Birthday Girl 2

And so the Fish Queen turned 22.

It's rather interesting how a person (for argument's sake, let us call her Trishiee) who balks at the idea of being the center of attention, ironically gets two surprise parties, two cakes, and tons of smiling chums.

Behemoth props goes to my hard-headed best budz (Mon & Mad) who knew very well that I didn't want a big bash (take note: this was surprise 1), but yes, for contradiction's sake, I loved it, and was deeply moved by it, that is, after I recovered from the "shock" which approximately took a looong ride home for the full effect of the moment to sink in... After a self- imposed state of "zombie mode" I was jazzed out from my drunken or half-dead stuper by the sight of the grinning faces of the people around me, little did I know, there was a surprise brewing. The details are a little fuzzy, I blame it on the "shock". Anyway, there it was a chocolate cake with 3 lit candles, plus m&m's chocolates patterned after the number 23 - yep, I did a double take on that... me? 23??? A very chagrinned Monny smiled sheepishly, Maddy had a good laugh, just to clear things up folks, I'm 22 - but the cake was soooo awesome. Seriously, I always wanted a cake with m&m's on them - wish granted. I got the cutest presents, a fish & dog shaped cookie from Maddy, a book from my sister & pasta!!!!!!- I got all that all before sunrise people, Thanks for the siomai Rene, and for showing up with Pizza - the sheer awesomeness of it all was overwhelming.
Squish & I had lunch at Bigbys, and he gave my my pressie, a book!!! Yey!

Fast forward to let us say around 5ish pm I was surprised yet again by the swing shift gang of VN with their Flounder bday card and cute green cake - If I could blush scarlett, but my skin color protects me from being overtly embarrassed, still, I would've been red as an apple as they sang and offered me the card & cake. Behemoth props again to the people who mastermined surprise 2 and who enjoyed coloring my Flounder card (love it). If I could get my tear ducts to function properly, I would've cried, but nope, not one drip, but just so you know, I was crying inside? haha. Really guys, what can I say? the "word nerd" is truthfully at a lost for words... Who knew turning 22 would be emm... a rather "ostentatious" slash glorious, and magnificent time / event. As I mentioned in my previous blog entry, I have learned differences between a gift and a present... Presents are objects wraped in colorful papers, or placed in boxes, while gifts... Gifts are intangible, to put it simply, they are priceless. (I'm having an emo moment) but I realized the real "gift" that I received was the presence of all my wonderful friends & loved ones awwwwwww... I couldn't ask for a more meaningful & wonderful moment to turn a year older...

Thank you guys....