Sherbert Punch wishes and Birthday Cake dreams

Today was my GOLDEN birthday. If you don't know what that means, I turned 27 on the 27th. Yeah, I'd never heard of it either until Kirstin turned 25 on the 25th. Anyway, it was a great day and a great week leading up to it. This past weekend I celebrated my birthday with my family in Z-town. I had a delicious Amaretto Peach cake. Yum yum yum. Went to the mall and shopped for my gifts with my mom and sister and ate food court. Yum yum yum. My sister, Laura, got me the HUGEST cupcake ever!! It was so big, it had regulation size cookies on top of it. Yum yum yum. See for yourself:

Today, I got up and went to the OMV and got my driver's license renewed:

Then, my parents happened to be in town so they picked me up and took me to Caretta's for lunch. YUMMY! We also went to Border's and then hung out at my house.

Later, Kent came home from work. He took me to the mall to exchange a shirt that he got me (which we actually have to pick up at a different mall tomorrow because this one didn't have my size. The other mall may be better anyway because they said they have the "girl" version. Which is good. It's a Serenity t-shirt. If you haven't seen that movie...see it. But first watch the TV series that leads up to it or you may be lost. The series is only one season long (it's called Firefly by the way) so it doesn't require much of a commitment. See it. Anyway, I digress...) and then we ate at PF Changs. While we were there a guy totally almost cracked his skull on our table. :) YUMMY!

Then we came home and my poochie wished me a happy birthday. She's so sweet. All in all, a great day and week. OH! I almost forgot one of the best parts...I WAS OFF OF WORK TODAY!!!

My quarterly sappy post...

I really like the song by Bad Day by Daniel Powter. I hear it every morning on VH1 as I'm getting ready for work. Seriously, the video helps me not quit my job each day. Silly? Maybe.

I drag myself out of bed. Crawl to my car and into my office being fueled only by my desire to keep eating and my fondness for electricity. I greet each customer with a smile and send them on their way with a cheerful wish for a great day. But my day usually stinks. I mindlessly do my work while dreaming of painting birds on walls, swimming at the beach and building all the projects in my head. I block out the endless chatter of certain 8:30 to 5:00 faces and wish that the clock said 4:55 instead of 10:55. Then I head home. I talk to my mom on the phone, take my doggy out and see Kent walking up the driveway and none of my bad day matters anymore...

The next day it starts all over again.

I work at a smile and I go for a ride.

Daniel Powter - Bad Day - Listen to It!

You're Dead To Me!

Something kind of scary has been happening in our house. This week, three flies have gotten in our house. They all came in on separate days. The scary thing is that about an hour after each one came in, I either found them dead or heard them buzzing their last buzzes and dying on their backs! Something is killing them in here and its not a flyswatter. I don't know what in the world is in the air in here, but it makes me just a tad nervous. I could understand it being hard to breathe the week that I ate all the cabbage, but this is just creepy...

Cell Phones are AWESOME!

Dear Cellphone,

After 10 years together, I felt like I needed to write to you and say thank you. I'd like to say thank you for making my life so much easier. I'd like to thank you for taking care of me when I need you...when my car broke down, I turned to you; when I was lost in New Orleans, I turned to you; when I needed to look busy to avoid talking to someone, I turned to you. I'd like to say thank you for all of this...

BUT UNFORTUNATELY I CAN'T!
BECAUSE YOU'RE STUPID!

Instead, I'd like to thank you for allowing me to hear my own voice echoing back to me when I try to call my mom. Thank you for only letting me hear about 1/2 of what anyone is saying when they call me. Thank you for making it IMPOSSIBLE to call anyone during a hurricane evacuation. Thank you for breaking your stupid little ear piece and only allowing me to hear through you on speaker phone. You really made me some close friends with that one. Because of that everyone in Wal-Mart now knows all my business. Thank you, thank you, thank you for suddenly going silent during my phone calls and then coming back on in just enough time for the person I'm talking with to hear, "UGH!!! I HATE YOU STUPID PHONE!!! PIECE OF JUNK!!!" Thank you for sending me voicemails 2 days after the caller left the message. Thank you for not allowing me to order pizza because all the person can hear is, "I li-- t- der- er-ni--za." Thank you for still not working well even after I bang you on the steering wheel a few times. Thank you for tricking me and everyone else into thinking if we talk louder that the person on the other end will hear more clearly. Most of all, I'd like to thank you for dropping my calls, because after a long day at work there's nothing like venting about your co-workers to a dead phone WITH NO ONE ON THE OTHER END!!!

Thank you cell phone. You are awesome and one day I'm going to smash you.

Sincerly,
Jessica

I'm gas powered!

At about 7PM today I realized that all I'd eaten today was the following:

9:30 AM Onion Rings (reheated from Last night - the best onion rings in the city, actually)
9:45 AM Diet Pepsi
9:50 AM Hershey's Smore's Candy Bar
1:00 PM Reese's Pieces
3:00 PM Movie Theater Popcorn
3:00 PM Big 'Ol Coke
5:00 PM Refilled Big 'Ol Coke

I'm thinking of writing a book on healthy living. What do you think?