A Success!

For the past month I have been lying to my boyfriend, hiding information from him, going around behind his back... all for the important night of March 29th. With some help from his friends, I stealthily pulled off a surprise party for his 30th birthday! He's claiming he "knew something was up" but I don't believe him for a second. He's in general very good at figuring things out but he'll let you know if he has. In this case, I did not hear one peep out of him about what he thought was meeting up with 2 recently wedded friends. So, I won :) His friends were great and chipped in to buy him a Nintendo Wii, which was amazing! The look on his face was priceless when he realized he was unwrapping a Wii (he's really been wanting one). He was really trying to keep his birthday quiet, but leave it to his girlfriend to change that one around! He's been saying for a couple of months now he would be going into hiding for the couple of weeks surrounding his 30th. We successfully worked around those plans of his and had such a fun time with everyone! Here are some pictures from the night:

This was after I had to push him through the door -
he failed to escape

so happy!

Playing his Wii

Thanks to everyone for their help! Couldn't have asked for things to come together more perfectly :)

Quick Catch-Up

Okay, so it's been quite a while so I'm going to sum up my past few weeks:

Part 1. I went to Spain (post-passport mishap)

Conclusion: fountains, bulls (saw hundreds), coca cola lite, tapas, really really old but beautiful buildings, pig legs hanging from restaurant ceilings (they like their meat fresh), clara con limon, Madrid, Segovia, La Coruna, Santiago ... if you need elaboration on any, feel free to ask.

Part 2. I turned 21!

Conclusion: Max Amore's, Lucky's, Ultra, drinks, drinks, drinks, and I absolutely love my friends: thank you to allison, jess, jill, erin, alisa, carrie, jason, dave, joe, steph, emily, brian, & tim for coming out on my bday night! And thanks to everyone else for all the bday wishes!

Part 3. The Here and Now

So now it's back to the norm - working and such. But Hallelujah! It's ice cream season (Michael's, DQ, the barn, hallmark's, friendly's, old lyme ice cream shoppe, take your freakin pick)!! AND Fred's Shanty is open and that can make any one's day absolutely amazing.

Last week I was able to spend a couple days up at the hospital with my dad as he went through his 2nd cycle of chemo. He's doing great so far - just more tired than usual and a little bit less hair. He keeps calling himself a penis head but the nurses like to call him daddy warbucks and I think I prefer the latter myself.

I'm still getting beat up in physical therapy 3x a week for my knee trying to avoid more surgery.

Tomorrow's my return to boys & girls club from nearly a month of not seeing those cute monsters. And that means my return to telling kids to sit down, be quiet, raise their hands, line up, sit still, sit normally, walk normally, don't run, keep their hands/feet/whole body to themselves... and, yet, I love my job.