Happy Birthday to ME!

WARNING: WORDS!!! Sorry, but my birthday is kind of a big deal :)


Last year I took an entire week off from work for my birthday.  I decided that I should make this a tradition and do it again this year. The only problem is that last year I had only taken one day of vacation before my ‘birthday week’ and this year I have been playing with friends too much 1 day in Columbia for St. Patrick’s day, 3 days at the beach, 2 days in Miami…..and now I have 3 days of vacation left for the rest of the year.  3 days for FIVE months.  Oh brother…what have I done to myself!

Anyways, I’m going to say at this point in time it was definitely worth it; when I am in a super slump at work and have no vacation days in October I might be mad at myself. 

I had SUCH a great time hanging out with my friends and family.  My birthday was on Monday and my sweet mom took off work to hang out with me.  She made me chocolate chip waffles with homemade strawberry jam – delicious! 

That night a few of my friends and I went to Sky High  in Pineville, NC.  We had a BLAST! I was EXHAUSTED after approximately 3 minutes….originally I wanted to jump for 2 hours, I’m glad Marisa talked me out of that.   We decided that it would be a better idea to eat supper AFTER we bounced rather than before so we went to my house and a few more friends joined me for spaghetti that Mommy made. She makes the BEST food.  After dinner I opened presents and ate birthday cake.  Yes, I had a LEGIT birthday party. (yes I’m aware I’m spoiled loved) 

I did lots of fun things during my birthday week—ate…a LOT…, sewed things, went to see Kaskade, hit the movies, and out with my friends.

Eating:

I’m almost positive that I consumed about a year’s worth of calories during my ‘birthday week’, I’m pretty sure I will not fit into the jeans I worked so hard to fit back into for the past 6 months but as I think about all the wonderful food I ate, I’m somehow okay with this.

Toast at Dilworth – Marisa and I shared an Avacado Omelet and Stuffed French Toast with Cream Cheese and Strawberries…I may or may not have been back later in the week with Casey to get the French Toast again.  It is AMAZING people, AMAZING.  They also have the French Toast with cream cheese, strawberries, and Nutella – how does that sound?  

American Roadside- A new burger place near Piedmont Row/SouthPark.  It was nothing special; I probably wouldn’t go there again. Oh, and they don’t serve liquor – make that definitely not going there again.

RuSans- Not even a question that I would be going to this place.  I gorged myself on sushi with Marisa and Bella. I do have to say I was HIGHLY disappointed because there were NO cream puffs.  Everyone knows that I eat until I can’t breathe  save room for cream puffs.  At least they had their amazing chocolate cake. 

Outback Steakhouse- Marisa and I have a tradition of going to get seared Ahi Tuna (OMG!) and strawberry sangria.  We switched it up a bit with margarita flights and we also got a crab appetizer – it didn’t hold a candle to the tuna! (Anyone seeing a theme – Marisa and I like to go out to eat J )


Playing:
Jump Sky High: I mentioned this earlier but I just wanted to throw out that you can burn 1,000 calories in an hour....yes, 1,000 calories in an hour!!!

Sewing: I came across refashionista.net and decided to do a little revamping of thrift store clothes on my own.  Marisa and I cruised down to Goodwill to find some treasure.  We found 2 skirts we thought would be perfect.

Elastic Waistband Skirt turned Belted Tube Dress.  This one didn’t even require any sewing, just pulled it up and threw a belt on it. TaDa. PS- I'm aware I look homeless. I'm not.

^^ Why in the world does my font have a white background?? How do I fix this?

This one took a little more work – more than I would care to talk about because Marisa and my sewing skills were a bit rusty.  We rekindled a friendship with our ol’ pal the seam ripper.  We sewed the pocket together and made a mess of the outside of the skirt with thread….allegedly.

 

Still looking homeless...and I can't find an after pic! Will have to update later!

I have been collecting fabrics for a while now and finally came up with enough to sew a quilt.  I’m making another zigzag (chevron) quilt and a swastika windmill quilt.  My little brother asked me why I had sewn a swastika quilt...crazy kid. I will write about these later because there are far too many words on this post!  But here is a sneak peak at the fabric strips!

Kaskade: On Wednesday I went to Kaskade with my old roommate Rebekah.  We danced around and acted wild.  It was SO much fun.  It was also SO hot and we were pouring sweat.  Check us out!

Savages: I adore Blake Lively. However, this movie was not my favorite.  I do NOT do blood and nasty stuff like that –this movie was FILLED with it.  I should have gone to see Channing….oh well, next time.

Well, that was a brief recap of my birthday! I'm thinking 24 is going to be a great year!

One last picture with our new friends we met at the show!