a migraine. Urgh. No fun at all. I was stuck in bed all day holding onto my head, praying for it to stop. I think its a result of going off the BCPs and now my hormones are all a mess. What fun times I have ahead! Yippee! So after getting caught up here at work, I am now leaving the office for the rest of the day to attend a seminar/conference thingy. Yeah, it’s that technical. So the pictures will have to wait another day since tonight is my weekly Wednesday night dinner. Oh and there may be more pictures added to them, since we are kinda celebrating tonight too. Mostly because I have an ENTIRE cake left, but also to share my birthday love with those who missed the party on Sunday. Ok, gotta run now. Adios amigos!
I was just checking my Yahoo! email and a survey popped up asking for my opinion. I am all about giving my opinion (that and I was bored) so I clicked ok. It said it should take about 10 minutes (which I totally had) and wanted to know my thoughts on their services and products. The first question was my age bracket. Instinctually, I went for the “18-24” option but then I stopped. I was no longer in that age bracket! I was up a bracket!! So I, sadly, clicked the “25-34” option. Then to my dismay, it said “Thank you. We already have enough information from this sector.”
Damn 25. What a let down!
Wow! All I can say is I was actually surprised. For those of you who don’t know, my lovely husband threw me a surprise party for my birthday. Well, to be totally honest, he had to, since it is a standing tradition in my family that for your 25th birthday, you get a surprise party. Which makes it harder and harder to actually surprise the person. But my honey sure did surprise me.
My weekend was following the itinerary to a tee up to the point where we came home from lunch with my boss. We pulled into the garage of my (seemingly) quiet house and I grabbed the leftover cake from lunch and headed inside…to find about twenty people in my family room! I just about threw the cake in the air because I thought I was being robbed. Then once they all shouted “SURPRISE!!” I realized it was just my family and friends breaking into my house, bringing food and gifts to celebrate ME! So I guess you could say we stuck right to the plan of making the day ALL ABOUT ME!!
Well, to be totally honest, I must admit that I kinda had my suspicions about the party. All the phone calls in which Simeon would wander out of the room, the fact that practically no one called me to wish me a happy birthday, how Simeon took a lot longer time getting home on Friday after work, etc. all kinda tipped me off. But then I started thinking that maybe I was just wanting him to throw me a party so much that I was imagining it all. And not wanting to be disappointed if he didn’t plan anything, I quickly dismissed it. However I was totally shocked to have all those people at my house when I returned. If anything, I figured he would have had them all meet us at a restaurant that evening when he was going to take me out to dinner. So it was a very good thing that I was dressed in a cute outfit and actually wearing make-up when he decided to have the party (unlike when we returned from breakfast that morning!).
All in all it was a great party. There was tons of food and most of my family (we all missed you, Darcie!) was there, including a couple of my friends. I know that due to circumstances beyond their control, my other friends would have been there too. But you guys all filled my inbox with e-cards and birthday wishes that totally made up for the fact that you couldn’t make it. Don’t worry, I forgive you all!
There aren’t too many pictures, you know, since I was kinda being the center of attention and trying to get my shit together after the big surprise thing. But what I did manage to remind Simeon to take, I will upload tonight and get those on here tomorrow. But I wanted to thank each and every one of you for being in my life. You all make it fabulous and I can’t imagine it without ya. To another year, baby! I love you guys!