Well, I am now 28. Two short years away from 30 - eek! My birthday was on Friday, so I had to work.. but it was alright because I spent the first half of the day in bed. :) Well, working while laying in bed. But to be honest, I do that a lot, so it really was no different than usual. :P

That is, until Tim got home from work. We had plans to go out for dinner, so we got all dressed up and headed out to Coco for insanely expensive, strongly alcoholic drinks (on empty stomachs). We had a reservation for 8pm at an indian restaurant in Oxford and I actually turned 28 while sitting at the front of the restaurant, waiting to be seated to our table - 8:06pm here is 3:06pm in Niagara Falls. :) I had my usual chicken tikka masala, but it just wasn’t creamy enough. Other than that, dinner was nice. They even gave us free veggies! After our dinner, we met up with Janel and Jon and went to George and Delila’s. I decided to make a special order for my birthday since I hadn’t had any birthday cake - a huge chocolate brownie, with a scoop of super chocolate ice cream and chocolate hot fudge on top. It was amazing, but I felt like throwing up after. It was worth it though! Then we went to the Cape of Good Hope for drinks, where a bunch of Tim’s work friends had congregated.

We stayed out for as long as I could handle it, then I decided I really needed to get home and open my presents!!!! Tim had wrapped some things he had bought for me when we were out shopping together - a coat and some tights from Primark. He also got me a Chelsea shirt.. I think he wants me to love football as much as he does but I just can’t seem to get into it. It feels like I’m cheating on hockey or something :( haha. He also told me he will buy me a bracelet from Dior, I just have to pick it out.. he didnt know which one I wanted. I’m not even sure, I am going to have to try them on when we’re in London this weekend ;)

I also had presents from my Mom, brother and Aunts that they had sent over earlier in September. They sat in our living room staring at me until I finally got to open them. My Mom and brother got me an xbox 360!! I also got a second controller, 2800 points, Viva Pinata: Trouble In Paradise, and Uno. I am already addicted to playing Carcassone on xbox :( My Aunt also got me a sweater that is horrendously too big. :) After I opened everything, I called my Mom and talked to her, then talked to my brother for advice and etc on the xbox and how to set it up and everything. I ended up staying up till 3:30am, setting up my xbl account and such :S We still have to get an hdmi cable, so it should look pretty sweet when we get that. It’s running at 1080i now which is pretty nice.

Saturday was a crazy day. I had to get to the bank before 1, which thankfully I did, and then went on a hunt through the shopping centre to find a muffin tin to use to make buttertarts. Went to Sainsbury’s, picked up chips and pop and stuff for the party, then headed home. Tim spent like an hour steaming the slipcovers for our sofa because we had washed them on Friday and they were soooo wrinkled. Then he hung balloons out the windows and blew up tons of balloons that are still floating around the house :) I baked, and while things would be in the oven, I’d clean. It was insanity. At 5:30 I hopped in the shower, and by 6:30 I was arranging the nanaimo bars I baked onto a plate for my lovely spread I put out! Tim and I stood in the kitchen at 6:50, eating pizza - our first meal of the day.

My birthday party on Saturday night went really well. The nanaimo bars were a hit, if only with Mark (who has been to Canada many times and loves nanaimo bars). Everyone seemed to have a good time, and we played some Guitar Hero 3 and Mario Kart Wii. I got some really nice gifts, Heather even got me a ‘Carrie necklace’, except mine says Laura and it’s silver!!!! I have always wanted one of those :)

Sunday was supposed to be recuperation day, but we ended up going for a little bike ride to the pub. That totally killed me, plus the fact that I was up late Saturday night playing xbox again, and woke up at 9:30am on Sunday (no idea WHY that EARLY!) I think I am still recuperating actually, and I attempted to go to bed tonight at 11:30 and here it is, 2am. And with that, I think it’s bedtime. :)