Last Friday, September 14th, was my 21st birthday. The whole weekend was phenomenal and definitely gave me insight into how caring my friends and family are.
Friday flew by so fast. I had a morning class, birthday lunch with my mother, and another class. After class ended I whipped up to Calgary to spend the evening with my closest high school buddies. We kept it pretty low key and stayed in which was nice after a very busy and long week. They got me a strange assortment of treasures. I think the highlight is the package of paper clips and each one is shaped like a different style of mustache. They're too funny!
Saturday I spent with the boyfriend. He's house-sitting for a relative out near Cochrane so it was nice to go spend time walking the dogs through the woods and sit out on the porch and enjoy the sunshine without the hustle and bustle of the city. He surprised me with flowers, my favorite cake, and an awesome owl necklace. Considering I told him not to get me anything (repeatedly), he really outdid himself. He even forgave me when I fell asleep watching one of his favorite movies later that night ;)
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Sunday was a lovely BBQ with the family. At my request, we had bbq teryaki chicken, garlic parmesan quinoa, grilled zucchini... yummy. Earlier that day, my pa had stopped by the farmer's market and scooped up an absolutely out of this world carrot cake. It was SO good and it was the only occasion all weekend that I got candles and sung to. Thankfully, it was an absolutely honking enormous cake and there are leftovers in the freezer for whenever I visit next :) The birthday that keeps on giving!
I'm glad I have such happy memories to relive because this week has been piling up on me. I just about dropped out of school today when our group sat down to work on our physiology lab. What we learned several hours later after the 8 of us had given up is that the prof hadn't given us all the data we needed to complete the lab. *Sigh*
I know there is no way I'm stopping now but it does make me entertain the thought of taking a bit of time off before I do a master's degree. This semester is going to burn me right out. Fortunately, I am able to look at it as only 3.5 months. I've lived through many 3.5 month periods of time in my life and I can think of several that were guaranteed worse than this. Hurray for the brightside!
Cheers,
Jacqueline
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