so more birthday crap. because i can't concentrate on work...

i found out that there is such a thing as a star ruby. i've heard of star sapphires. i think they're gorgeous. i love sapphires in general, and star sapphires are just beautiful. i've always been disappointed that my birth stone is a ruby and not a sapphire. but now i found out that there are star rubies as well. i've never seen one. but now i need one. a pinkish one. because i love pink. here's a page on star sapphires and rubies.

so i went to look for my birthday horoscope online. i used to always look at the birthday horoscope in the times union. it felt so special to read it on your birthday because there's only one day a year that you can read the birthday horoscope and have it apply to you. i don't get the times union now that i don't live at home and they didn't have their horoscopes on their site (or at least they weren't easily found). so i did a google search for "horoscope birthday" and i found the New York Post horoscope for my birthday. Here it is:

Your Horoscope for July 17, 2003
IF THURSDAY, JULY 17TH IS YOUR BIRTHDAY
You will be incredibly impulsive this year: You will come and go at the drop of a hat and you will change direction, both in your personal life and in your career, without hesitation. Travel of all kinds is especially well starred, and the further away your adventures take you, the more you will get out of them. You may decide not to come back.

so how exciting is that? i have become incredibly impulsive in the last year, so i can definitely see that first part applying to me. and i am travelling to Ireland in August, which is the furthest i've ever travelled. how exciting! what if i never come back? that would certainly be a change in my personal life and career...

so now i'm all excited for my 24th year.

they say it's my birthday

so that's cool :) i'm 24. definitely mid-twenties. that sucks. i'm not a kid anymore. that must make my parents feel old.

Dodi came over last night and we made cookies. I wanted to make myself a birthday cake but apparently that's a pathetic thing to do and Meredith had told me not to do that when I mentioned it at work earlier.

my coworkers decorated my cubicle for me today. rock. everyone should know it's my birthday and do nice things for me ;)

i'm very excited to go out tonight and see hair of the dog. it's hard to concentrate here at work. people should be excused from working on their birthday.

so just in case anyone forgot: tomorrow is my birthday! yay!

i'll be an old lady... 24 :(

but i'll be going to mcgeary's tomorrow to celebrate my birthday and see hair of the dog, which rules! and remember, if you are my friend, you should come. and if you do not come you will make me pouty. and it's hella mean to make someone pouty on their birthday.

i think i'm going to bake myself a cake tonight.

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet emoooooooooooooooooooooooootion.

i'm listening to that song here at work. rock.

so this weekend was pretty good. saw Pirates of the Caribbean on friday night. i loved that movie. first of all, Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom are extremely hot. and Johnny Depp was very entertaining as the flamboyant and crazy Captain Jack Sparrow. and there were these little references in the movie to the ride at Disney World it was based on. like, there was a scene where prisoners were trying to tempt a dog that was holding the keys to the cell in his mouth with a bone. so right out of the ride. very cool. anyway, i'm going to have to own that movie when it comes out on DVD.

Saturday I went to Sam's Club with my parents. they bought me shampoo and conditioner and contact solution. which rocks. i could have used some food as well, but when they asked me if i needed anything i felt very odd about asking for anything and they really had to keep at me to get me to ask for the shampoo and the contact stuff. getting those for me really helps though, because they're expensive items to buy. Later on I went with Beck to see Chicago (the movie) at Proctor's Theater. We were supposed to meet Carrie and John and Jen Peters, but we got there late and the movie had already started so we just found seats. It was awesome seeing a movie at Proctors. It felt like you were seeing a real show. And because it was a musical i wanted to clap after every number. And to top it all off, it was cheap: $2 to sit orchestra level and $3 for the balcony. Afterwards we met with Carrie, John, and Jen and went to Uno's for dessert/drinks. I needed the peanut butter cup dessert they have there. it is so good.

Sunday I went to lunch with the lunch crew at Macaroni Grill. It was my birthday lunch and they brought me gifts and bought my lunch. rock! i made my own pasta dish (an option there) and it was fabulous: penne pasta with asiago cheese sauce and roasted garlic cloves, artichoke hearts and mushrooms topped with grilled shrimp. so good. Carrie and Amy gave me a gift certificate to Victoria's Secret and these awesome martini glasses that they have at Uno's (and that i was just admiring the night before) that have cobalt blue stems that twist. Joanne and John gave me a $50 gift cerficate to Bath and Body Works which I promptly speant that afternoon. it was so cool. Beck and I went to the mall right afterwards and the girls at Bath and Body Works said they had coupons there that they couldn't use: for $50 off of $100. so i got $100 worth of stuff and all i had to pay was $6 for tax. so cool. i got the complete line of a new "flavor" that smells like gin and tonics (well, it's coconut line verbena). it's awesome. and i got a bunch of candles and i got my mom's birthday gift (her birthday is today). rock. it was the coolest thing ever. later on I went with Alex to see The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. it was not so good. very disappointing. suck. it was cool to hear Sean Connery say "That was naughty" but you can hear that on the previews so save your money.

ugh. long day. i really wanted to write a nice long post about the weekend, but then i got home this evening and paid all of my second-half-of-the-month-bills and now i'm poor and depressed so i'm just going to bed.

bills suck.