Happy Birthday to ME! And my Mom.

Today is my birthday. Happy Birthday to me! And its my Mom's. Happy Birthday Mom! I was such a wonderful birthday gift to her.

Last week I bought myself a couple of presents and today I'm going to use some coupons and buy more. I love presents.

Don't worry, I'll make Melissa take pictures of me opening them. She's gonna make me dinner and Key Lime pie so as a reward she gets to watch me open presents I wrapped myself. I'm nice like that.

Last year around this time I was planning a family reunion. Ah.. such stress but now I look back and only remember how awesome it was. How awesome I was.
Last year on this day I was in a cast dreading surgery next week... and apparently texting and driving. (Emily took this the day I went back to work and she went back to Utah.. this was to help Mom feel better about her leaving me alone) (ignore the expression.. its hard work to text)
That Sunday Mitchell Bunn was blessed and I accidentally knocked him on his head with my cast while he was in his mother's arms. Then my Mother came, I had surgery (which I might or might not still have nightmares about) and now I'm basically all better.

I can't believe its been a whole year. One of the worst experiences of my life (I just might be unreasonable afraid of anything doctor related) and now its fading into the past like everything else. I just hope I can remember the love and care that was shown me by my family and friends (thank you!) while the other stuff fades... although it seems to want to be the other way around.

While up in Utah someone asked me how old I was and I said 36. Amy (SIL), who is just a few months older than me, looked at me very strangely. "Wait... aren't we 35?"

Apparently I've been thinking so much about being 35 that this year I decided to skip right over it. I had planned on reaching many of my life goals by this year. But alas, I have no cute black girl dressed in a yellow sun dress and instead of a gardening Emily as a housemate, I have the heat of Vegas.

Mm.. as Dave Ramsey says, the difference between a goal and a wish is a plan. Oh, I'm making plans... I'm always making plans. Planning is easy. Its the follow through that's hard.

All in all though, I'm going to have a wonderful Birthday day/week/month with my friends, family, and crocheting.

I didn't crash when I went biking last week (the day before my accident anniversary) so I've already made progress.

Happy birthday to Mom and ME!

PS. I know most of u who read this aren't in Vegas, but Melissa is putting on a run to help raise money for her sister and for the cancer institute. Its all there on the flyer. I'm such a wuss about circulating it at work that I thought I'd better at least put it on my blog