Birthday 2014

Finally! I found some time to blog! I'm sorry I have been neglecting my blog! I just can't find time to write in this thing! I've finally reached this point in my life where I'm so busy I don't have time to spare for extraneous hobbies. I have to make hobby choices. Haha.

So I'm sure you are wondering how this weekend went. I already went into the weekend very grateful so even if nothing happened, I would have still been very happy.

I went home on Friday and we were suppose to go out to dinner for my birthday but I found that no one was dressed when I got home. Everyone was in their PJ's, so I thought we weren't going out for dinner, but then I found out they were just waiting for my brother to get home. So I was excited that my brother was coming home to celebrate with me. I really thought he had forgotten. I mean, come on, no phone call, no text, no fb message, nothing! So why would I even think my brother remembered? But I was very happy to hear that he is did remember and was coming home. So ending up, he came home really late, and we didn't go eat until 8ish? Or maybe even AFTER that. But he came with some baked goods, which were my birthday gift I guess. He had a few small mousse cakes, which looked really pretty! I didn't get to eat them because we ate dinner, and then when I got home, I passed out because I was so tired. Then the next morning I had to wake up early to get on my plane, so I didn't even get to eat them :(

So my dad carved out this really nice looking fruit bowl. He used a honey dew melon and put grapes, blueberries and strawberries inside. It was really really pretty and really nice, but I only got to eat like a little bit of it, because again, time crunch, didn't have time to enjoy everything. But I was very touched that my parents and brother thought of me and made the effort to make me feel special.

So I think a little of my birthday was overshadowed by how my mom fainted and fell when she was hiking. So largely, most of our conversation was about how my mom should probably go see Urgent Care or Emergency Room so she can make sure she wasn't internally bleeding, especially in her BRAIN! But after talking to her, I ruled out any brain bleeds, so it was ok. But she did have a really bad rib ache, which I was thinking she might have broken a rib...but she refused to go to the ER, what can we do?

So I was shipped off to my BF early Saturday morning. I actually ended up talking to these people on the plane. The first plane stopped at Sacramento, where I talked to this one lady, she's a nurse, from my hometown and she was very nice. Going to visit her daughter who went to UC Davis. The second half of the ride, I talked to this guy that was a hairdresser and he travels for work. He must work for some hot shot people or celebrities, if he gets flown around the world to do hair! Really interesting guy. He wore a hipster hat and had a big tattoo along his leg.

So when I got there on Saturday, I met up with "Aaron" and his fiance. Shoot, I forgot what name I made up for him, but you know who I'm talking about. We had dim sum and it was nice catching up with them. SHE HAS THE BIGGEST ROCK FOR HER ENGAGEMENT RING I HAVE EVER SEEN!!! I don't know if it's her small hand or if it's just REALLY big, but WOW. You can't miss it!

Then we went to the farmer's market, that really big one in the middle of that college. We didn't buy anything but it's always nice to just walk around and try stuff. I don't really remember us doing anything else the rest of the day. I think I tried to learn how to play a song on my BF's guitar...I really suck at it. I can't believe people say playing the guitar is easy. It's SO HARD! So I just learned the first two lines of "Fools Rush In" By Elvis. I'll work on the rest next time I'm up there. LoL. That amazingly took most of the day. We had dinner reservations at this Tapas/Paella place. It was really good!

Sunday...hmmm...I swear we just sat around. LoL. I think I just played the guitar more. Gosh, I really don't remember doing very much. We went to this breakfast place, it was ok. Then we didn't do very much, I think I was playing the guitar again. Maybe read a little bit. Then dinner at this fancy French place, it was really expensive! Then Monday, my BF went to work, I just sat around, didn't do very much, I think I played the guitar again. Then went to lunch at this Yummy Korean place. Then at night we just ordered take out and had some crepes.

We watched The secret life of Walter Mitty somewhere in between all that sitting around. It was really good. We ended up watching it twice because we liked it so much. Oh, and we started to watch Spanglish, somewhere in between all that sitting around too! LoL. But I didn't finish it, it was a LONG movie.

So onto the presents. He got me a bracelet from Nordstrom. It's pretty nice. It's this bangle thing. He baked me a chocolate flourless cake. He cut out a stensil "Happy Birthday Amiee" on it and used powdered sugar to get those letters on the cake. He got these multicolored candles and sung me happy birthday when he took out the cake. That was nice. I think what I liked the most was this card he got me. It had two plump little birds on there, they were facing each other and there was this cupcake in between them. And it said "candlelit dinner" on the front. Inside it said Happy Birthday. What I really liked was his message inside:

"You are the bird with the pearls, I'm the bird with the bowtie. I like this card because I can image us being like that, not birds, but content and growing old together. I can tell the birds really love each other. And we can share a cake just like them!"

I'm probably butcher it, but you get the point. It made me cry. I really cried. It sounds lame, but I think I was just really touched. Either that or my birth control pills with all the hormones were getting to me. LoL.

Ok, I have to get going, but that's basically what happened with my weekend. I hope you had a good weekend!