small things, large things, sad things, happy things.

this past week has been so insane.

birthday celebrations kicked off on tuesday night. everyone headed to pamela and mia's, to start the countdown. karina and cheryl surprised me by making a cake complete with a "happy birthday" sing-a-long at midnight. on wednesday (my actual birthday) i wanted to keep it low key so i ran around with my sister all day. we shopped a little, grabbed ice cream, and got manicures. i had to work later in the evening, but afterwords we got together for a family dinner. my mom cooked out, and made my favorite meal. :) it was SO GOOD. on thursday celebrations continued. i invited everyone to georgetown for dinner and drinks at j.pauls. it was so beautiful the entire day, until it was time for us to leave and of course it monsooooned. we headed to the metro and trekked two blocks in the rain to the restaurant. despite some small glitches, everything went pretty smoothly. we got a private room, the food and drinks were amazing! mostly, the company is what made my birthday so wonderful. i'm so happy i got to spend it with all the people i love most. :)

FRIDAY! molly and i headed into baltimore to see person L play at sonar. we forgot to mapquest directions to the club, so molly attempted to google directions via her phone. of course, the directions were completely wrong, and we ended up a little lost. luckily we found our way and made it to sonar JUST in time to see person L , we missed the first song. they were incredible. kenny has so much energy, and such a strong stage presence, you can't help but dance and sing along. what a good night, and great adventure. (THANK YOU MOLLY!!!)

sad things - i'm going to have to postpone my trip to california until september (hopefully). for the past couple of months i've been working at the swimming pool, interpreting for a deaf swimming instructor. this particular job was mon-thurs, every week this summer. jobs like that are so key, because they're a constant job, and a bulk of my paycheck. the classes were supposed to run through the second week of august. kevin (the instructor) informed me he was taking off for the last session... so i'm losing all that money. it just isn't the right time for me to fly out, so hopefully i can find some time to head out this fall. :( i'm pretty bummed, but it will all work out.

it's been a great week.