Long Overdue

This has been long overdue.

But, as I recently told a friend, I have been either too full of words, too full of emotions, or too low on time to really do justice to all that’s going on. Life is about change; Living is about adjusting to change.

Births, birthdays, epiphanies, breakthroughs in relationships, and some relationships that are more broken… it’s been a very full couple of months. In fact, it looks like I’ve ripped this off from the Soap Opera Digest or something.

But, no. This is actually my life.

*sigh*

So to try and retrace some of the things that have been going on, and that I am willing to commit to “paper” –

The most obvious place to start is my birthday bonanza lovingly planned and executed by my very own Chewbacca.

July 31st – my 32nd Birthday.

For a while in advance of my birthday (at least a month I think), Chewy was planning a surprise party for me, and invited all kinds of friends of mine who I do not see often. Mom was a co-conspirator, and together they made the NICEST and most WONDERFUL party a person has ever had! I knew I was having a party, but the rest was a TOTAL surprise! It was the most interesting collection of people from all different parts of my life cycle. I loved it.

My Chewy was the chef, and barbequed a stack of hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken wings, chicken legs… it was tremendous. Mom made salads, and my mother in law made a HUGE strawberry shortcake cake.

I have never had such a nice time. I was able to (finally) relax and just enjoy myself. Though I almost wrecked the whole thing when I started meddling, Chewy was really terrific about it and I backed off before I really destroyed everything.

BUT….

That’s not all, folks!

Because the next day, we both took off from work and had a whole day of activities planned in the Big City.

Chewy took me to a paint your own pottery place – which I love to do – we did it last year on my birthday too J . Then we went to a HUGE indoor arcade for adults, called Dave and Barry’s. It is chock full of all kinds of games, and gambling a little I think too, and it was so cool. We had a bunch of points to spend so we competed against each other on motorcycle racing (I won) and basketball shooting (He won) and air hockey (He won, but I got in some good shots!)

But wait – there’s more!

We went out to a VERY fancy restaurant for dinner, it was lovely. And it was so great to just have a nice quiet night out, relaxed, we weren’t in a rush to get anywhere. After dinner, we walked uptown and went to see Chris Cornell in concert (He was the front man of Audioslave and Soundgarten) and he is Chewy’s FAVE singer… and that wrapped up the dayJ I can get used to 2 days of celebrations for my birthday…

Stay tuned, Chewy’s birthday is on September 4th and I have a few things up my sleeve, too….