It is all about the pre-party!

I don't know if everyone knows this but my birthday is on the 6th (Monday). I think surviving one more year deserves as much celebration as I can fit into one month... yes I said month lol.

This year my celebration started in July when my parents surprised me with furniture for my deck, a table and chairs. They are what I would have picked out for myself, black iron with a glass top table. I went out right away and bought some plants so there is a planter with two beautiful pink begonias and pretty little white flowers (bacopia?) around it. This afternoon I used my new setup for the first time. I sat on the deck, sipped iced coffee (with a little cream) and chatted with Leiha. It is the way to live!

Last night I had my official party. We made two huge containers of spodie. Ours had white nectarines, peaches, plums, watermelon, cantaloupe, and grapes. I had the produce man help me pick out all the fruit so they were at the peak of ripeness. Then we added Absolute, Absolute Mandarin, Absolute lemon flavored, some trippleseck, and two kind of rums. We marinated that with OJ concentrate overnight and then added fruit punch - It was delicious!! Another friend had rescued some mint her neighbor was going to throw out so we also had a pitcher of Mojito's. I say we but mean Nola and I because oddly enough no one else liked the pitcher of Mojito's the two drunk girls made - more for us!

We had a buffet of appetizers for dinner. Tortilla chips, salsa, cream cheese dip, spinach dip with crackers, two kinds of thin crust pizza, ham sandwich roll-ups, spring rolls, french bread, and a few other things I cant remember. We set up tables outside, drank and played dominoes (the mexican train) by torchlight until the wee hours of the night. It was such a treat to spend a wonderfully relaxed time with friends, it had been far to long since we had been together.

I am sorry there are no pictures, but I was to drunk to drive by the time I realized I had left my camera at home and I don't know how to get pictures off my phone.

The post party will proceed next weekend when I head down to Portland for some girl time... Some side notes - I had 2 exciting things happen this weekend. The first one was when I went to a different Subway than normal. The gal asked for ID because my signature is completely scratched off my debit card. She looked at it, looked at me and said "You have lost a lot of weight since that was taken." WHOOO HOOO!!!

Then this afternoon I made one last pass at the Nordstrom's Woman and Children's sale. I was trying on shirts and all the shirts in the Womans section (size 16 up) were all to big!!!! I get tingly just sharing that with you :)

Have a great week everyone- I am going to spend it celebrating!

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About NancyB

I love to eat and sleep. One thing is more fun to blog about than the other. In between eating and sleeping I love to travel, spend time with my family and talk about myself. :)