Birthday Week was great! My birthday was Tuesday, June 1st, but I started my birthday week on Wednesday, May 27th. Jaime and I went to Umami Burger on Cahuenga in Hollywood. Jaime had an Umami burger and I had a Pastrami Umami. That ISH was DELISH! We hadn't had beef in a while, but decided to throw caution to the wind this week, and we paid for it dearly! But I'd eat it a million more times!
Thursday my incision was really achy. I think I did to much walking the day before, so I had to chill. I know it won't be until the end of July when I'm completely healed, but I'm over it already. I want to be 100% right now! I did a whole lot of nothing then went to American Girl in Grove to visit with Jaime on his break.
Friday MS crep out of nowhere and had me down. I had an awful migraine, which is a common symptom. I felt like my brain was gonna fall out so I stayed home. When the headache let up I watched An Unfinished Life and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day over and over again and gave myself a mani/pedi. I also read Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris. My friend Rose Marie called to let me know she was surprising me by coming to LA for my birthday. She was just gonna show up but she knows how I hate surprises and she can't hold water anyway. I felt bad because I'm sure I hurt her feelings. She was so happy and I sounded like I didn't care. I tried my best to sound excited, but my head was hurting so bad it just didn't work. She said she understood, but I could hear the hurt in her voice. She's so sweet, it killed me to upset her.
Saturday I felt like myself again so I went to the Hairspray audition for Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) I broke it down for them and got an immediate callback. I know Texas summer heat is ferocious, but it would be great to cast in that show. I love that Motormouth Maybelle speaks in all rhymes like Dolomite! One of the casting guys told my how great I looked about five times. While it was very flattering I was thinking, "Okay, I know I look good. It's my job to look good. Do I look good enough to be cast?" YA KNOW!!! I felt really cute afterward so I went to visit Jaime at work. He loves when I visit him while I'm looking fabulous.
Sunday I slept all day so I had to go to the Life Teen mass at 5:30p. It was really terrible. The bad contemporary christian singing is a bit much and the service is always waaay to long. But I truly learned a lot from the homily. It was all about miracles. I felt it was an appropriate topic for my birthday week.
Monday Jaime and I went to the Fiesta Hermosa. We really love Hermosa Beach so we go to this festival every time it comes, which is Memorial and Labor Day weekend. We got up early so we could find parking but the parking lot we usually park in was blocked of this year. I was really irritated because we like to sit on the beach for a couple of hours before we walk around the festival and I knew I wasn't well enough to help carry our towels and such if we had to park far. We drove around for about and hour looking for parking. Finally one of the security guys told us about parking at the high school, then we could take a shuttle to the beach. So we drove there and minimize our beach gear to stuff that would be easy to carry, the hopped on the shuttle. We went straight for the beach. It was such a beautiful day. I luuuurve the beach. We talked, people watched, listened to the waves, and ate our snacks. We sat on the beach for two and a half hours then we decided the walk the festival. It was really great. We took pictures and had fun holding hands and seeing everything. When we walked for about two hours I started to have a lot of pain. I barely made it back to the beach to sit and have rest. Jaime was so worried that he carried all of the beach gear and we made it back to sit. We stayed for an hour more then went home. Even though I was a little uncomfortable because of the surgery, we had a blast. We decided to return to the beach Wednesday when Rosie got here.
Tuesday was my birthday! I love birthdays! They're your own personal Christmas! I went in for my post-op appointment at 10:10. I was running late because it was my birthday and I wanted to look superfly. It turned out to be fine because they were overbooked so I had to wait an hour. I watched the pregnant women and the husbands come and go and thought, "That'll be us next year. Wow." I went in, got weighed, and found out I lost 4 pounds which made the day guaranteed to be great! I saw my OB. She said everyhting looked great. She said we could try to conceive starting the end of July. If we aren't pregnant by December she wants us the see a fertility doctor. I made it clear that I am not interested in taking hormones. Since the fibroids are gone I feel we'll be able to do it on our own.
Jaime took the week off so I would have a great birthday.
