Anyone know? Because I'm going to try. I'll likely fail but if I never try, I'll never know.
MY BIRTHDAY WAS THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER.
It started two nights before the actual day. Mr. Smith was leaving town so he and I planned ahead and had a homemade melting pot night!
nom nom nom fancy food tastes better in your pjs nom nom
And he gave me not one but TWO presents!
here is my portrait framed - YES IT'S HANGING ABOVE THE MANTLE (i'm so scarlett sometimes!)
and here is my master's degree and bachelor's framed all pretty together. i have it hanging in my office and several people throughout the day came by and commented that they'd had no idea i had a master's degree. my reply: "well, now you can SEE how smart i am. wait a minute. you didn't already know?" hahahahhahahah i'm hilarious...
After supper Mr. Smith went downstairs to work and having a free moment I turned on the television. One of my all-time FAVORITE MOVIES FROM CHILDHOOD WAS ON (seriously. it was like someone was reading my mind and putting all fun things in front of my face.) No joke, I ran to the top of the stairs and told Mr. Smith to not bother coming upstairs anytime soon because A. he would be miserable and B. I did not care because C. Summer Magic was on and I had therefore D. commandeered the television set.
i wanted to BE hayley mills growing up and now i do all over again. i don't know how one goes about doing that but i'm sure gonna try. i think it has a lot to do with wearing dresses and calling them 'frocks' and 'pinafores.' i'm gonna try that and see where it gets me.
At work the next day I noticed this sign. Anyone else find this amusing?
it's posted on a handrail. i hope i DO NOT TOUCH!! and trip and fall and can sue the state for a gagillion dollars!!! no i don't so much...
The next night was pre-birthday party! The City of Knoxville obviously recognized because they arranged for one of my most favorite bands to come and play a concert! Here they are, see?
blues traveller! *cue harmonica!*
I called about six weeks ago and asked to be put on the wait list for Oodles. They told me I was fifth in line. I thanked the hostess then promptly called my friend Shawn to help a girlfriend out for her birthday. She. Came. Through. She also told me when we were walking to Oodles that people were calling that day and were told that they were 100th in line and they said, OK let me know if I get a table. It. Was. PACKED and we had best seats in the house - Shawn, I O U big time!!!
shawn and kristina bask in the glow of oodles pre-performance. shawn, you're welcome to my first-born, if you like
AND GUESS WHAT!!! My party was so fancy that mother of two, Missus Jenny Jen Mowrer....
took a night off. i'm told she turned on the boob tube and made sure the stove was off and stuff before she left the house.
Other fancy-pants attendants included:
amanda and a peace-loving, and fellow june 4ther, john johnson (happy bday shout out!)
ready to get down and parasite-free marty mason, and mr. rob cash
And... there were other people. Lots more. They came by and said hello and had fun and had a drink and .... well, the place was PACKED! It was insanity!
To wit: please enjoy a photo montage of me looking alluringly in every direction... except in the direction of the camera.
i feel pretty! oh so pretty! and witty! and happy! and ggaaaaayyyy!!!
hey guys, my eyes are HERE. i mean, HERE!!! i mean.... i don't know...
ooops, kinda close on this one! almost there! hold on hold on....
well, missed the window; maybe we'll catch her on the next pass...
AAAAAH!!! you made her mad! you made them all mad!!!
jeez. all right, this is the best we got....
thank you all for coming out! i had SO SO SO MUCH FUN!!
The next morning was my official birthday. Some months ago, Pretty Princess Rachel Ann Landry had asked to spend the night so I took the day off! When I found out she wasn't getting there until 9 PM.... I still took the day off. I slept in until 7. Then, I took a bubble bath.
if you need the date stamp for proof, i will provide.
Then... I felt sleepy. So... then. I went back to bed. Until noon.
I felt a little bad about that because I'd gotten nothing accomplished other than moving about four chapters ahead in my book. So I rallied and was making lunch when the UPS truck stopped at my house. Fortunately - no signature required because I was still working on 'fully dressed' by the time Mr. UPS was back in the truck. He came back in when he heard me scream though....
my in-laws sent me chocolates from my favorite store in new orleans. it was packed in ice. it. was. awesome. i seriously cried a little. it was PERFECT.
Also a sign from God that I should chillax for the day. So I went back to bed.
And if it's proof that I was so excited about my chocolates; when I woke up (at four; I truly am a little embarrassed):
this was how it was delivered - i tore it open like a mad woman. and left everything just where it lay!
Well, if you thought the party stopped there, you'd be WRONG! I cleaned up and headed out to Mama and Daddy's for a party with friends and family!
the children were very good at helping me open up 'my' glow-in-the-dark bracelets - iris, max, lottie and june all look on in eager anticipation.
iris is giving me the bottle of nail polish she picked out - all those children were so stinkin' cute!
jenny had the idea of giving me a running SKIRT (ahem; see above re: haley mills) I MEAN, a running pinafore. i'm going to start running like a LADY, ya'll. but i think i'm going to have up my top game - i run in old mens' undershirts - that does not GO with a RUNNING SKIRT, yo! i have two running skirts because jenny thought of the idea and shared it with mama, and mama totes shanghi'ed her idea so now i have two! mama! haha - love it - thank you mowrers and venable, srs!!
Next! Better than Sucre or running skirts, and to add to the wonderful visits from family and friends:
miss rachel ann landry showed up. she was driving through town and needed a place to lie her weary head and mama and daddy let us both spend the night. i had a spend the night party for my birthday. it. was. AWESOME. of course... i did wake up in the middle of the night and shriek "WHERE AM I??!!!" to which rachel replied: "your parents." me: *head flop back on pillow* ZZZZZZ......
And I don't talk in my sleep. I seriously remember doing that. Oops.
The next morning - new adventure! Jake the Florida Dog stuck in a car from NY State was really excited about running around in the woods!
Until...
we had to pick ticks off him. there's the matches we burned them with - i kept trying to tell rach they were hard to kill and she kept trying and trying to crush them so i started burning them. good times!!
Here is my quasi-birthday present gift photo:
my roses from iris (irony!), june and rachel, my portrait from tommy, and my flowers from the venables, jrs-ish. thank you all! i love especially my card from the venables, jrs-ish of a girl in cowboy boots, a tutu/leotard and wings. i wish i had that outfit on RIGHT NOW!
And with that - I retire upstairs to enjoy the last of my birthday weekend. I have a movie Jenny lent me (new Alice in Wonderland!) and leftover supper from Friday (LaSagna!) and will have Mr. Smith home tomorrow. Thank you to all for making 36 start off with a BANG! Love you all!
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