Birthday Diaries
Happy Birthday #Capricorn ♑ Born 1/14=Romantic idealist~Sociable~Self-sufficient~Mystery~Independent~High standards~Affectionate #LoveScopes
Great morning beautiful people! Yes, it is 7 ish in the am...and I am wide open! LOL
I've actually been up for about two hours... kinda like a kid on Christmas. I have this internal alarm clock that goes off...not much I can do after that.
So around 5:45 this morning...I began to pray. (No I'm not of the Islamic faith... ha!). But I find that the wee hours of the morning are the most peaceful and open time to have a lil one on one with the Lord. So I understand why those who are of that faith rise early to pray. It makes sense to me.
Those early morning hours are for my formal prayers. I have an ongoing communication with God throughout many days. So if you ever catch me out and about and you think I'm talking to myself... (lol...jokes jokes...)
Anyway, my phones started buzzing in those early moments with birthday wishes from everyone from classmates to friends to family to Facebook folks and Twitter followers:
Yes, I put folks on blast! :) Kidding. Thanks to all of them.Happy early morning birthday to@CM_Writer aka "Ms Controversy" herself. Enjoy your weekend !
I have brunch later on with some ladies I've met since I moved to the QC and then hanging out with friends later on to eat and play games. I'm a big kid at heart. I tried to think of what everyone would want to do for my birthday (yeah...I know...lol). Then my homeboy said...bump all that...do what you want to do. And for me...I like to play games.
I remember I used to meet my then boyfriend at the arcade to play video games when I was in high school.
Yeah, while other folks were out creeping and getting drunk or preggers...I was playing Mortal Kombat. LMBO
Anyway... I'll keep you up on what I get into today. Thinking I tell y'all too much of my business LOL :)
BRUNCH
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| The Specials menu at Terrace Cafe |
Anywho...I'm so indecisive...I couldn't decide what to get. Initially I wanted s'mores french toast, but I saw that they had fried green tomatoes on the menu. And being the southern gal I am, I wanted friend green tomatoes.
One of my pals suggested I get both since it is my bday after all. So I decided I could nibble from either. THEEEEEENNNNN the waiter told another of the ladies that they have shrimp and grits!
So here I am, changing my mind once again! Now, I want shrimp and grits, with fried green tomatoes on the side. Hahaha! The shrimp and grits were really tasty, and they had something else I love laying on top...fried okra. Now I don't know what fried okra has to do with shrimp and grits, but the two pieces were scrumptious! But sadly, the fried green tomatoes were a tragic disappointment.
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| She's going to kill me for this :) LOL |
Fried green tomatoes are supposed to be coated in buttermilk and well...fried in batter. These were fried in batter, but they missed the southern deliciousness of buttermilk. And basically were very bland. (Please do better...don't promise fried green tomatoes and give me rice cakes....)
Anywho, the ladies and I had a good chat, and actually enjoyed the food overall. I came home to try to take a nap before I meet some more friends for fun and games tonight. But my Heels wereI wanted to wait to cut my birthday cake. But I could not resist!! It was so purty!! And it tastes great too! :)
Let me shout out the cake baker extraordinaire over at Silver's Sweets who did a fantabulous job with my cake. She also baked my niece's birthday cake. Check out her site (www.silverssweets.com).
My mom loved the cake, and she's a cake baker herself. So that means, the cake was beyond fantabulous. Because MY MAMA can put her whole foot up to the knee into a red velvet cake! :)
CLOSING OUT THE NIGHT
So a few of my of my pals and I went to get some grub and play games and Dave and Busters. Anytime you have folks my age gather and chat, relationship topics pop off.
So we hit all types of subjects from believing in divorce to dating younger to women being the breadwinners. My sister from another mister gave me a puppy for my b-day. LOL. I said I wanted a puppy...but I want one I don't have to take care of! hahahaha
His name shall be Brutus!! :) The fellas that came through were dressed rather nicely...though one left his cologne lingering on my clothes LOL. I asked him what it was...he said a secret blend! SMH
I got it in on the air hockey table and went 3-0!! All in all I had a really great birthday...very chill...stress free. Some of the convos I had put a lot into perspective for me. I realized that I can focus solely on me on "my day", instead of trying to make sure everyone else is alright. It sounds selfish, but I have this thing where I do more worrying about whether other folks are enjoying my birthday activities, than I am. Yesterday was different.
No big party...no huge fanfare. Just hanging out. Something I need to do more often...and shall. I was finally able to just let my hair down (Literally!)
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| In the middle of flat ironing my natural hair. |
Oh wait it is not over! LOL. Dinner with the parents after church today. Not to mention calls from my favorite people :)
Now...Noa did not call to wish me happy birthday, he Voxered me to torment me about my team losing...but then he said happy birthday by the way O_D lol. Lil sister, niece and bro-in-law called and the niece chatted my ear off in her one year old way lol. My dad called me and told me I'm getting old and asked why the 'rents weren't included in my bday plans :) LOL.
My bestie called me and she and I reminisced on our younger days. The "lil brother" Skyped from the desert and we had our Capricorn-esque discussions about the usual things we discuss. Big Brother Shel called to say happy b-day Shawty LOL. And my boy Ben jammin called to play me a recording of the last time he sang happy birthday to me...as he currently had a sore throat lol.
