Soooo it was my birthday last weekend! It was a wonderful three days, packed with fun, friends, family and some needed relaxation. Truly one of my more memorable birthdays.
Friday night our entire P-Styles class (plus others) gathered in my tiny apartment to drink and be merry. At one point there were fifteen people in my 10' X 12' living room. It felt so good to host them, to have lots of noise and laughter in my place where it's usually pretty quiet and sometimes a bit lonely. I drank bounteous amounts, and it felt like I was celebrating my 21st - last year I had a mellow birthday, dinner with Tom, quiet night at home, so it felt like I was having the 21st with friends that I'd missed out on. Katherine and Katie made me a cake and cupcakes! Billie Jean made her famous chocolate balls (many jokes resulted), and Alex gave me the last of his tanqueray, Justin left me a pretty flower, Bess gave me Burt's Bees lip balm (my lips thank you!...well, I guess lips DO usually thank people...) Thank you all, my lovely lovelies, for sharing the night with me. I haven't celebrated my birthday with Lehigh folks before - it was very special.
Saturday I went home to my dad's and his wife and my sister cooked a great meal composed of my favorites: Blackened cajun tilapia, corn casserole, kale with onions and garlic, and a lemon poppyseed cake. My sister got me the book I've been lusting after: Michael Palin's diaries from the Monty Python years. I also got a beautiful scarf and a bottle of wine from the winery my dad and I visited when we were in Italy. Castelli Verrazzano Chianti Classico- and from the year we were there! Very precious.
On Sunday my mom and family came out to my apartment to shower me with gifts - money already deposited in my account for the purchase of an iPod! We went right over to the Apple Store and returned home with my very own iPod Classic. I'm finally in touch with the times. Then we went to Melt where they spent way too much money on my meal but we had a fantastic time. I finally got to sit in front of the fireplace - I've been eying up those tables since it opened - and had a delicious dinner of seafood spiedini (tuna, chilean sea bass, shrimp and scallops on a grilled cabob) and mascarpone polenta. I salivate at the thought of it.
It was hard to have the weekend end. But there's always spring break to look forward to!
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