Birthday Girl Pt. 1

The last 16 hours or so have been MAGNIFICENT. I've been partying like it was 1985!

I had dinner plans last night with my friends Tracy and Erin and we went to a little French resteraunt called Le Petite Maison. And oh my, oh my...the food was incredible! We ordered a mushroom salad for an appetizer...it was the sauteed mushrooms over a bed of lettuce, drizzled with an unfathomably great dressing...it was so good we ordered two, one after our main dishes. The waitress wasn't sure when we asked her..."Can we have another mushroom salad?"

"Um...I'm not sure, let me go ask."

I guess people really don't order appetizers after a huge meal, but alas, I'm the birthday girl, therefore anything is possible!

For my main dish I engaged in a little Bouillebaise Riveria...this fish soup flavored with saffron and other fabulous expensive spices. It came with toasted bread with pate' ...and pardon my french, but holy crap! It was the most intense bread ever!

Tracy had salmon in a champagne sauce that came with cavier on top. I love to try new things so I was all up on her cavier. Except when she offered it to me she asked me if I wanted any CAVALIER. I said, "No thanks, however, I would love to try the cavier."

I don't know if any of you have ever tried cavier but it taste like those minty ice breakers that Jessica Simpson advertises, but instead of the mint goo that squirts out in your mouth it's more of a salt water coming out of an eyeball substance. It's pretty tasty. (no, seriously.)

So after $80 worth of WONDERFUL food and wining and dining with my ladies...(however there was an empty seat that I kept wishing Stephanie was sitting in :( ) We went over to Tracy's where she had dessert for me. ! But when I showed up I saw it was a little more than just dessert....

SHE THREW ME A STAR WARS PARTY!

With Yoda cups and Vader plates and Storm Trooper (<3) wrapping paper OH MY!

It was perfection!

She had a bunch of different Italian pastries and tons(!!!!) of presents for me! God, I love her. She bought me some artwork for my clockroom orange and matching pillows for my Ty Pennington Collection bedspread plus a journal for my trip.

Then we busted out the champagne that me and Tracy finished between the two of us. (Erin couldn't have any because she just found out...there's a cake a-baking in her oven!) It took forever for us to open the champagne because we are weak little girls but when we finally did....it tasted like heaven out of the paper Yoda cups.

So we got a little tipsy and told funny jokes and took TONS of pictures. And it wasn't even my birthday yet! I still had an hour to go!

Just as the party was breaking up, I called Brian since he lived up the road from where I was. I spent the midnight of his birthday with him, so we planned to do the same for me. I told him about my ultimate Space Fights party and that I was gon' have Tracy drive my drunk ass to his house so I can get some more presents!

(I don't know if you can tell by the pictures but Damn! I looked FABULOUS!)

So we hung out until the clock struck 12 and I turned into BIRTHDAY GIRL! 20!!!!!!!!!!!!And he gave me a present (Jon Stewart's America book, awesome.)

We ended up hanging out until 5:30 in the a.m. and he drove me home just as the sky was getting light. We walked outside and it had just got done raining, so it was damp, but still warm. There were little birdies chirping and the sky had a pink tint. I didn't really want to go home. I wish we could've just drove forever like that. There was no other cars on the road and I found myself actually in a moment of contentment.

I crawled into my bed just as the sun came up and fell asleep. I felt like it had already been my birthday and that I was a very lucky girl...