Birthday Goodness

Yesterday ended up being a good day.   Even though I was dreading it.  :)

I know I mentioned casually here that I had cried about the fact that I was turning forty but the truth is, I was really freaking out.  My apologies to the friends I know in real life for the phone calls, texts, and e-mails I sent over the last 2 days lamenting my upcoming birthday.
And also, thanks for being there for me.  

I have the best friends.

By the time I woke up yesterday I was feeling much better and my birthday was really nice.

My Co-worker DeAnn celebrated with me on Tuesday, since we aren't in the office on Wednesdays.  She really went all out to make my day special.  

Thank you DeAnn!  

If I don't look thrilled in this picture, see above about me freaking out about turning 40.

Love these candles

She did all of this, and even got me a gift card for a massage.  Coincidentally, my sister got me a gift card for the same place so it looks like I will be getting TWO massages.  Woo hoo!  

On my actual birthday, Joe and I used a gift card we had to go to lunch at Ruby's.  

Our Ruby's is overlooking a lake. It's really pretty.

View from our table

Do I look any older?

 Joe knows my love of sour candy and he brought me a whole bucket of sour belts from Costco. This is not going to help me with my NY's resolution of kicking my sugar habit.  

A veritable boatload of sour candy.  I need to exercise restraint when eating these.  

The Red Velvet cake from Costco is To.  Die.  For.

I have been dreaming about it since we had it at Lisa's house at Christmas.

Cake!   I put an unspecified number of candles on the cake 

but it was enough that it looked like it would burst into flames

 if I waited one second longer to blow them out.

 I had a ginormous slice.  For dinner.
Seriously, that's all I ate that night for dinner.
It was my birthday, o.k.?

Lisa sent me this yummy shower gel.  I can't use it without singing 

"Put the lime in the coconut and drink em both up" over and over and over. 

 Drives Joe insane.

(It's coconut lime scented)

She also sent me this really cool wallet.  Sorry the picture is so bad.

I lost the charger for my camera(again).  

Another one of my NY's resolutions was to be more organized.

Failed again. This is why I don't make resolutions.

Isn't it cute though?

Inside the wallet was a gift card to Target.  PLUS she got us a gift card to go out to eat.

 She really went overboard with the presents(as usual).  I'm so lucky!!!

Thanks Sees-ter!

Joe got me a cute little datebook as well,

 which I desperately needed to help achieve my goal of being more organized.  

Overall it ended up being an awesome birthday.  I am so blessed.

P.S. on my very first day of being forty I did the stupidest thing.  DeAnn and I were on our lunch break and we went to the post office.  We left the post office and were walking over to the place we were going to have lunch.  I was walking along and  looking into a store window(not where I was going at all) and I ran right into a bench that was in the middle of the walkway.  Because I was walking kind of fast and I didn't see it at all, I slammed into it HARD.  Like so hard my whole body jarred and my teeth clacked together.  Of course my legs came out from under me and I fell face down on the bench, landing on my right arm and my left knee.  

OWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!  

Oh man it hurt so bad.    I am such a klutz!  Now my arm is turning lots of pretty colors and it is extremely tender to touch.  Aside from being hurt I was so embarrassed I wanted to die.

Not the best start to my 40's!

You Say It's Your Birthday

It's my birthday too, yeah!  That's my favorite birthday song.  I sing it all the time to people on their birthdays, even if it's not mine too.   But today when I sing it it's true.



Today is my seest-er's 40th birthday.  I like it better when I phrase it like that.  My sister's 40th birthday.  Not mine.


O.K. it's mine too.  Blah.  I'm not excited about this one.  I don't want to be forty.  


 I'm not where I thought I would be at 40.  


Where I hoped I would be.  


I'll be perfectly honest, I have cried the last two days over this birthday.  How stupid is that? To cry over a birthday??  But I did.  I am feeling better about it today.


Heck, I should feel lucky to be having birthdays at all.  


Age  just a number. Right? You're only as old as you feel.  Wait, that one doesn't work for me because some days I feel really old.  Whatever.


Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah.  I'm forty.  And my sister is too.


Happy Birthday Sees-ter!


In honor of our 4oth birthdays, I dug out some pictures of me and my sees-ter over the last 40 years.  I honestly have no idea of some of the dates, so I'll do my best to guestimate.  Some of these have terrible resolution. Sorry bout that.

A few days old.    No idea who is who here

I'm guessing about a year old.  1972 maybe?  I think I am on the left.

 Or maybe the right. 

Oh, I don't know.  One of them is me.  

Any guesses? (Joe says left)

Two(or so) years old.  Really crummy pic. I actually have no idea which one I am in this picture. You know what's funny?  I couldn't tell in a lot of these pictures and Joe had to have a look and tell me.  Is that weird?  That I can't tell myself apart in pictures?  Don't answer that.   I think the answer is Yes.  The quality is so bad not even Joe could tell in this one.

       9 years old I think.  1981 or so.  I loved that ski jacket.  

And who wouldn't?  It's so fashionable.

I think this was the same year. 

 I only put it in here because of the roller skates I'm wearing.  

I never took them off.  I think I even slept in them.

A year older than the last picture I think

Strange but I can't find any pictures between age 10 or so and 8th grade. 

Just imagine 3 or 4 years have passed.

8th grade.  1984/85

Senior year.  1989 grad party

                                        I think this was around 1991 or 1992.  Love Joe's hair!

We had matching bangs for a couple of years.  

             And we had our very own table for Christmas dinner, which is made of awesome.

No idea the date but taken sometime after that last picture but before the next one.

Mid-90's with our horses.  I'm kind of surprised I don't have a ton more of us 

riding together, seeing as those we spent every waking hour from 1984-1994 at the stables, 

 but if I do I can't find them.

This was one of the last Christmases that my Mom was alive, so 1995.   Or 1996.  

I'm really bad with dates.  And math.

Late 90's

This was the year before Cameron was born.

                                                   Christmas 2000, with her crazy dog Junior.

Cameron's first Christmas, so 2001

2003, Disneyland

This was taken in China.   August, 2004, on the Pearl River Cruise. 

 I loved being in China. 

 Except for the heat, it was the best trip of my life.

Gracie wouldn't look at the camera 

because she really wanted a drink of that soda Lisa is holding.

Also 2004, later in the year.  For some reason we decided to go out to 

The RainForest Cafe on New Year's Eve to celebrate our birthdays.  

It was really crowded.  And Grace was mesmerized by the sparkler on the sundae.  

2006

This is one of my favorite pictures. This was our 35th birthday.  

2009.  Scrapbook Expo

Christmas 2009 skating at the  rink in Union Square

Summer 2010.  My friend DeAnn took these great pictures of us over the summer.  

I chose this one because I LOVE the look on Grace's face.  

Can you tell she was done with the picture taking at this point?  LOL.

Feb. 2010  Cruise to Mexico

Christmas 2010

                                                                

You say it's your birthday

It's my birthday too, yeah

They say it's your birthday

We're gonna have a good time

I'm glad it's your birthday

Happy birthday to you!

How lucky am I that I get to share my birthday

 with someone as awesome as my sister?

Hopefully we will have many, many 

more birthdays to celebrate together.


FORTY!!!!(gulp)