So my birthday itself didn't go as well as I'd hoped. I had a good crit, but the celebration of my birthday later on wasn't at all as I what I expected. - I didn't feel honored by the person I was with for the evening.
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However, my roommate & boyfriend totally came through for me yesterday.
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They'd planned a surprise party for me; which may seem like an uninteresting way to celebrate someone because it's so common. However my birthday's not normally celebrated much throughout my family and amongst my friends so I have NEVER experienced this kind of celebration! They went as far as to plan multiple phases! As if being decieved into coming to a group dinner wasn't enough of a heart attack for me!
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Let me back track and share with a little more detail. I'd asked my roommate if she wanted to go hang out on my birthday and she turned me down. In fact she turned me down and couldn't come up with a good excuse, she said she wanted to stay home and do homework (WHAT?...that's what I thought!). She then said she'd make it up to me by taking me out to dinner on friday...I was like (YES YOU WILL!)...so we hopped onto the CTA!
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We get to Reza's (one of my favorite Persian restaurants) and to my surprise, my other two roommates, nikki, my boyfriend, and my other band mate are all sitting around a table smiling (this is when the panic attack began - ha ha -I laugh about it now!). I must've said, "I'm still having a heart attack" a dozen times throughout dinner. My closest friend from back home came a little after I arrived. Then to my surprise that wasn't the end of the evening...
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We all piled into Amanda's car and when we arrived at "Phase 2" as they called it they had me close my eyes and...more surprises! They'd delivered me unto a laser tag place and when I walked inside, there were even MORE people there (Matt, Bibby, Kari + 1), Kari even wore a tie to honor me (I thought it was cute). When we were done running around like 12 year olds, we all piled into cabs/cars again and entered "PHASE 3"...yeah I didn't have any idea what was going on!
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We arrive at my apartment and AGAIN to my surprise...MORE PEOPLE! I was particularly delighted to see Karina! The plan for "Phase 3" was to watch a RIDICULOUS 80s movie "Breakin" (which I thoroughly enjoyed) and that all fed right into...PHASE 4 (they were crazy).
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"Phase 4" invovled everyone spending the night and when we woke up Mary made waffles for everyone! WHAT A DOLL!!!!!
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I WIN!