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TWENTY THREE

Today commemorates 23 years of my humanity. In my opinion, 23 is a pretty anti-climatic year. Although Google must think otherwise because they changed their search engine image just for me.

Jokes. Except I really thought they did.

To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of my birthday. Believe it or not, despite my shameless plugs and self-promoting blog posts, I don’t really favor attention. I do, however, like Birthday ~~gifts~~ shopping (and commas, apparently).

I really didn’t need anything for my birthday this year, so rather than have my mom waste her time buying a bunch of sweaters that end up collecting dirt in my closet because I secretly hate them but don’t have the heart to tell her, I decided that the best birthday gift would be to spend the day with her (and if we just so happened to find ourselves wandering in to the mall, well, then, a few swipes from Mr. Visa would be much appreciated too). I did a bit of pre-shop scouting this afternoon and am dying over F21′s pastel line.

Not that I dig pastels or anything…

As for the rest of my birthday? It’s been blissfully boring. We had early dismissal from work today so I came home around 12:00, slipped in to my PJs, watched some mature x-rated television (I am 23 now, after all), and snacked.

Today was happy, indeed.

Now I’m looking forward to relaxing and enjoying a nice huge slice of [beef] cake for dessert.

With frosting. Rawr.

p.s. if you’re still trying to think of last minute birthday gifts that you can get me ( ) you can just do me a favor and head on over here to enter my giveaway. Or you can get me this Marc Jacob’s watch. I’ll gladly accept either one.

FLORIDA RECAP: DAY 1 [ + MY FIRST WIAW! ]

December 27, 2012 by Jenny · 7 Comments

Merry Belated Christmas, my friends! I hope you had a fabulous holiday! Christmas at the PBJ house was pretty low-key.

We opened presents, stayed in our PJs, and vegged out on frozen appetizers all day. Fortunately, our post-holiday plans have proven to be much more exciting.

While the thought of sticking around New England for a nor’easter was almost as tempting as getting a root canal, the family and I opted to head south for a little Florida sunshine. We were able to snag an earlier flight at the expense of having seats in the last row, which actually turned out to be awesome. Dan (my brother) and I had the entire row to ourselves.

Ample leg room was totally worth being seated 2 feet away from the bathroom on a flight where, apparently, everyone decided to stock up on beans for breakfast.

my sentiments exactly

I used the trip to catch up on some snacking and design work.

Obligatory cloud picture. Those are some fine cumulus-nimbus (that’s the only cloud formation I remember from Earth Science).

2.5 hours and a rough landing later (I swear our pilot was swigging vodka and coke the entire trip), we grabbed our bags and headed for my sister’s house to partake in Christmas, part deux.

Dinner started off with salad, but I decided to forego a photo because, well, it was salad. I’ll leave those pictures to the real HLBs. The showstopper of the meal was the main course: prime rib and baked mac and cheese soufflé.

I always claim I don’t like red meat. I lie. This was incredible.

Oh, and just a little Dom Pérignon. ( <- yup, definitely had to look up the spelling on that one).

I also polished off a peanut butter blossom cookie for dessert, which is barely worth mentioning after such a ridiculously extravagant meal.

Now I’m in bed feeling pleasantly satisfied and so excited to see what tomorrow holds.

I’ve been in such a depressive funk lately and this vacation is really reviving my spirit. It feels so nice to actually have something to blog about. I wish I had a life more often.

p.s. I just realized that this recap kinda sorta qualifies as a WIAW post. My first ever! (and probably only)

Does this make me an official real blogger?

TWENTY THREE

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