Birthday Re-cap

 My 21st birthday was last week (thank you for the wishes I got on twitter, facebook and here, made my day) and it was amazing!

I woke up to Alex sending me a video of a song he wrote for me. I swore I wouldn't show anyone but maybe one day I'll post it.

I ate a double chocolate cupcake for breakfast, hey it's my birthday! And had another one from my friend Wafa. She surprised me with balloons in class.

Karen and I met at lunch for to get out nails done and they match perfectly to the flowers my parents got me.

I had another class and met Alex for dinner at an amazing real Italian place.

He got me a heart shaped necklace which I love so much!  

Forever 21

It is an extra special day today because not only is it the 1st day of Spring but it's my 21st birthday!

*I'll wait until you're done singing Happy Birthday*

Even though my birthday has just begin and the surprises aren't over, I know today is going down in the history book.

I'm getting my nails done with Karen during my 3 hour break and meeting Alex for dinner at a secret place!
I give everyone permission to eat a cupcake for dessert...or breakfast today!

maybe 20 isn't all that bad.

I have no idea why I was dreading turning the big 2-0 yesterday.

Maybe it's because my teenage years are gone. Never will I be a teen, where I've spent the last what? 7 years?

Maybe it is because the jump from 29 to 20 to me is such a big one. Like 49 to 50 was to my mother.

But, I'm ready to be 20. I feel like it's such a grown up age and I'm excited for that. I feel like a lot of people look down on teenagers just because they have an "teen" infront of their name.
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I think that since I was pretty down about this birthday, the BFF made sure I was surprised.

And I was.

I walked into my room from placement and about 60 balloons were in my room.

Karen got off her placement earlier than me and blow up balloons while I was gone. I tell ya, she's a sneaky one!

Wonder what will happen during my 20th year? Wanna take bets?

Beer and friends

Those two things equal perfection.

I spent saturday evening with a good group of high school friends celebrating Nicole's 20th birthday which is on the 29th (leap year baby!)

Side note: I can't believe that we're all turning 20 this year! So olldddd!

Beer turned into wine (classy, what can I say?!) which turned into dinner.

Dinner turned into chocolate brownie ice cream cake for the birthday girl.

And dessert led into more beer which got us talking about our high school.

Trying to explain to the other girls who didn't go to our high school, that it really isn't that ghetto (so what if a kid was shot and passed away one block away?!) was pretty hard.

This got us sharing our favourite teacher's, which ones loved us and which ones were straight up mean.

This turned into Erin telling us how her and another boy used to light matches and throw them out the window in grade 9 english class and when the teacher ask what the burning smell was? Oh miss, it's the sun burning some matches on the roof.


Ian and Nicole getting away with not wearing the uniform and miranda being one of the few black girls in our school.

Best part? Finding out that a certain boy from high school expressed his love to Erin for the 4th time two weeks ago!


It was so nice to sit back and have a drink (none for me, driving home) and catch up, share our hate for our now former high school and love on our favourite teachers.

I didn't get any pictures (does that mean it didn't happen?!) but that's okay, making memories in my head.

Prom 2010: Ian, Andrew, Carly, Miranda, Me, Erin, Nicole and Meghan

And just for the record. This was after prom, my face wasn't that shiny all evening.