October 07, 2009

the good life

oh man, you guys. my life is pretty awesome. and my friends? they are extra awesome. case in point:

so every tuesday night, my group of girlfriends has "girls' night." we rotate houses each week, and whoever hosts provides food for everyone, while everyone who attends provides a bottle of wine. this week was no different: my friends laura and cara were hosting, so i tucked a bottle of wine into my purse after work and hopped on the metro.

right as i got off my train, i noticed a text from laura - the lasagna they'd made for dinner was ruined, so she was grabbing take out at the last minute; the other girls were running late, so if i was going to be arriving soon could i just meet her at the restaurant/bar on the corner since there would be no one to let me in? i replied back that sure! i'd see her at the bar in 2 minutes.

laura saw me as i approached the door and came out to give me a quick hug, saying the food was just about ready. "what happened to the lasagna??" i asked her incredulously, as she held the door open for me. "surprise!!" yelled the table next to the door.

what followed must have been a comically hilarious quadruple take from me. i sort of idly turned to see what the yellers were yelling about, and was absolutely dumbfounded to find the table full of all people i KNEW. all my girls were there; their boyfriends were there; even The Boy Who Found The Blog was there. i don't know that i've ever had occasion to use the word "gobsmacked" in context before, but dude: i was completely gobsmacked.

when i finally was able to wrap my head around what was going on, there MAY have been some furtive startled/touched tears. not saying from who. it was just so lovely, you know? i hadn't planned to do anything for my birthday - i mean, going to PRAGUE for my birthday seemed like a pretty good celebration, right? - and it's not like 29 is a particularly exciting year, anyway. but instead my friends came out for me, did shots with me, and had a cookie cake for me.

i am so lucky, and my friends are so awesome. my life is good. :-)

29 comments:

  1. Oh dude, that is AWESOME!

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  2. How sweet! You have some quality friends, there, girl!

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  3. Awww, that's a much better story than stinkbugs.

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  4. It's your birthday? Oh, happy birthday!!!
    And no wonder people like to stay put at 29 -- with a celebration & friends like that, who wouldn't want to stay there forever?

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  5. That's so awesome! Happy birthday!

    Also, I so want to start a girls club like that. I will have to mention it to my friends!

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  6. happy birthday! i haven't heard of a surprise party pulled off that well in a long time.

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  7. That's so great! What awesome friends you have.

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  8. Sounds like a great surprise, Happy Birthday!

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  9. I was just noticing on the FB that your birthday is tomorrow. How freaking fantastic that your friends were way ahead of you with the celebrations. So effin cool!

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  10. Wow, that's like out of a movie or something. You're so lucky to have such great friends! Happy 29!

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  11. You got some great friends, Happy Birthday- every year is a special year!

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  12. How thoughtful! I bet you had a great time :) I would love to have friends surprise me like that.

    Happy early birthday!

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  13. Happy Birthday bebeh!!! I can't wait to see you so I can hug you (and maybe spank you) in person.

    Have fun and see you soon!

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  14. Awww! That is the sweetest! Awesome friends and Boy indeed! Have a great time in Prague and once again Happy Birthday!

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  15. That is very cool!

    Oh, and have your dates always been Euro style?

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  16. Wow-- how sweet! and happy birthday! have an amazing time on your trip!!

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  17. "The Boy Who Found The Blog"??? Man I missed a lot since I stopped visiting your blog.

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  18. HOORAY!

    Happy Birthday sweets!

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  19. That's awesome! Hope you had a great time :-)

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  20. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

    No wait...

    AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

    Okay. NOW I'm good. ;-)

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  21. Best story ever! Happy birthday! :)

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  22. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

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  23. Happy Birthday and damn girl, you have some awesome friends

    Have a fabulous trip

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  24. You have a great group of friends, obviously. Glad you had such a good birthday!

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  25. So I am seriously behind in my blog reading because I have been completely absorbed with reading Sookie Stackhouse books - from cover to cover to cover to cover... but I just had to write that this is awesome. Just goes to show, what goes around comes around :)

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