tell that monkey to quit whisperin in my lesbian convention cause i hate atlanta.
arright arright. birfday recap 2005. #23. im old niggas.
kay.
so friday im at work. round about the middle of the day, a lady holdin flowers and a balloon walks in the office. i look up like 'oh my mercy! my daddy got me flowers!' he used to send me flowers on valentines day and my birfday when i was younger.. i thought that us talkin lately rekindled that in him and it made me feel pretty good. but they wasnt from him.
they was from the hubby yo.
HOW SWEET IS THAT?!
tiger lillies carnations big spikey dahlias
yellows, pinks, purples and greens
it was so beautiful. i almost cried, but i held on to my gangsta.
bout 15 minutes later, what walks though the door but...
MO' FLOWERS!!
these WERE from my daddy. how bout that, man. so far.... best birthday ever. his flowers were in big, loud strong bold colors of flashy specimens.
roses tulips sunflowers some sort of daisy
deep deep reds and purples and oranges and pinks and greens
(i secretly like the first bouquet better, but shhhhhhhhhhhh... i love them both)
robin said we'd all have lunch monday in honor of my birthday since everybody wasnt there friday. sweet.
after work my mother met me downtown so we could go to dinner at TGI Fridays. she came up to my office to help me carry my rainforesty garden of flora down to the car. dinner at friday's was a little off. i got the spinach and artichoke dip as an appetizer which is typically really good. that time, not so much. i tried to get a pina colada but it was just nasty so i sent it back (yo, remember the colada i got at tgi's in philly? also nasty. i see a pattern). for dinner i just had chicken tenders and fries--my mother thought i should have gotten somethin flashier, but eh. i didnt.
at the table she gave me a really pretty birthday bag. inside were two dvd's--'american pimp' (how did she know it was one of my favorites??!?!) and a recording of jimi hendrix performing live at the isle of wight. so dope.
also in the bag was my official acceptance letter from columbia. they let me in. :o)
we get home and i walk in to find a pretty happy birthday banner and a table full of birhday cake and cupcakes and 23 balloons (!!!) my mama is the sweetesth thing ever... 'you know i had to get you SOME sort of surprise, right? i was out in the rain all day gettin this stuff together.'
i love her so much.
she called my neices and the other girls and they mama and stepdaddy down and we all had a grand ol time, mostly laughing at the baby's antics.
candis and lenee called to wish me a happy birthday :o) i didnt hear from brittany though. i was almost positive that i would.
ah well.
now. my friends sean and teddy had planned a night out for me. i sincerely didn't want to go. i mean i was DREADING it, for several reasons, the main one being that we wouldnt be leaving until around 12 b/c that's when sean got off of work. so i spent the hrs after everybody left trying desperately to keep the sands of time from slipping out of my hand. it didnt work.
11:45 and i was out the door.
first we just drove around in the rain. when i finally paid attention to where we were going, we were on a highway heading east. im like 'where the hell are we goin?!'
they just shrugged their shoulders. we truly had no destination.
they presented me with my present as we rode, though. it was a cd, one without a title. actually they gave it to me before we left the house and when i asked why it was blank, they said 'we figured we'd let the night title it. wait til u get some inspiration.'
so anyway, im thinkin this is just gonna be a mix cd, and it is sorta.. cept it was a buncha instrumentals over which they freestyled abt different inside jokes and topics and yall... it's hilarious. lmao itd take me forever to explain it all, but i will run down some classic lines and tracks.
-for the intro they recreated the soup spoon joke from coming to america. hilarious.
-they did a track as common and lil wayne called 'vegans and heathens'--i just dont know where to start explaining that
-on of my favorites--they re-did kanye's 'the whole city behind us' and rhymed about how they can never find my house.. 'where she at? the whole city cant find her..' lol!!
-as an interlude they asked teddy's mama to send me some well wishes.. while she was givin a lil speech, they started doin the church hum/moan, then outta nowhere they started beatboxin, and teddy's mama just broke out with IT'S YA BIRFDAY! IT'S YA BIRFDAY! lol hilarious, especially since i think she's a preacher.
-after seeing the picture of d'angelo in all his husky glory, they played 'devil's pie' and reinacted d'angelo deciding that he really does want some pie 'YOU REALLY THINK IM SAYIN SOMETHIN DEEP, WHEN IM JUST HUNGRY! NIGGA I WAWNT SOME PIEEEE!!'
-'rubber neck man,' by luke whitehead and francisco garcia (former u of l ball players)... 'bounce your neck back and forth like a biiyeetch' lmao i still dont understand that one
-a happy birthday song to my bangs ('happy birfday, bangs... cover ya forehead up, niggas')
and so many other memorable moments.
so then we go to denny's, where i see my crazy ass neighbor walkin around with an open jar of miracle whip.... your guess is as good as mine on that one. we sat behind a table of very butch lesbians and for some reason it was the funniest thing to me. i spent the whole meal trying not to look at them and laugh cause it would have seemed like i was lesbian intolerant when really im not. i just dont know why i was laffin.
from there they took me to my first bar, called 'the backdoor.' it was... interesting. full of smoke. i smelled like an ashtray when i left that place.
i had fun though! all we did was sit and talk about people and laugh, like we used to do all the time. there was an old drunk ass white man there who i thought had a crush on teddy cause he came up and just hugged him really hard as he was whispering stuff in his ear when we sat down. turns out teddy was sitting in his seat. at first the seating arrangement was teddy, sean, and me.. after sean got up though, teddy had me take his seat and sit in the middle of them, reason being that the drunk white man was actually trying to holla at me through teddy.
..unnerving.
but instinct kicked in and we used the old faithful survival tactic. teddy told him that i was his girlfriend and dude backed off. but he kissed teddy's hand first, which leads me to believe taht he was using teddy to get to me to use me to get to teddy.
makes no sense, right? nothing much did that night.
they ordered me a pineapple juice & malibu which was really good, then we found out that they give free birthday drinks with proof of birfday. she tried to give me a yeager bomb, which i wouldnt drink--i had a feelin my lil ass would be on the ground if i did--so teddy drank it instead and i had an electric koolaid. as frou frou as that sounds, it got me kinda nice.. lmao. my liver is the size of a thimble, im sure, so it dont take much.
from there we were gonna go to some club, but first we had to find an atm. i thought there was one in this lil porn shop next to said club, so we ducked in, but there was no atm there. we talked with the cashier guy a few mins while he helped us find one, and by the time we found it it was set to close in 20 minutes and the cover was 10 bucks. so we just went home.
because of random things that happened and were said through out the night, the title of this entry is what we named the cd.
today i went to dinner with my daddy, and i actually had a good time. seriously, i dont know when that has happened. he was very pleasant to be around, we laughed and joke. i was more comfortable with him today than ive ever been in my life. i think its because he was genuinely glad to see me--he hugged and kissed me twice when i opened my front door and ke hept tellin me how pretty i was. i realized that i'd missed him. hopefully something good will grow of this before its too late. he also gave me some money for my upcoming trips to philly and chicago.
so all in all, i had an excellent birthday. thanks to all who made it happen :o)
