PROJECT KIT: AKA…The Birthday I Can Hardly Believe Happened (Mine!)

Me and My Birthday Balloon

My BIRTHDAY was last week!

It was absolutely the most amazing birthday a girl could ever have. WHY? Because I love my friends.

They MADE me a blog. I repeat,

they MADE me a blog.

Me: I BLOG. For fun and for a living, so what better way for my friends to show me how well they know me and know what I like than for them to whip out a BLOG? (No. Not a post. An entire BLOG!) Check it out.

First, they setup a blog on Blogspot.

Then, they started comment threads by putting up a blog post and emailing ALL my friends (and family!) to post on the different threads.

And finally, the posted a big slew of pictures from ALL different phases of life! (Including…Easter 2008)

Just one of the MANY pictures!

And…I want to say 2 things.

1. I absoLUTEly did not expect any of this. I realize I orchestrate birthday fun, but doing it brings me so much joy. I actually…gave instructions NOT to do something like this, though, I entirely take them back now.

2. I’ve seen my friends at a loss for words when so many people gather around them on their birthdays, and I can confirm…it is actually impossible to even form one sentence trying to explain the overwhelming feeling of being loved and, as Kaspy put it, known. I just cannot believe the amount of effort that was put in a project just to make me smile. The hours of setting up a blog, the emails and the follow ups, the fact that my San Francisco friends managed to get in touch with my entire community in LA. And…a little birdie told me that Miss Rosalie and Brittany held an all-day workshop at our local coffee shop to train the non-bloggers among us. (Can you BELIEVE IT?)

It is…utterly impossible to describe the wonder of being loved extravagantly.

And to top it off…there was a 7 AM desk decorating party by Banksie and Grey…

Nice little treat first thing in the AM.