OK. So I’m not doing so hot with blogging. Which is a shame because so much recordable/awesome stuff has been occurring throughout this summer. Side note – 3 months from today I’ll be walking down the aisle–CRAZY. Anyways. Last weekend was my 24th birthday, and it was an amazing, fun-filled weekend. One of the best birthdays I could have asked for.
As a bit of background, 24 has been an oddly big deal for me. Somewhere around age 9 I decided that 24 was my favorite number. Yes, it is the day I was born which makes it an obvious choice. But secondly, it is just a nice even, divisible by a lot of numbers, number–1,2,3,4,6,8,12,24 so many!! Yes, this is how I thought at age 9. You will totally understand this considering this is the cake my parents made me last year for my 23rd birthday–
Super Prime
…and for my 21st I got the Fibonacci series on my birthday cake (yeah, that was sort of stolen from the movie 21, but the parentals still made a good effort).
Anyways, I had a great day at work then when I got back to the apartment, Keith had a ton of very nicely wrapped boxes which included the golf gear I’ve always wanted – polo shirt, pink ribbon golf balls, and SHOES. I then continued to change into my favorite sparkly top and headed out on the metro to a swanky Pennsylvania Ave restaurant Keith picked out. We walked inside to find several friends sitting at the bar and a reservation for 10! I was THRILLED. If you know me you know I’m slightly obsessed with surprises, so this was fabulous. I cannot tell you how excited I am for my upcoming bridal shower, I am PUMPED to see what all my best friends put together because it is bound to be amazing no matter what.
the dinner party
Afterwards we checked out a fun bar I have never been to; although frankly, my bar hopping in DC has been extremely limited – the resultant of becoming a “mid-20s adult” perhaps? 
Saturday I managed to somehow be up for 9am and drive with Keith to a “first time homebuyers” class. This proved to me that I had no idea how difficult and intense buying a house can be. It got a bit boring, so we left after and hour with our PowerPoint/glossary packet to go to Barnes and Noble and just buy a good looking book on it instead. This day ended with us concluding we’ll definitely be waiting at least another year to figure this whole process out (despite how much I cringe every first of the month realizing that I’m throwing away my money to pay my landlord’s mortgage).
OK, get ready for it…remember THIS post?! The best part of Saturday was trying on these at the Tysons Corner Nordstroms (amazing, btw)–
Jimmys (the store had the wrong color)
And receiving this at my doorstep yesterday–
birthday gift to myself
This was seriously a tough decision, but thanks to my Chase Visa points, some birthday checks, and somehow being under budget on our wedding attire budget this seemed somewhat justified. Yes, still a bit excessive for me, but I consider it worth it. Plus the fact that I get to wear these babies at every fancy event in my life ever again felt pretty good.
Sunday was spent golfing in my new snazzy attire. Monday I woke with an awesome flu-like cold probably from having way too much fun all weekend. But at least it held off until Monday am I right?
3 months to go. My next post will probably consist of me cursing myself for not buying invitations and instead trying to do them myself b/c I somehow think I can do it better.
to be continued…
himma2
