together, we burn it up!

since james and i have birthdays two days apart, the same-ish friends, and are in love, why wouldn't we celebrate our birthdays together?  instead of a big party like we had last year, we decided on a more tame birthday dinner.  unfortunately, a lot of awesome folks had work, class, were away, etc etc.  we still got a pretty lovely group together and had a really nice, relaxed time - it was just what i wanted.  these large group gatherings naturally happen less often than they used to during high  school, so it was great having a bunch of us being together again.  it's so easy to get caught up and forget just how much i miss some of these people.  ahh and i have to leave them again in a few weeks :(.  i love life at school to death, but i hate leaving behind my home friends.  we've grown up together.  obviously they may not know as much about me as the people that i've lived with at college, but they just know you in a different way.  its unexplainable, but its just such a casual, loving relationship i have with these people.  its a comfortable that can only be achieved through knowing each other for years.  even as we've all grown and changed, we still manage to have the same group dynamic.  yay for classic friends!  we tried to think of something to do after dinner but it was either:  too lame, we had too many people, we were underage, or parents were home.  sooo, we just stuck around the restaurant chatting it up before heading our separate ways.  BUT... not before having dessert of course.  now, you all know i LOVE peanut butter, but did you know, i also loveee cookie dough?  well, imagine my pure ecstacy and joy when i saw behind the glass case a cheesecake with the label "chocolate peanut butter cookie dough."  i dont think i could make something that good up.  me and james didn't think twice about ordering it for the table :P.  indulgent would be an under-exaggeration of the experience.  just for kicks, anna asked me for a ride tonight even tho she has a car.  we really haven't hung out all that much, but she's an interesting character fosho.  i know there are people that have issues with her, but they just don't understand her.  she doesn't always think before she speaks and tends to be guarded, but once you give her a chance, she's kickass.  when the two of us got into my camry to drive home, she stopped me as i was about to turn on the always oh so disappointing radio to pull out a tape of gangster rap that she keeps in her purse... badass!  so what did we do?  of course we rolled down the windows (literally, my car's just that old and ghetto you have to do it manually),  and we blasted that shit the whole ride home - ballllllllllllin!  we also ditched english in favor of ghetto french while taking pictures that could have easily caused near death experiences the whole ride.  well, what's life without a little risk, right?

je l'aime quand vous m'appelez grand poppa!  jetez vos mains dans le ciel si vous etes un jouer vrai!  .. je vois quelques dames ce soir cela qui devrait avoir mon bebe, bay-bee!