24

this is my birthday day week month year AND it was a success. i don't know how a year has already gone by since i turned 23, but apparently it has. i refuse to believe it, even thought i've been saying i'm 24 for like 3 months. that's just what i do. i get sick of being my age and i just decide to move on up. buuuut that was probably the last time i'll do that because 25?! TWENTY FIVE!? no. way.

i also look like i'm 19 20, now. so i've got that going for me.

sooooo. yep. i took my birthday off from work because i have never worked my birthday in my life and i don't plan on starting now. so i did and guess what time i got up? guess. .........SEVEN THIRTY.  happy day. maybe it was because ERIN was all up in my grill at 6:58 "RISE AND SHINE IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY emoji emoji emoji". but i loved it. i loved it a whole lot. (i'm blowing you kisses, erin.)

and we went to breakfast at my favorite little restaurant, that's now a tradition because it was where evan took me when i turned 18 and we were at that awkward stage of, are we dating....are we not? so cute. now we go there every year and it's what i most look forward to.

then evan surprised me and took me to our spot and we took a million pictures and i picked some wild flowers, which is probably illegal, but i don't care, plus it's my birthday so i get a pass on anything illegal. PLUS i'm going to go back and dig up an entire plant because i can.

we had the lowest key of an afternoon, and i mean, low. i napped and laid around and did nothing. and it was great. we got ourselves a bottle of wine and had sushi for dinner and that was even better. sushi is my all time favorite. we haven't had sushi since like.....march. i know, who ARE we?

and we had a magnum sized bottle of wine to ourselves and we may have drank the entire thing and we may have been tipsy. so what, it's my birthday. (that's my new excuse for everything.) we tried a spicy tuna roll (which is not pictured) because i always say, "you should get some crazy roll that we've never had! something real." and evan says, "no." and then we get our usual cooked/veggie rolls. so we went adventurous with the spicy tuna because i've heard good things and i have to say that it was amazing. good and spicy. or that may have been the giant piece of wasabi i accidentally dropped in my soy sauce. whatever, it's my birthday. this restaurant is so cute i can't even stand it. evan sneakily told them it was my birthday so they sang to me and gave me a piece of tempura cheesecake, except they sang "happy birsday" and it's a track they put on and it's the cutest thing ever. except i wish evan had snapped a picture because i was so, so, so embarrassed. i think i gave myself a fever i was so red.

my mom got me some delish cupcakes from my favorite bakery (chocolate because if i don't get chocolate cake on my birthday someone will lose an eye. that's a promise. and strawberry white cake with almond frosting and margarita with a sugar lime. to which my mom says, 'it's your favorite drink!' she knows me so well, except i like real margaritas better, mom. for future ref.)

i've been hoarding that dress for months and months to wear on my birthday. it has pockets (which, basically if a dress doesn't, it's not worth it.) and stripes and it's the best length because i have to belt it (which always makes it like an inch shorter, which is a lot for people who may or may not be gifted in certain areas such as......behinds). why do i belt it? IT'S A FREAKING MUMU WITHOUT THE BELT. and it's gap. gap is pretty fashionable so my question is: WHY DOES GAP HAVE A MUMU DRESS? (and why is this mumu dress more than 10 dolla?) evan calls it my nightgown. but, like, how cute is it?! i know. belts will save the world and probably end world hunger and cure aids. (just kidding. but maybe.)

23 was pretty good to me: one year anniversary and house buying and new friends and 52 dates and denver and ethiopia x3 and future planning. 24 is going to be the best year, i have high hopes for the final year before i'm a quarter century. which will then be the best because how can it not?  i'm not going to make any goals for myself before 25 because a) i will have 1 whole minute of free time when september rolls around and b) i don't do long term specific goals, turns out. i'm basically going to love myself, hit rude people more and send more snail mail letters. also spend as much time with evan as possible. i'm not above kidnapping, so. that's that.