So my birthday came after
a lot of activity in my home just before. I was ready to just mellow out and
have a proper vacation from all the insanity that is the 4th of July
for my family. I mean, that holiday is as big as thanksgiving for us. Huge
holiday.
Which is the only
disadvantage of my birthday being when it is. It comes right after a big
holiday. Which when I was younger wasn’t a big deal, but now it’s more of a
hassle simply because I need to entertain guests for so long before my birthday
and it wears me out in a big way.
So the Monday before, I
was worn out, but actually worked. My body was still sore from the 4th
of July. But Monday night I spent the evening cleaning up. I just didn’t want a
messy kitchen or messy room or messy living room bugging me on my birthday. I
wanted all house chores settled and taken care of before I celebrated my
birthday. So I stayed up past midnight cleaning and organizing.
On my actual birthday I
took the day off. And I was able to relax by myself at home, which was awesome.
I got pizza from Zorbas (small pesto & pineapple) and got myself a smoothie
from Jamba.
M woke me up early (when
he left for work) and he gave me an IPad for my birthday (he also gave me a
huge chunk of money to help pay for my trip to Colorado. Which was very kind) which
was pretty awesome. I played with it some. Downloaded a bunch of games onto it,
but I also watched “So I married an Axe Murderer” while eating pizza and just relaxing.
Plus I got some Hagen-daas ice cream to enjoy as well (chocolate and peanut
butter thank you very much. SO GOOD!) . I played “Gat outta Hell” on my Xbox
some and had a fire going in the fireplace and well as candles lit in the
house. It was really nice me time.
I also got assorted gift
cards from my brother and his wife and family (along with see’s candy), my aunt
and uncle, and a very long time family friend.
I started Back to the
future. Then M got back from work and we hung out some. Then I started to get
ready to go to dinner with him and the boys. I got dressed up some and we all
went to the Fog City Diner for dinner. M and I took BART to meet them there and
we were running a little behind so we took a rickshaw bike ride from BART to
the restaurant. And we were there with plenty of time. Thanks to M who paid for
it.
The food was quite tasty
and we ended up getting 4 glasses (because they were pretty cool looking. $15
for a pair. No too bad.) And once again, M footed the bill. Which was very
sweet of him. We then went home and I opened the gifts from the boys (a purple Chrome
Xbox 360 controller and some candles that have a ring hidden in them! Super
cool. I loved it!! Along with some purple stoneware little bowls, and a book on
CD.). So sweet of them to gift me.
And then I was super
tuckered out and ready for bed.
Friday (the 10th)
I had a party planned for myself. Pizza and Pajamas themed. I didn’t have a
huge crowd invited, but big enough. (about 12 or so were invited? 10 came.) I
picked up a few prizes for playing Let’s make a deal again (like last year) and
I worked on Dianna trivia (which was no easy feat coming up with 60 multiple
choice questions. Which each included a bonus question. All about me.). I also
pre-ordered a cake for myself from Mazetti’s bakery with purple whipped cream
frosting, chocolate cake (which had chocolate chips in it) and chocolate mousse
insides. I just didn’t want to bake my own cake, and was willing the foot the
bill this time around.
I cleaned up from my
birthday and vacuumed and brought up needed props in preparation for the party.
The first few guests
arrived and we waited for a few more in order to start the first game. The
pizza lady got a little confused about where to deliver the pizza but eventually
figured it out. I then let people Know we could play the game and eat pizza! (I
ordered 4 pizzas. 3 XL’s and 1 large. Pesto & Pineapple (which went over
real well, because hello it’s the best) , Pepperoni, Hawaiian, and Supreme in
Zorba’s version. This was a lot of pizza. And I asked If I could get 3- 2
liters of soda for free with the order. Thankfully they said yes, and then soda
was covered as well!)
The game was Japan World
Cup 3. Which if you don’t know what it is, well, you should watch it on you
tube. It’s bizarre. It’s a bunch of strange horses racing. I had everyone pick
a card and that was what horse they rooted for. Pretty awesome actually. It was
great for those in the group who didn’t want to play lots of games. All they
had to do was watch and cheer. And with each winning horse, we played let’s
make a deal with the winner. Lots of fun. Went over well.
I had fun prizes from - $5 gift certificates to places, Candy from
Trader Joes, to gag gifts from the $1 store like “tea with the queen”( kids tea
set) and “new glasses”(slinky eyeball glasses). I think it went over well.
Then we moved the game to
play Dianna Trivia which we broke into teams. The Bearded Bards, Barrel Horse
(a reference to Japan World Cup 3), And Purple Spackle Bots. I loved the names
they came up with! So fun!
We played that for a while
and then took a break to have cake and open presents. But for the winning team,
they got to play let’s make a deal yet again. One last time.
Then we had cake and did
presents. I actually told people to just bring their lovely selves and not
worry about gifts, but regardless, gifts happened. I got Snake Oil (a pretty
cool card game like apples to apples except you have to sell the product
combination), A nice bottle of Olive oil and a strainer for a frying pan
(because you’ll LOVE it!), a GC for Amazon, Candy in purple mason jars with a
GC to Target. It was pretty awesome.
Some stayed after for a
while. We had a cool group that stayed around pretty late going over the rest
of the trivia cards and hanging out. And then eventually it ended up just A and
I hanging out till 2 am! She spent the night in order to go to bed bath and
beyond in the morning.
All in all I think it was
a great success. I had a good time. A fun group was there and a really fun way
to celebrate my (37th… whoa) birthday. J It was some work to put together, but worth it for
all parties sakes. What a great group I had to Party with.
I’m sharing the candy
& pizza love at work. I did eat a lot of the left over cake though….. soooo
tasty! And I’m fairly pleased with the results of the day and weekend. Sadly
now back to normal un-birthday life….
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