birthday

Posted: August 25th, 2024 | Tags: Uncategorized | No Comments »

whoa big birthday. kind of cool? kind of dumb? does it matter? the number, that is. the birthday will always be awesome. the highlights:

• i took THREE DAYS off, which was a total luxury, and stayed at a totally luxurious hotel (too luxurious? possibly)
• my cousin making the world’s most delicious pavlova and me basically guarding it with my life
• watched half of my annual-birthday-movie on tuesday night (this year was the conversation) (past years: chungking express, paris, texas, and mad max) and then woke up at 5am on wednesday from birthday anticipation and finished watching the movie, with my two lil dogs at either end of the sofa, then fell asleep and slept till 8:30am. true heaven.
• ross ordering the most beautiful champagne
• all my friends and fam doing cool things
• on wednesday, at the end of our meal, our waitress presented me with this nice card (see above) — think she mistook where i was from with my name? — signed by all of the restaurant staff. 🤣
• took two baths!!!!
• sleepily watched the dark knight rises and dune 2 (but full disclosure, I kind of don’t care about dune!!!! “more dust”)
• got the most delicious room service breakfast ever, coffee and a cappuccino and eggs and these pancakes…we ate every bite. only regret is that i didn’t order the strawberry danish (new late-in-life thing: liking danishes) (i guess we CAN grow as we get older)
• on a whim went to an estate sale in a beautiful home and got a great rug!
• went to multiple thrift stores
• ordered some low-top vans (inspo here)
• chilequiles at the blanco cafe
• ETC

ps. speaking of estate sales, i keep thinking about yvonne’s estate sale and all her beautiful things and that they tore down her house and just how life just keeps going and changing and evolving. we will always look back in amazement, i think? like — there is no change that wouldn’t shock us after we are gone. anyway, i wear her ring every day and i hope she knows that i treasure all of her things and think about her regularly.

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