Murphy's Birthday Law

What a day, what a day, what a day!
Yesterday was nuts. 



Friday night I (was so tired that I) went to bed at 7pm and woke up at 7am to make baked goods to take to the old folks home.

Disaster #1: While the cupcakes I made were perfect, the brownies were way undercooked and inedible.

Disaster #2: The venue for my b-day party called THE DAY OF THE PARTY and wanted to move my party up a half hour. So I had to call everyone and tell them about the time change. It kept a few people from coming.

Bingo with the elderly went well, and afterward, I went to Starbucks.



Disaster #3: I told the barista at Starbucks that it was my birthday and she looked at me like I was nuts. I felt really stupid. Like…she gawked at me for a solid 3 minutes, thinking that my name was "birthday."

Weirdness #1: Ran into one of my students at Starbucks for the second day in a row.

Weirdness #2: That student and I both left Starbucks at the same time and both showed up at the cake place.

Picking up my cake…

Disaster #4: The cake was fine until we got to the venue and noticed that it had a major fondant blowout. But my party was starting and nothing could be done. The cake place (right up the street) refused to come to the party and fix it/replace it. In fact, they wanted me to leave my party and bring it to them….yeah…no…



Disaster #5: About three of my friends (who had RSVP'd yes, said that they couldn't come, THE DAY OF, so there went three reserved seats that other people could've enjoyed if they'd RSVP'd correctly. Apparently RSVPing means absolutely nothing. Although, one of them did have a really good reason that they weren't able to come.

Disaster #6: The instructor at the painting place called me Jessica instead of Liz.

Disaster #7: The instructor was supposed to draw the cardinal on the canvases, but "since we were all adults," she thought that "we could handle it." Keep in mind that only me and one other person at the party were artistic.

Disaster #8: They couldn't find the sample painting of the cardinal, so we had no sample to look at as we painted it.

Disaster #9: The instructor's timing was SO OFF. We painted the branches and bird first, and then had to go back and paint in the sky (which is totally backwards). At the end, we had less than 15 mins to paint the bird.

Disaster #10: The instructor didn't give us any breaks during the painting, so barely anyone got wine or pizza. And we were so rushed at the end that I had to give my guests "cake to go."

Hahaha.

Other disasters of the week: 

 + I didn't sell all 20 of the tickets to my art show, so I now have to pay the remaining balance.
+ The only art opening in the district was filled, and that school didn't even bother interviewing me.       They also didn't take into consideration that it might be courteous to call the applicants and say "hey, the position has been filled! Sorry!"
+ The camera I JUST BOUGHT at the Houston Camera Exchange just went on sale.
+ And today I find out that TCU got screwed when it comes to playoffs!

But you know what? I still had an awesome birthday. I mean, seriously, I had a great birthday. It just goes to show that it's WHO your with, not the little details that matter.



The best gift I could've ever asked for is having all these wonderful friends. And hey, they did pretty darn well for being novice painters!


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