Birthday: My Big Three-Oh!

This is the e-mail that i sent out to all my peeps who came out to celebrate my bday with me:

Hello! Hello!

Before i disappear into my thirties, i wanted to let you guys know how honored i am to have you guys in my life. As i know that most of you are also getting pretty darn old, i thank you from the bottom of my hung-over heart that you found the energy to come out to help me celebrate my birthday. I hope that everyone was able to enjoy themselves and eat some good food and indulge in some much needed libations. I'm so sad that some of you had to leave so early! If the success of a birthday celebration is measured in terms of the next day's recovery process then i would say i had me a good night. I had two words for myself when i woke up the next morning: TRASHY HO. I knocked out when i got home. No bath. No make-up removal. No BRUSHING TEETH. Eek! My sweet boyfriend managed to help get me out of my party clothes but he must have forgotten to put my pj's on. He forgot right? RIGHT?!? But yeah. I suffered from queasy stomach and super headache for a good part of the day.

I also want to say thanks for all the wonderful cards and gifts. My sister had a great time opening all the presents while the bf and i were sleeping the alcohol off. Of course, i also need to add that no gifts were necessary! All i ever want is to simply spend time with friends! I must admit, my secret plan to have my birthday party next to some of my favorite stores worked as i know some of you got me last minute gifts from there. YES! Haha.

Depending on my level of laziness for the rest of this week/month, I may or may not get out some thank-you cards. Please reply with your snail mail address! It may or may not include pictures of yourself.

I LOVE you guys!


It was just maybe five years ago that i had the biggest falling out with some folks who i thot would always be in my life. It was such sad times. It took me months to get out of the funk i was in knowing that i was walking away from best friends and realizing that my friendship was not good enough. As i neared my thirties, much of me has stayed relatively immature but for the most part, i've developed great confidence and clarity in myself. As well as some extra baggage around the waistline. Haha. I have no doubt that i am a great and supportive friend. Albeit maybe a little unavailable as of late. I really do envy those people who are capable of having ever lasting friendships but i know that i may not have what it takes to be that person and i think i'm okay with that. People will either appreciate you as a friend or they don't. Friendship is supposed to be easy, not forced. I slowly learned that maybe i had outgrown these people and perhaps they felt the same about me. I think the only people i miss and think about is SD and TN. But you know, loyalty goes a long way. No guts no glory. I don't know if everything really happens for a reason, but i KNOW that if i hadn't broken away the way i did, i would never have met the amazing people that i'm friends with today. I love having people who are so positive and supportive and makes me want to be a better person. Why waste time being or saying mean-spirited things. So as i walked to my birthday celebration, i just couldn't help thinking how much things have changed and how different the guest list would have been if things hadn't changed. Things are so much better now. One thing that hasn't changed is my wonderful relationship with big poppa. Only he could calm the whirlwind of chaos that goes through my head. And without him, my birthday wouldn't have been as awesome as it was. Thank you big poppa and and thank you to all my friends who make life pretty darn great! Cheers to being 30!

Musik Mundi: David Guetta feat Sia

David Guetta feat Sia
Album: Nothing But The Beat (2011)
Song: Titanium

This may be an old song to you but it's a new song to me. I guess i hadn't realized this album has like at least half of it's song on the airwaves already. I'm a fan of Sia's so when i recognized her voice and learned it was her singing in this track, it made me like the song even more. And it doesn't hurt that it's a great dance track. Sia's getting mainstream now with her also being on the wild ones track with flo rida. I like watching dj's like david guetta and deadmau5 cos i like how they move to the music/beat. I'm not necessarily big on house though. My line is drawn at dance beats. This weekend has been relatively the same as the past few weekends. It's mostly just me and paul doing on own thing with one friend event thrown in. Saturday night, our twin friends were having a bday thing at red door in midtown. We had never been there before but had heard that it could be hard to get in sometimes. So big poppa and i made sure to look our best so that we wouldn't get rejected with it's a private party, are you on the list bullshizzz. I wore actual heels and not my party flip flops. Of course, i packed my party flip flops in my purse and changed into them after about an hour and a half. It just hurt so bad! That place got packed like impossibly fast! I kept getting bumped into. Reminds me of how the lines are at the train stations in china. CRAZY! I think the great thing was that everyone on the dance floor was DANCING DANCING. So there was a nice wave of bopping across the crowd. There was no booty humping and bboying. Ugh. Can't stand being a victim of accidental grindings and collateral damage of a 'dance off'. I didn't really start to get my dance on until j.lo's dance again song came on. It got me hype! I really like that song. I thought about using it as my musik mundi but since i listen to my own playlist a lot, her voice would prolly drive me bonkers after awhile. The best part of my night was an aquaintance gf of mine who was telling me (and everyone else) that i was her girl crush. What?!? Who me?!? Really?!? But i'm such a hot (doughy) mess! I just answered with 'it's the bun right?' while pointing at my signature hair style. Haha.

*photo courtesy of amazon.com*

Paw Pals: Twins

Mister valentino and misses babee sistar.

Birthday: Laurita

When my big dirty thirty was coming around, all i wanted was to have a really fun and unique way to celebrate this milestone birthday. Alas, i couldn't come up with anything creative and ended up hosting a dinner and some dancing and a lot of drinking celebration. It was super fun cos most of my friends were there and we had much dranky time. But i am very particular about how i want things to be and sometimes i can't even live up to my own expectations. It was a success but you know, i was creatively disappointed with myself. And on top of it, i had a vision. A $200.00 vision that was crushed and desecrated. I don't mean to sound unappreciative cos i'm so grateful for how everything transpired and i really did have a super fun time. Just wish i did something more than dinner and drinking. So when co-worker friend buddy said we'd be taking a SAMBA class for her 30th, i was like MAAAANNN! That sounded so much fun. And DIFFERENT. I strive to be DIFFERENT! And it was so much fun! I worked up a great sweat and my legs were killing me. I could barely walk for two days. I love being able to just shake everything yo mama gave ya. Miss laurita has some of the most fit friends ever. I call them the lululemon bon group. Which stands for brien o'neals cos most of the are a part of the running group there. And some work at lululemon or have been ambassadors for the store. Most of these people are all marathoners and triathletes. Like 50 miles ultra marathoners and iron man triathletes. And then there's me. All pudgy and a wannabe triathlete. I should register as an athena. Not sure if it's related but two days after the samba class, i swam a PR. 1500 meters straight in the pool! Do you know how many laps that is?!? That's freaking 60 laps! And cos i lost count somewhere, i swam a couple extra laps to make sure i really did hit 1500 meters. So proud! Although, i guess i technically cheated since i did flip turns and kicked off the wall. But who cares. I went from only doing 200 meters at a time to a full 1500 meters. My fingers were getting pruny and my goggles were starting cut off circulation to my eye balls. My flip turns usually give me a lot of trouble cos my form isn't so great and it messes up my breathing. But for some reason, everything was swimmingly perfect. I had great flip turn technique and great timing. I used to be afraid of flipping too close to the wall but i managed to get within inches and not freak out. I was swimming really really really slow though. And barely kicking cos my legs were still sore. Maybe that's the key! Less kicking. To end this post on an even better note, i managed to reformat my own laptop by myself. It might seem like nothing but for those who know me, technology stuff is not my forte. I installed so much anti-virus stuff and id protection software that i can't press the shift button without a prompter asking me if i'm sure i want to continue. Haha. But oh wells. Better safe than sorry.