birthday recap

So my birthday has finally come and gone. I turned 23 on the 23rd. And ever since I realized I would have a day where my age and birth date would be the same, I decided to make that year special. Especially when I compared it to my friends whose age/birth dates had already passed. I figured I'd be old enough to do what I wanted.

My actual birthday wasn't super eventful, but it wasn't a letdown like last year. So that was the first thing I needed to accomplish. I was still in Las Vegas, but I wasn't working all day. Our office was at a lounge and when it turned midnight, all the girls came up from behind singing happy birthday with a little cupcake and candle in hand. I loved it! It was really cute and we took a bunch of pictures. In the morning, I got to finally sleep in after days of sleeping late and waking up early. I slept in so much that I only had time to get ready and get to the airport. My mom wanted to eat lunch, but oops. My flight back home and quick and Kelly picked me up from the airport. I only had a short time before I had to leave again for my birthday dinner at BJ's. Kelly, Cookie, Alberto and Benji came! (George had work, Amanda fell asleep and she was Jun's ride). It was a nice, chill dinner with lots of laughing. I was so tired though.

The next day, I met up with Kelly and Amanda at Tea Station just to hang out. After I texted Rafael, they invited us over to chill and play beer pong. They said they would celebrate my birthday but I was fine with just hanging out and not getting blamed for not drinking during beer pong. But everyone did tell me happy birthday and that made me happy. Me and Kelly stayed until about 4am. Yeah...we weren't going to be at Disneyland very early.

I tried waking up early on Saturday, I really did. But I was just too tired that I kept falling back asleep. I finally forced myself to get up and get ready. Me and George finally got to the Disneyland Hotel around 2pm so it was perfect for check-in time since our room was ready! We met up with everyone for lunch at Tangaroa Terrace. Then we went to DCA and rode Mickey's Fun Wheel! It wasn't as scary as I remembered (probably because we didn't even make a full round), but it was fun screaming with everyone and laughing at Jun's frightened face. It was a really fun day. And I think I looked pretty freaking adorable! hahaha! I had a dinner date with Georgie at the Carthay Circle Restaurant. It was definitely different. Everything on the menu was unique and it was hard to decide what I could eat. Then we danced and partied at Mad T Party until closing.

We were supposed to do Early Entry the next morning but I knew for sure I wouldn't be able to wake up. I wasn't sure about everyone else. I was kind of hoping they wouldn't wake up...haha! And they didn't! Since George slept a lot the previous day, he was able to wake up way before everyone else and he told me everyone was still asleep. I breathed a sigh of relief and went back to sleep for another hour. Then it was breakfast time so of course, I got room service!!! I decided a long time ago I would get the Mickey shaped waffle. It was yummy! We got a late start (not surprising) and barely checked-out in time. We went back to DCA first before going into Disneyland. We actually spent the whole day on the left side of the park, mainly in Critter Country, Frontierland and Adventureland. I don't think we stepped foot past Fantasyland and only went to Tomorrowland for Star Tours and to take the Monorail back at the end of the night.

I was so tired by the end of the night. I was trying not to nod off at the wheel! I got home and simply knocked the eff out. But! It was SUCH a fun birthday weekend. People kept asking me what I wanted to do and I got to call all the shots. It was nice ^__^ The only thing I realized today was that I never got a cake with candles to blow out. Yeah, I got a candle here and there on a dessert, but being surprised, blowing out candles and cutting cake is another one of those things that completes a birthday to me. Georgie said we could get an ice cream cake from Cold Stone.

Okay, that's it for now...bye! ♥

birthday plans

So I got the OK from my boss to come home early from Las Vegas after the MAGIC show!

He doesn't know my real reason (and he won't either, because I have another reason made up) and since he never asked, I'm not going to say anything. I just bought my plane ticket and even though it was a little pricey for what it is, my mom was nice enough to pay for it. SO. I will be home from Vegas and free to do what I want on my birthday! I will have the evening to do whatever I want.

But so far, all I have in mind is dinner somewhere with my friends. =P I want to do something, but I can't think of anything. I have my Disneyland weekend right after, but you know me and my deal with doing things on my actual birthday. So I'm trying to think of something I can do with my friends.

Find a place to "release" my floating lanterns? (and "release" because I thought of a safer way to have fun with them...light fishing line!)
Go dancing somewhere?
Mess around at a park or beach?
Late-night dessert somewhere?

No idea. Hopefully I can decide on something soon! Okay...bye! ♥

summer inspiration

I like looking through the Free People blog sometimes for certain entries under "Saturday DO".

Every Saturday, they post an entry with something you can do. Whether it be big, like taking a road trip with your friends or something small and simple like taking a cold shower after indulging in the summer heat all day. Simple things like that make me really happy and make me want to do everything.

But August is already here and there aren't that many more weeks left in summer (like I've mentioned before, September is officially school-starting month, so I like to do everything in August). So there's that feeling again...that feeling to do every possible summery thing right this instant.

happy summer...bye! ♥

Black Milk Clothing

So I just made my first purchase from Black Milk Clothing and my first birthday gift to myself.

Every purchase I make this month will be justified as a birthday present to ME! And I started with Black Milk Purple Galaxy Leggings. I hope they fit alright. I was in between sizes on a lot of the measurements so I sized up. I've seen a lot of pictures of tiny girls wearing those leggings so hopefully a small fits fine.

Apparently they're going to release some new items next week...I don't know if that's a good thing. I haven't even received what I ordered and I'm already thinking about what I might like from the new stuff. Thing is, it's kind of pricey. With the international shipping plus exchange rate, my purchase came out to about $90+ USD.

But yes, birthday month equals fun stuff. ^________^

That's it...bye! ♥

it's August!!!

Ahhhh!!! It's August already! Where is the time going??? Where is -summer- going???

I guess it's time to list out what activities I have so far in August. But I don't think I have very much going on at the moment.

Oh my gosh, I just looked through my calendar and I don't have much of anything going on! The biggest events so far are going to Las Vegas for the MAGIC Show and my birthday. And those are both around the third week of the month! That's a little depressing. I want stuff to do. I guess I can talk about my birthday a little bit.

Again, MAGIC runs into my birthday. It WOULDN'T have but they decided to extend the show an extra day because apparently they got enough comments/concerns/complaints that three days wasn't enough time to do everything. So now it runs Monday - Thursday and my birthday is on Thursday. I seriously almost started crying when I found out it ended on my birthday. I had one of the worst birthdays last year and I vowed to myself that the next one would be better. I don't care if I have to work in the morning, but I will fly my ass home later in the day and go out on my actual birthday and enjoy it. (Doing something on my -actual- birthday is kind of a big deal to me.) I'm totally okay with a small dinner with some friends, as long as I am out of Vegas and away from work.

Then the fun continues on the weekend! I got a 2-bedroom suite at the Disneyland Hotel so I plan to spend the whole weekend between both parks. AND since we're going to be hotel guests, we can take advantage of early entry and run around one of the parks a whole hour before regular admission people. Carsland anyone?? But yeah, I'm hoping that'll be a lot of fun. I love staying in hotels for special occasions and I absolutely love getting room service. I don't know why. I know it's expensive but I feel like I'm being pampered; having my food brought to me in my room all fancy. I especially like getting breakfast because I'm lazy and by the time I get ready to leave the room, it's no longer breakfast time.

But I feel like I need to fill my month with more activities! August is the last summer month before school starts again and even though I've been going to summer school, I still have that elementary-school-mentality where summer means doing a lot more with your friends and staying out late.

So that's it for now...bye! ♥