Holiday: Easter 2012

I was at hobby lobby one day, i dunno, prolly buying arts and crafts stuff that i didn't need, and i saw these cool large egg nesting eggs. I figured I would buy some for some of the kids for easter. I went home, stuffed them with goodies. Then i decided to paint their names on the eggs in my favorite cool font. Omg. This turned into a a two week project. Everyday after dinner, i would work on painting the names onto these eggs. I used acrylic paint which pretty much did not hold well onto the plastic eggs. I estimate that i spent approximately 45 minutes on each letter. Not name. LETTER. I did all of the names by hand without any tracing. I just simply started painting their names directly onto the egg. And with having to do multiple coats and messing up, forty five minutes had come and gone. I guess i enjoy this type of stuff in some weird way. It helps me to practice being patient and calm. I think Knox was the only one who gave me the reaction i wanted. He's in one of the vidz below and i can still hear his voice say 'ANOTHER EGG!'. These kids really are too cute. I felt bad afterwards and apologized to all the parents for giving their kids candy as well as more toys to clean up. Haha. The vid of my-linh is so funny. I felt so bad for big poppa. Man, i got my three future ringbearers and flower girls right here! Yay!

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.