Birthday [Week] Recap
It's been a very busy few days so I don't know that I can get through all of it in great detail but let me try to skim through the basics at least! 
Four Birthday Meals
- Last Saturday: Walt Disney World surprise lunch
- Birthday day lunch
- Birthday day dinner
- Day after my birthday Birthday lunch with family
(I can't even tell you how full I was by the time I got to lunch the next day with my family. The fridge was - and still is - packed COMPLETELY full with leftovers and cake! I'm lucky to eat what qualifies as ONE meal a day and not because I starve myself or anything, but because the way my stomach works, I have to graze on tiny nibbles throughout the day.)
Three (and a half) Birthday Cakes
- Surprise cake at WDW lunch
- Surprise ice cream cake (with number candles for "29") from Love on birthday
- Birthday-decorated cheesecake after birthday day dinner (complete with wait-staff singing)
- Full-on birthday cake from mom served during day-after birthday Birthday lunch
(WDW was a yellow cake with chocolate fudge icing and chocolate moose inbetween the layers; ice cream cake was a "bar" style cake with multiple flavors of ice cream and topped with chocolate; cheesecake was Cheesecake Factory Lemon and Raspberry and damn was it good; and mom's cake came from Publix who makes the best cakes, was a marble with whipped cream and filled with cherries.)
(Love was cute and got me candles that said "29" instead.)
(Cake from my mom)Two WatchesNow this is a hysterical story. I had put
this watch on my
amazon wishlist just for the hell of it. In fact, the description said,
"It IS called a wishlist afterall. I can dream" because I put it on there more like, "oh pretty" not like "I wonder who'll buy it for me." You know,
wishlist. So turns out that my friend Rand got it for me. And it was very, very lovely. Much prettier than in person.
Here's where the
but.... comes into play. The watch was GINORMOUS. The face is literally the same size as Love's Fossil watch. It's 1.5" in height/width. So large that it dwarfed my very small wrists. Rand even said before I got my gifts that there was something he knew I was going to exchange because he was sure I didn't realize what it was. And he was right. I would totally have kept it but I think even Flava Flave would think it was a bit on the large size.
So off we went to the Fossil store to exchange it for something else. But we get there and I give them the packing slip thingy that was the only paperwork in the box and they tell me that the watch's value is only $39. It's $95 on amazon.com AND fossil.com. Less than $40 isn't acceptable. I try on a few, find the one I want and plan to come back with the email invoice that he received to show the price paid later.
Meanwhile, the next day (Thursday the 17th) I have lunch plans with my family. My mom, nanny (grandmother) and sister are meeting me for my official family birthday meal. I tell them about the watch situation and showed them how huge it was. We order, eat, and then get to the presents part. At which point I open the gift from my sister. I open the box and see...a Fossil tin. Inside is
this watch.
This was the EXACT watch I was going to exchange Rand's for later that afternoon.
I didn't tell anyone I wanted a watch. (Heck,
I didn't know I wanted one even!) I didn't discuss the watch situation with my family until I was
at lunch with them - long after my sister bought this one for me. This was just a total freak fluke event where things converged to give me a watch no matter what apparently!
It just made me absolutely laugh.
Bear in mind too, my sister and I don't normally give each other gifts anywhere near this expensive. It's normally more in the $25 range. And that's perfectly ok. But she said she wanted to give me something special since it was a special birthday.
After lunch, we ran over to Macy's, took two links out so it fit and I went over to Rand's to tell him the comedy of errors. We returned the now extra watch (because it made more sense to return that one fully for refund rather than make two exchanges, one to return my sister's and then one to exchange his for the one she got me, you know?) I decided to splurge with the cash from the watch (because now it was up to me to spend it as I wanted since I returned the oversized watch) and hit the Sephora store in the same mall and made my first purchase there. The Bare Minerals starter kit. I've been interested in it for years but could never EVER bring myself to spend $60 on it. It still leaves me with $40 left over to spend as well. Jeez! Craziness.
Other GiftageLove gave me a bike bell. But the best part is that it goes with a soon-to-be-selected bike for me. I've been wanting one for a long time now and he wanted me to pick it out since it's such a custom thing. I'm so excited and want to shop around tomorrow for it! Love also got me two dozen gorgeous red roses. They're so beautiful.
Mom gave me some white gold hoop earrings and three shirts. Two came from
The Animal Rescue Site which is always nice since the money helps a good cause.
Rand also gave me some
Pearl Ex which I've wanted to try in clay for a long time now. Yeah craftiness!
Nanny gave me a card and $20 (whoo hoo! More money!) and some flowers. Very sweet of her. (She is, in case you don't know going to be 91 in August!)
Love's Parents gave me a $25 gift card to Barnes & Noble so I bought a couple books. (Wee books!)
In addition, I had a host of both virtual and non-virtual wishes from
all my friends. Everything from my very first
virtual Livejournal gift (thanks Dawna!), to Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead on dvd from
Lorena to a gift certificate for tea from
felinevamp plus a TON of journal wishes, comments, and even a few cards and emails. I totally feel like I'm missing something but I'm brain-fried right now and if I forgot to mention it right now I'm so sorry. Let me just say: THANK YOU EVERYONE for the cheer. I can't tell you how nice it was to see and how much it made me smile.
Well. So much for brief! And to think, I didn't even go into ALL the details of the last few days. Craziness! But it's been... I don't know. Nuts. But fun. In a good way. All-in-all I had a very nice birthday and really felt special from all my friends and family.
And now that I've been writing this for...checks..damn, an HOUR, I guess I better wrap up. Thanks for reading along and thanks to everyone for making it such a wonderful birthday for me.
~ flowers bloom for
:: miss m ::
at 5/18/2007 11:43:00 PM ~
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