So after yesterday's depressing post, I've decided that something more cheerful is in order. YAY FOR HAPPINESS! I will therefore blog about my mostly happy April.
And so we have UPDATES:
I actually hadn't posted for quite awhile because I had been dealing with both being really busy and really sick. Sometimes simultaneously. So here are some things that went down in April.
HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY TO ME!! On the day of my actual bday, my awesome friend Mandy took me out for a day of fun as my present. I also got balloons and a gift card to JAMBA Juice, to which I'm ridiculously addicted! We began the day by going to get amazing pedicures at Queen Nails. We went through the whole treatment, the massages and everything (even the chairs had those mechanical massage ball things in them). And I was so proud of Mandy, she did amazingly well, she didn't even kick the nail technician in the face! Mandy is EXTREMELY ticklish in the general foot area, and the first time that we ever we went to get pedicures it was freakin HILARIOUS. She started laughing hysterically and actually KICKED the poor lady doing her toes. And then it became even worse, if you can imagine, when the lady pulled out her heavy-duty tools for the heels of her feet. I dream about it to this day. I would call it a nightmare, but can you really define something as a "nightmare" if you giggle in your sleep? Hahaha anyhoo, my toes were bright neon pink and Mandy's were neon orange, and we both got adorable leopard print on our big toes. SO CUTE!! I would totally have taken pictures and posted them if I didn't think it was really creepy to take pictures of feet. Ewwww. SO, after our pedicures we HAD to go any get cheap sandals to show them off in. We had not been prepared initially and had worn closed toe shoes! To Payless we went. After a short shopping excursion, we then scooted off to lunch at Olive Garden. It was delicious, as usual. I love their house blush wine there, soooo yummy... Then we traveled to the movies, where we saw Insidious. It was actually pretty good! And scary! I haven't been scared by a movie since The Ring, which almost completely shattered my psyche. I didn't sleep for a while, and I refused to watch the movie again for a looong time. The next time I decided to see it, I brought it to my friend's workplace (a high-end children's clothing store, the least scary place I could think of) and saw it there. And then I wasn't scared anymore. Mostly. Hee. So anyhoo Insidious majorly creeped me out (there's a scene in which the demon-thing is sharpening his metal claw nails on a giant wheel, and that COMPLETELY freaked me out!!) After the movie, we went to get ice cream, and I was very very happy eating my cookie dough. Delicioso. After all that, I met up with my family. My parents had given me moolah toward the ring I wanted to buy for myself, and my little brother David got me an adorable necklace. My sister Julie got me a book that she actually found through noxy's blog, the new Sweet Valley book! And my sister Ali and her boyfriend got me cards (Ivan's card had an iTunes giftcard in it!) and Ali gave me an awesome dinosaur balloon wearing a party hat that I immediately christened Filbert. Here he is:
Also on my birthday, I went to go buy my birthday gift, my ring from Zales!! I FINALLY WON!! It took calling every single day for two weeks (sometimes twice) to get them to finally concede to my price, but I did it! And I'm so happy I did, they had to learn that it doesn't pay to lie and be deceitful with their customers. In the end, the regional manager that I spoke with was extremely nice, and after speaking with evil person after evil deranged person, it was very refreshing to talk to someone who was committed to helping me. Lovely!
My birthday celebrations weren't limited to the actual day of my birthday! My friends and I all went out for a western-themed evening of fun, starting out with dinner at Texas Roadhouse. After a delicious steak dinner, we headed over to Saddle Up, a country-western themed bar. I went very prepared in my cowboy boots! But apparently, the music is country before 10 pm, after that they play regular music, so they were not needed. Sad. =( But I had SOOO much fun out with my friends! A few of us had drinks and took a few shots, and we were happily dancing (well, some of us. Others do NOT enjoy dancing as much as I do!! Even though I probably look like an idiot!) I went to change out of my cowboy boots and into some flats, which turned out to be a very large mistake. Some drunken idiot decided to let their empty glass fly, and it smashed into the ground and freakin cut my foot open! Who hands out glass glasses to drunk ppl anyways?! I was just going to keep dancing and not worry about it until the inside of my shoe felt oddly...wet. I looked down at my foot and discovered that my minor cut was bleeding profusely. I tried to go out to my car to use my emergency first aid kit (yes, I have one. I admit I'm a dork, albeit a very well prepared dork!) but they had a fight going on outside and refused to let people out, and if they went out they would not be let back in anyway. So I went to the bathroom, where the very nice bathroom attendant attended me, giving me paper towels and band aids. And then I went back to party! it was an awesome night all in all, I always have so much fun when I'm dancing! (The shots helped also. I had an extremely yummy one that tasted exactly like apple pie. DELICIOUS!!) I wish I had taken pictures documenting everything, but I am never prepared for taking pics. I forget what with all the fun going on. Luckily, noxy happens to be an excellent picture taker, and so I shall thieve some of the pictures she took to illustrate things that went down!
Also something majorly fun, we went to go see My Chemical Romance (MCR) at the Aragon Theatre! It was me, noxy, Ali, my cousin Andrew and Ali's friend Diana who went. I had actually already seen MCR three times before (once to see them, once when they were opening for another group, and the third time for Ali as a bday present- they're her fave band) but this was nice cause it was Andrew's first concert ever (and MCR is his favorite band also!) and Diana loves them too. It was a lot of fun! The drive there seemed to take ages, and there were scary midget lesbians everywhere, along with a lot of old ppl (which is WEIRD for a rock concert!) but it was sooo much fun! People were more low-key, there was no moshing but lots of jumping, and the air around us was so incredibly hot that I couldn't BREATHE, but it was fun! There were a couple of oddballs and rude ppl, of course. There was weird plaid guy, for example. He just stood there with his overly excited girlfriend and STARED at people. At first, I thought he was staring at my sister cause he thought she was hot. And then when the crowd shifted, he stared at ME for awhile. CREEPY. And then he actually turned around and stared at noxy for awhile too! Meanwhile his girlfriend jumped like a crazy person, and her swinging ponytail repeatedly hit poor Andrew in the face. Heeee. Here's me n noxy, again in a stolen pic:
Also a lot of fun was Easter, which was very low-key this year. We only had our immediate family there, but the Easter egg hunt was fun, as always! We had a respectable amount of eggs for the hunt, somewhere around 35 dozen. Here's a small sample of the eggs while drying after being dyed:
A lot of people don't quite understand the custom we brought over from Texas, which is throughout the year, we collect the shells of eggs we regularly use. We only open a small hole in the tip of the egg, empty and use the egg, and wash the shell. We then store the empty shells the whole year, and right before Easter we dye them, fill them with confetti, cover the holes with tissue paper, and hide them throughout the yard. Traditionally, the older "kids" hide them, so the younger ones search for them during the egg hunt. This year since it was just us, my mom and aunt actually hid them, and the rest of us got to search! So fun. So anyhoo, we collect the eggs and then we SMASH them on each other's heads. Heh heh. It's awesome. In years' past, we've actually experimented with the filling in the eggs, and we've done shaving cream and flour. The time we mixed those together was absolutely disgusting, the two together created a horrific paste. Everyone had to take showers before we could eat the BBQ. But it was AWESOME =) April was a good month. Lots of celebration. That's the way I likes it.
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