twenty-first.

just realized that this is the only time i will have a birthday with two elevens: 4/11/11 or how they say it in ireland.. 11/4/11. cool!

i woke up (after three hours of tumultuous sleep thanks to a pot of coffee and cramming for an irish exam) to a beautiful morning after a night of stormy weather in an empty apartment. i read myself this ee cummings poem:

here's to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap
and to your(in my arms flowering so new)
self whose eyes smell of the sound of rain

and here's to silent certainly mountains;and to
a disappearing poet of always,snow
and to morning;and to morning's beautiful friend
twilight(and a first dream called ocean)and

let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid
down with ought with because with every brain
which thinks it thinks,nor dares to feel(but up
with joy;and up with laughing and drunkenness)

here's to one undiscoverable guess
of whose mad skill each world of blood is made
(whose fatal songs are moving in the moon

lovvvvvvvveeeeeeee him.

then i donned my new black and tan primark dress, red cardigan, tan flats, and rolled skinnys and headed off to my irish final.

where i was greeted by my dear friend lauren and a latte she wrote "happy birthday" all over. :) then i owned that test. and the oral exam.

i just returned from tesco, where i bought myself hot pink roses, light pink and white carnations, and food for my party tonight!

lauren is coming over in a couple hours to bake cupcakes, make stuffed mushrooms, and garlic bread.. i also bought fruit, chips, salsa, guacamole, hummus, and stuff for mimosas!

we are also celebrating another girl's from my program birthday that was yesterday.. everyone is coming at eight and then we will go downtown around midnight. :) i think i can run on three hours of sleep for this? i have to! you only turn twenty-one once!

i received three beautiful pink cards in the mail yesterday filled with pictures of loved ones! (thanks mom, dad, mamaw, aunt patti) <3

here's to birthdays and those that make them special.