Did you notice?

Did you notice I didn't blog about Weigh in Wednesday this morning?  After all, it is Wednesday.

Let me tell you why.  Seeing as yesterday was my birthday, I don't think calories should count on your birthday.  I know, what irrational thinking.  That is exactly why I am overweight now.  Trust me, I know.

But.  My one wish for my birthday was that Sean get me an ice cream cake from Cold Stone Creamery.  Boy, did he come through.  He got me the six inch sized cake.  It layers red velvet cake with cake batter flavored ice cream.  It was amazing.

Not only did Sean get me a fantastic cake, he also made my birthday a thousand times better.  You see, yesterday I was feeling pretty blue.  I totally wanted to have a pity party by myself for the entire day.  I think I've figured out the reason why I was so upset, and no, it's not only because I discovered my first wrinkle.  I've been having a mini quarter life crisis.  I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I want to do with my life and I can guarantee it is not what I am doing now.  I want to find something where I am genuinely happy to wake up and go to work every day.  Yesterday and the days leading up to it I was completely freaking out.  I still kind of am, but I will find my way.

Anyway, about my birthday evening.  I got home from work and Sean showed me the cake in the freezer and the bottle of wine he picked up for me.  He cooked me dinner: steak, roasted veggies, and baked potato.  I drank my bottle of wine over the course of the evening.  Sean gave me Adele's CD so I can belt it while in the car.  He let me watch Glee, New Girl, and Raising Hope.  He let me fall asleep on the couch with a lap kitty.  It was a fantastic end to the day.

Of course phone calls from my parents, Becky and Charlie, and a text message from Travis were very important to me as well.  Katie even sang me happy birthday when I got to work yesterday morning.  All in all, my 24th birthday was pretty great.  It was definitely better than last year's recovery from my appendectomy surgery.

Today though, calories totally count.  Now it is all focus on losing weight for the wedding dress and reminding myself of how badly I want to reach my goal weight. 

Birthday.



Photo via Designer Wife

Happy birthday to me!  I'm not excited.  I convinced myself last night I have a wrinkle on my forehead.  I used to be so excited about my birthday, after all it is my favorite day of the year.  But not this year.  Katie said it's a sign of getting old. 

Ho hum.

January thoughts.

January has come and gone (already).  Weird. 

My birthday is in a week.  Also weird.  I'm significantly less excited for it this year than I have been in previous years.  And I don't know why.  If you know me at all, you know how excited I get about my birthday, so this especially strange.

Maybe it's me just getting older?  Whatever it is, I need to snap out of it.

Wedding planning update time.  The last big planning thing is that we need is to find a photographer.  I'm getting burnt out on the photographer search because most of them are well out of the price range, like double or triple out of the price range.  The photographers that we do find in the price range have an astronomical travel fee.  All I can see is dollar signs when I try to find a photographer. 

Mom, I know, we talked about this, but I am a cheap (I prefer thrifty) person.  I would totally do the wedding photography if I wasn't actually in the wedding. 

I think I need to lay off the photographer search for a week and dive back in.  That is the thing that is stressing me out the most right now.

Ho hum.

What do you have going on in January?  Any winter blues?

Happy birthday to Sean!

Yesterday was Sean's birthday. 

He requested a chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting, and boy did I deliver.

Dark chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting topped with chopped up Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

It's beautiful.

It tasted just as good as it looks.  I found a peanut butter frosting recipe that is a keeper.  The peanut butter frosting recipe can be found here, from Joy the Baker.

Happy birthday Sean!  We went to the Minnesota Wild game last night.  It was a fantastic blow out game against Vancouver.  Wild won 5-1.  There were a couple great fights, which is my favorite part.