Tired. Broke. Full. Happy. LIFE IS GOOD.

My birthday month-long celebration has finally commenced. I believe I started celebrating a week before my actual birthday, starting with lunches, then dinners and brunches came up along the way, until finally I finished with a 2-hour clean up of my apt from all the celebrations and neglect from going out to dinners/lunches/brunches.

So lets start:
Nov. 6 - Japanese lunch w/ coworkers (also Nina's bday)
Nov. 7 - Belgium restaurant "Markt" for dinner and drinks w/ Nov bday celebrants in the office
Nov. 8 - Ethiopian brunch @ meat-packing district w/ Aggie
Nov. 9 - Family lunch/dinner @ my apt
Nov. 12 - coworkers got me an oreo ice cream cake as a suprise :]
Nov. 13 - day off! Birthday girl gets breakfast, her "personal driver", lunch @ our favorite Irish pub w/ the best beer/burgers. Free shot of Petron! SHOOTING RANGE! WOo! I'm ready for my gun license!
Nov. 15 - Lunch w/ old school roomies: Kay and Agatha @ Juniors
Nov. 16 - Girls and their hubbies/significant others came over my apt where I cooked BBQ spare ribs, and Joaquin made some amazing shrimp ceviche. Beers (for the men) and sangria (for the women) were plentiful. I got drunk quick and prayed at night that I wouldn't throw up.

Now, back to normal.. boo.. ;P

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING! FROM EMAIL/PHONE/TEXT/MYSPACE/FACEBOOK BDAY WISHES TO ACTUALLY CELEBRATING W/ ME IN YOUR OWN SPECIAL WAY (bc of me you are broke. ;] sorry!!)

So now that I can reflect on being 26 years old, all I can say is: I don't feel 26 (I try to keep my health in check), I have ppl in my life who care about me, I have ppl in my life who love me and I love them back. So the economy is falling apart, everything is expensive, Wall St is doing more layoffs, I have a bit of a knee pain, but LIFE IS SO DAMN GOOD. Whatever will come my way, BRING IT! because I've gotten this far SANE, can't wait to see how much farther I can go...
As you get older, you just see the "bigger picture" and its much more gratifying than the little things.

:]