I know most of you already know this and have seen pictures, so you can ignore this post. This post is for the rest of you who haven’t heard how amazingly incredible my 30th (wow!) birthday was. I’ll just start off with the fact that I have the MOST LOYAL AND DEDICATED friends e.v.e.r. Seriously. These girls just join right in on my crazy antics and are my sisters…not only “blood” sisters, but sisters for life, sisters in the faith…in everything!
I’ll just say two words to describe my birthday: REDNECK…wait for it….ROLLERDERBY. Wait, is that three words? Huh. Anyways. Yes, like a 12 year old, I rented out an entire roller skating rink just so we could party like it’s 1999…or 2010. Whatever. We dressed up in our finest roller derby gear, which included skirts, crazy tights, and various accessories ranging from a blue lightening bolt on a face (yeah, that’d be me…don’t hate) to Luke Perry dangle earrings to wrist bands that said “Talk Derby to Me”. We were serious…well, serious posers that is! We definitely did not do any official roller-derbying (is that a word?).The owners of this joint aka Skate-A-Rama were officially country. When we arrived they were lined up outside waiting on us…and I quote “We ain’t never had no party like dis befoe.” Yes, they even busted out their camera phones to capture the night of their life as well. If you find us on youtube, please let me know.
We did, however, have tons of fun. We skated around to various music artists, raced around the track, and even did the limbo. The “races” included two wipe-outs with injuries that included me breaking my tailbone (seriously) to Angela eating it in a fashion worthy of America’s Funniest Home Videos. I must say after breaking my tailbone for the second time in my life, I officially “felt” 30. You just don’t heal like you used to…kwim? Let me just poke fun at the “announcer” for our races too…for those of you who have seen The Waterboy with Adam Sandler, yeah, this guy talked like that crazy cajun dude. You couldn’t understand a word he said!?! He spoke in mumbles and spittles…and the race began something like this…”umkay..yusladys redy tos sturtthem reces?”…us, “huh?”…him, “i sed yalsredy tus recroun da treck?”…us, “huh?!?”…him, “albakme asklils lissle tislake”…ok, so I’m exagerating that last one a little. But srsly, you couldn’t understand him! haha.
It was so funny.
After breaking my tailbone I ventured over to enjoy my wonderful cupcakes and open my presents…standing. I laughed hard, I cried hard at all the wonderful and thoughtful presents. A couple of special note (they were all special, but just thought I’d mention a couple): Natalie knew one of the things on my bucket list was to learn to cook so she compiled a cookbook with friend’s favorite dishes! tears welling up…. Then Cindy aka Edward Cullen sent me an incredibly romantic card which had me bursting into laughter…lastly Meg put together a tear-jerking scrapbook of Spencer’s 30th surprise birthday party from last year. I couldn’t even look at the album there. I knew I would burst into some major tears. It was fabulous though.
For those wondering how I did emotionally going through my first BIG birthday without Spencer…I’ll just say this. He was there with me. I just know it. He would have planned something just as crazy and spontaneous and special for me. So, no matter that I had to arrange it myself (with the help of many friends…special thanks to Camille for the funky t-shirts), it was still special. I missed him terribly and wished he could have been there…let’s just say my birthday wish involved him.
After skating, we went out for sushi…my all-time favorite! YuM! Then we lamely went to the 80′s bar…appropriately named because they jam to 80′s music. However, since we started our evening so early to begin with, the bar wasn’t even open yet. Wow, did we feel silly! We chilled at Starbucks and then went back to listen to a couple songs. Check out the picture of Gayle and Alice doing the sprinkler…
I have learned a lot over the past year and a half. Perhaps in the next couple posts, I’ll let you take a peek into my thoughts on being 30…they are pretty deep.
As always I’m sending my love and letting my little light shine
Brianne
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