November 26, 2006

Ummm..hi? I haven't written in here in forever..or so it feels. I have a lot of updating to do. Let's see. I'll start with my birthday. I was going into my birthday feeling a little blue. Not b/c of the whole age thing at all, but b/c it sucks being sooo far away from family/friends around important occasions. Seriously sucks. I can't evven describe it..it just sucks. But Dave rocked it. He brought me up some cake at work including candles that wouldn't blow out. Nice. His birthday gift to me was a killer vertical briefcase that is perfect for music, and a palm pilot. We went out for awesome western massages in Bangkok. We actually went to the hotel where everyone stayed at before the wedding. Being there again was fun in itself. We decided we're going to start going there on the weekends to get some pool time! Oh yeah. But the most memorable part of my birthday was our dinner. We went to a great teppanyaki place downtown. We drank lots of sake and I had filet mignon and lobster for dinner. Yeah..hello! So at some point Dave goes to the bathroom and sneaks to tell the waitresses it's my birthday to see if they'll do something. Dessert comes around and sure enough they bring out a mango cheesecake (how did they know that mango and cheescake are my 2 favorite food groups?). There's a little bar of white choclolate that says "happy birthday, Leslie." And of course they start singing the real version of happy birthday. When they get to my name is where this story gets hilarious. Instead of attempting to say my name they sing "happy birthday dear raaa raaa." Oh my gosh! I DIED! It was the funniest thing ever. They were standing right behind me so it was super loud. And while the whole restaurant was clapping I was crying laughing so hard. Oh yeah! It really ranked up there with my Mexico birthday expereience. Gosh, that was a while ago but one of my favorite stories from Mexico. I think this would have been November of 2002. Yeah. So I go out with friends to a karaoke bar and nothing is in english, literally except for Britney Spears "oops, I did it again." Yeah, only my favorite song at the time. haha. So I'm all signed up and am only on tequila number 2 when they call my name. I'm thinking "shoot..I need one mroe tequila and then I'm good to go." But there's no time. So I run up on stage and the room is totally packed, there's even a little stage up front. I start singing and I swear, it was the funniest thing in the world. A swarm of people comes up to the front of the stage and is acting as if I'm in fact, Britney Spears. They were screaming and cheering and blowing kisses. HA! It was soo funny. And then once they found out it was my birthday..the traditional Las Manzanitas comes on and the whole dang bar is singing. Another tradition at a birthday party is to line up to give a hug to the birthday person. And line up they did. The line extended the length of the bar, and they kept cirlcing back to the end of the line, meanwhile my friend is overseeing the hugging and making sure no one gets to comfy. haha...it was sooooo hilare. HILARE!

Enough birthday-stuff. So what else has been going on..we had an amazing thanksgiving at a really excellent brewery. THe sweet potato thing rocked as did the pumpkin bread pudding..hello! So we had a great time and are just in the swing of the semester. I can't think of anything else to write about...it'll come to me soon. See ya.