I'm not sure why, but I was going into this birthday with low expectations. Not sure why I had low expectations, but I just did. My friends or family have never given me any reason to expect a mediocre birthday, and yet, I wasn't letting myself think it'd be that great of a day. I mean, it's just a birthday, right? But in this post I'm going to try and explain how overwhelmed I felt on Monday. I felt SO loved and SO appreciated and SO special... and I thank each and every one of you for playing a role in that.
So, I here's an endeavor... an attempt to give you a snapshot of my wonderful birthday.
At 11:45 pm on January 29, 2012 Chrissy and I found ourselves in our dorm lounge doing some homework. I was texting Sierra and it hit me that I only had fifteen minutes left of being a teenager. "You can't spend your last fifteen minutes doing Arabic homework," Chrissy state matter-of-factly. I knew she was right, but I also knew that I had several hours left of homework. However, I conceded to her her urgings and we finally sprinted upstairs (we had 12 minutes left) to quickly build a fort using sheets in our room. The problem? Tyler was asleep, so we tried to control giggles and whispers to the minimum. We didn't do a very good job, I'm assuming since we ended waking Tyler up. Oops.
At midnight, Chrissy gave me a huge hug and mouthed, "Happy birthday!!" I couldn't stop smiling. She's ridiculous. I got online and Lucas was online ready to wish me a happy birthday as well =) After a quick chat with Lucas, I put on two pairs of tights, a pair of long underwear and a pair of sweatpants. Chrissy grabbed food, her ukelele, camera and computer while I grabbed a blanket... and then off we went to the top of the Krannert building. We had fun recording ourselves in different "accents" and writing songs.
Around 2 am we decided we should get some work done and our fingers were freezing, so we headed back to Busey. We grabbed some soup and black tea and went straight to the kitchen where we proceeded to do three hours of homework, finally getting to bed at 5 am. The next morning, 9:30 am came way too soon. I had been determined to think of my night of sleep as a loooong nap, that way it wouldn't sound so dreadful. But it was dreadful. Buuuuut... lovely door decorations awaited me and it definitely brought a smile to my face seeing cute notes all over my door =)
After a quick shower I was back to doing Arabic homework when I got a phone call from the front desk telling me I had to go pick up flowers. I laughed out loud and shook my head. So down I went. As I neared the desk, I saw a vase of beautiful roses and colorful balloons and a wrapped gift (chocolates!) and a teddy bear. The girl at the front desk mumbled, "Uhh... these are all for you." And I smiled and tried to stumble up the stairs with everything in my hands. Oh Lucas, you really can't do anything half-way, can you?
Luckily, I only had one class on Monday, so after Arabic I had lunch with Chrissy and then got to talk on the phone with my brother, Megan and my dad. It was great. By then, however, I was exhausted, so I decided to take a nap. After my nap, I showered again and decided to get ready for dinner with my lovely roommates.
At 6:00 pm, we left for Olive Garden in a borrowed car (thanks, Calen!). Dinner was great... good food and a lot of fun :) When we got back to our room, I walked in and there were streamers and balloons everywhere. A big "Happy Birthday" was spelled out using sticky notes on my wall.
We ended up taking a lot of fun pictures afterwards and below are my favorites :) If you want to see all of them you can click here.
Really, I was SO overwhelmed by all the love I received on my birthday. Thank you so much for all the texts, the calls, the notes, the letters, the emails, the cards, the Facebook wall posts, the little gifts, the hugs, the smiles, the decorations, the fun :)
I am blessed by all the people in my life... so, so, so blessed :) Thanks!!!
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