When I started this blog my intent was to post at least once a week but life takes over sometimes and there is no room for the fun stuff like blogging.
Today we're celebrating my birthday early, and then I get to celebrate again on the day of my birthday and then again Friday with friends.
I am not one of those people who need to have a big party for my birthday, I’m just not one of those people in general but this year is a bit different. This year I made it a point that I wanted to be celebrated for my birthday!
Every year my brother, who's birthday is 7 days after my birthday, calls me about 2 weeks prior to remind me that our birthday is coming up and to make sure we cal each other. Now, while I say I have never really celebrated my birthday, I am also not very good at remembering other people's, but I always find it very cute that my brother makes a point of calling me every year to remind me. What I think is ever cuter is that he always calls it "our birthday" not birthdays or yours and my birthday but "our". It was always a big deal when we were little for my parents to celebrate us together so it became this event!
Maybe it's just with me getting older and being more appreciative of my family and the events in my life but this year more then any other year it struck me as very special that my brother makes this point every year. I was sharing this with my mom and she laughed and started to share things about us kids. There is me and then I have my brother who is 2 years older and my sister who is one year older then my brother and then we have an oldest brother who is a couple of years older then my sister. We are all so different, and all have very different food taste, and our lives have always revolved around food, so imagine my mom trying to make a meal that would please all of us, but that can be a different post in itself!
Back to the birthday, my mom did make sure to reiterate that, while we always celebrated "our birthday" we each had our own cake. So I asked her to tell me about those cakes and she said my brother always wanted chocolate and for me, it really didn't matter on the flavor, what was important was the picture on the cake. Now this struck me as very strange because today I absolutely love cake more then anything, but it has to be chocolate.
I love chocolate cake so much that when I asked my team at work to share with me their favorite cake they all replied with different flavors and I told them all that it was great but regardless of what, we were going to be having chocolate cakes on birthdays and none of that marble stuff!
So back to my birthday, this is now passed; as i mentioned before life took over and i started this post a week ago.
My brother and I did connect on my birthday, we played xbox live and killed a lot of people on team deathmatch, which is a long way from the Coleco Vision we used to play as kids.
My birthday was great, I treated myself to a pedicure and manicure, which ended up involving food, well not really food you eat but I went a step up from the regular pedicure and the girl used fresh grapefruit on my legs!! It was very cool, but between having shaved my legs that morning (should have thought that one out me) and the sugar scrub she gave me right before it might not have been the best idea!!
The celebrations ended with a food orgy at the Chinese restaurant on Friday, why is it that we feel that we have to order so much food every time I really don't know! We all want a little bit of something and then end up with way too much.
So now back to our regular programming that is the Winter Olympics! Love that!
I'll be back shortly this time!
