…unfortunately it’s not for me….yet. But it is for Heather and Barney! Simeon and I are heading to Bellingham in a few minutes and we are going to be there to welcome the latest Boisvert to the world. I am so excited for Heather and Barney, not only do they already have an adorable little princess in Miss Lindsay, but they are about to have their second child.

Heather being one of my oldest friends, I have been lucky enough to watch her change and grow over the years and she has becoming the most loving mother and supportive wife. Had you known her ten (hell, even five!!) years ago, you would never have believed she would become a wife, let alone a mother. But now that she has, I couldn’t be more proud of her and the woman she has become. I love her more than anything, and while I will hold it against her forever that she moved so far away from me, the fact that she personally asked me to be in the waiting room when she had her baby, I think I may start to forgive her.

So Sim and I are taking off for the weekend. But we made sure the hotel we are staying at has Wi-Fi so we can upload the pictures and share their little one with the world. I love you, Heather. We are on our way!

…work potlucks ROCK. I am sitting at my desk eating a Fudgesicle. MMMMmmmmmmm!

…this Fudgesicle also happens to be sugar-free which, to me, translates to guilt-free!

…typing with one hand really slows me down. But its really hard to hold the Fudgesicle with no hands and not drip it all over the place.

Simeon lets me sort my Sour Patch Kids by color. He even helped! Without teasing me. God, I love this man.

(Oh and this photo was taken while we were seeing Dukes of Hazzard over the weekend with my new camera phone. Yeah, that my husband got for me ’cause he didn’t want me to ever be without a camera. And that’s reason 865, baby!)

On one of my many trips to the bathroom, I realized I needed to, um, take care of somethings while I was in there (if you catch my drift) so I grabbed my purse and fished out a tampon. Then I realized my fancy-work-pants do not have pockets, which presents me with the problem of walking through the lobby of my office (complete with co-workers and clients) to get to the restroom out in the hall with a tampon in my hand. So what do I do? What else?! I toss the tampon down my shirt and it settles nicely between the girls. And you know what, it didn’t occur to me that it was at all silly until I actually got into the restroom. Then I rolled my eyes at myself and thought, “Ohmigod. What did I just do? I totally feel like I am in high school again!”

Sorry that the pictures aren’t up yet (I don’t even know if there are any good ones, since I didn’t take ’em) but I was home sick yesterday with a migraine. Urgh. No fun at all. I was stuck in bed all day holding onto my head, praying for it to stop. I think its a result of going off the BCPs and now my hormones are all a mess. What fun times I have ahead! Yippee! So after getting caught up here at work, I am now leaving the office for the rest of the day to attend a seminar/conference thingy. Yeah, it’s that technical. So the pictures will have to wait another day since tonight is my weekly Wednesday night dinner. Oh and there may be more pictures added to them, since we are kinda celebrating tonight too. Mostly because I have an ENTIRE cake left, but also to share my birthday love with those who missed the party on Sunday. Ok, gotta run now. Adios amigos!

I was just checking my Yahoo! email and a survey popped up asking for my opinion. I am all about giving my opinion (that and I was bored) so I clicked ok. It said it should take about 10 minutes (which I totally had) and wanted to know my thoughts on their services and products. The first question was my age bracket. Instinctually, I went for the “18-24” option but then I stopped. I was no longer in that age bracket! I was up a bracket!! So I, sadly, clicked the “25-34” option. Then to my dismay, it said “Thank you. We already have enough information from this sector.”

Damn 25. What a let down!

Wow! All I can say is I was actually surprised. For those of you who don’t know, my lovely husband threw me a surprise party for my birthday. Well, to be totally honest, he had to, since it is a standing tradition in my family that for your 25th birthday, you get a surprise party. Which makes it harder and harder to actually surprise the person. But my honey sure did surprise me.

My weekend was following the itinerary to a tee up to the point where we came home from lunch with my boss. We pulled into the garage of my (seemingly) quiet house and I grabbed the leftover cake from lunch and headed inside…to find about twenty people in my family room! I just about threw the cake in the air because I thought I was being robbed. Then once they all shouted “SURPRISE!!” I realized it was just my family and friends breaking into my house, bringing food and gifts to celebrate ME! So I guess you could say we stuck right to the plan of making the day ALL ABOUT ME!!

Well, to be totally honest, I must admit that I kinda had my suspicions about the party. All the phone calls in which Simeon would wander out of the room, the fact that practically no one called me to wish me a happy birthday, how Simeon took a lot longer time getting home on Friday after work, etc. all kinda tipped me off. But then I started thinking that maybe I was just wanting him to throw me a party so much that I was imagining it all. And not wanting to be disappointed if he didn’t plan anything, I quickly dismissed it. However I was totally shocked to have all those people at my house when I returned. If anything, I figured he would have had them all meet us at a restaurant that evening when he was going to take me out to dinner. So it was a very good thing that I was dressed in a cute outfit and actually wearing make-up when he decided to have the party (unlike when we returned from breakfast that morning!).

All in all it was a great party. There was tons of food and most of my family (we all missed you, Darcie!) was there, including a couple of my friends. I know that due to circumstances beyond their control, my other friends would have been there too. But you guys all filled my inbox with e-cards and birthday wishes that totally made up for the fact that you couldn’t make it. Don’t worry, I forgive you all!

There aren’t too many pictures, you know, since I was kinda being the center of attention and trying to get my shit together after the big surprise thing. But what I did manage to remind Simeon to take, I will upload tonight and get those on here tomorrow. But I wanted to thank each and every one of you for being in my life. You all make it fabulous and I can’t imagine it without ya. To another year, baby! I love you guys!