I honestly don't feel old enough to be 27, if that makes any sort of sense... but here I am. I feel pretty much the same as I did a few years ago, like not much has changed between 24 and now. 3 years isn't that long of a period of time anyway, so it makes sense.
This year I defied convention and didn't really plan any birthday extravaganzas or week-long celebrations like I have in years past. I've just been so busy with everything that my birthday was almost an afterthought, but it's not a bad thing at all.
The past two weeks I've been traveling work meetings right after we finished moving in to our new home while at the same time moving our offices to a new location so my whole life has been in boxes and suitcases. Two weeks ago I went to St. Louis, a city in which I've never really spent any time other than layovers in the airport, and found that it really was a nice place to get away from the dreary NW weather for a couple of days. It was pretty sunny and warmer than I'm used to (so really in the 60's, but that's warm to me!) which was nice and after our meetings we got to take a tour of the Anheuser Busch Brewery in St. Louis. It was actually pretty fascinating and I love that they have the Clydesdale stables on site as well. After that tour we took a private- after-hours tour of the Busch Stadium where the St. Louis Cardinals play and I was surprisingly entertained for someone who doesn't know a thing about baseball or really care to.
I came home for a couple days and then headed out to Phoenix for my meeting and was so happy to be able to pack shorts and tank tops! I even got a slight hint of a "tan" on my pasty-white face and arms! That was worth the trip. But it was a crazy busy week filled with meetings and awards and food and line dancing and birthdays and more food and then some cake with a side of cake and then more meetings. I was more than ready to come home and sleep in my own bed and be able to hang out with BF and the puppies.
Some of BF and my friends came up from Corvallis to stay the night on their way to Seattle so we went out with them on Friday night for burgers and a great Black and Tan brownie with Ice Cream. Like I needed that! Saturday we just did house stuff (more unpacking and finally we got our bedroom curtains up- no more white sheet thumb-tacked to the wall!). Sunday we slept in and went to my parents' house for my birthday dinner. My mom made shrimp and my dad grilled steak and we had some mashed potatoes with gravy, corn on the cob, and some really awesome homemade cornbread. For dessert my mom got a HUGE red velvet cake that we enjoyed with ice cream. I love me some red velvet, but cream cheese frosting is RICH.
After the food came the birthday presents and some would say that I'm completely lame for asking for mostly house-related stuff for my gifts, but I don't really need anything else. I got a garden hose, some garden statues (owls of course, and one lights up!) a double boiler (to make yogurt), some fancy blush that I usually don't buy for myself, movie tickets and some to-be-purchased curtains- my mom wanted me to pick them out so once I do I will have them. It was an awesome night I was happy to just be with BF and my family, it was a nice change of pace.
This week I'm digging out of boxes to get the rest of the house and my office set up. Next week I'm off to Chicago for a few days, and then Spring Break! I took the whole week of Spring Break off so BF and I could hang out and so I could go visit family in NY for a couple days. Fingers crossed that the country starts warming up before the break!
2 comments:
You also received a ukelele.... I hear it's pretty awesome.
OH yeah!!!!
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