Birthday: Tyler

I can't believe all these babies in my life are growing so fast! It almost felt it was just yesterday that i was watching baby tyler as her mama tore into pound after pound of crabs. Speaking of shellfish, i'm currently swollen faced from it. Good thing i'm not vain. I came to work looking like i had been crying for three days straight. In these situations, i don't feel bad for myself. I just laugh at how ridiculous i look. Oy! Baby tyler was such a good girl at her birthday party. She kept getting passed around from one grandparent to another. They had some good food which big poppa and i wasted no time helping ourselves to. Queenie always does a great job hosting and decorating and it's obvious that she puts a great deal of time into everything that she does. She kinda reminds me of myself but she's prolly a little more extreme. When i get a crazy idea going, i spend night and day trying to make it come to fruition. I feel bad when this happens cos big poppa gets dragged into helping. But that's what great bf's are for right?!? We were kinda bad guests at the bday party. During gift opening time, which is my least favorite thing to have to sit through cos it's just so boring, big poppa and i went out to the pool (party was at a neighborhood clubhouse) and pretty much went to sleep on the lounge chairs. By the time we came to, gift time was over and some people had already left. Oops! Haha.

Trippin': Cairns - Cape Tribulation Beach

For lunch, we stopped at cape tribulation beach to eat. Everyone chose either a steak of some sort, the barramundi which is a type of fish, or if you're like me and did not like either choices then you were given a vegetarian item which ended up being a pasta dish. Food was pretty blah. I have to say, i was not impressed at all by anything we ate in australia. Except for this singaporian place that my mom's cousin took us. That was off the hook! It was prolly the only place i ate at where i wished houston had a place like it. I'm gonna guess that it was called temasek but i failed to jot the name down in my delerium of overly flava-flav food. Ugh so freaking GOOD. Best food we had eaten during our entire stay thus far. But this post isn't about temasek, it's about cape beach. Food equals awful. After lunch, we all walked down to the beach. This was the location of captian's cook landing and his discovery of australia. You can see the reefs growing out of the waters and right up onto the beach. It was really pretty. And kinda cold. So swimming was not an option. But even it were, who wants to swim for fifteen minutes and then get dried up and changed. The pitfalls of a tour. It was still nice though cos beaches are some of my favorite landscapes.

Musik Mundi: All Thieves

All Thieves
Album: We Are All Thieves
Song: Turn And Turn Again

I'm texting back and forth with a friend and just made myself laugh out loud. I'm that person who cracks themselves up and i'm okay with that! This song is has really pretty vocals. It's such a dreamy song and even though i've listened to it many times, i can tell you absolutely nothing about the meaning. I can't believe it's already getting so hot. I'm really looking forward to getting my orange glow back. Not! But i really want some color on my doughy body. Slowly getting back into a regimen. Went swimming to see where i'm at. I can do 300 meters but i'm breathing crazily hard when i'm done. This saturday is big poppa's day off so we're planning on going for a long bike ride. Can't wait! Hoping i can get some friends to join. I love long rides. I've already got some people recruited for my summer active group. We've all got weird schedules so i'm not sure how it's gonna work. But food rewards will be what drives me. Haha. Hopefully we can get started in April cos lord knows i need all the time i can get to prepare. Ugh. Still working up the guts to sign up.

*photo courtesy of last.fm.com*

Birthday: Cooper

There's nothing better than a successful birthday. Mini has thrown several surprise bdays in the past but cooper managed to figure it out beforehand. Sometimes it was minutes before the big 'SURPRISE'. But this time it was a success and it was awesome to get his reaction. He kept saying he had no idea. Of course he didn't. Mini threw the party on his real birth date rather than his altered american one. I love their townhouse and always leave wanting to buy one right next door to them and then have cooper decorate it for me. They both have great sophisticated taste. I could learn a lot from them. They are the reason why i will no longer be buying junk souvenirs for people anymore. No more shot glasses. No more magnets. Except for my picture frame magnet of course. Haha. Next trip i will be bringing something i can decorate my future house with.