estela's great all-american birthday!

thank you lxy<3, as you know i love you back very much!!!!

i've been eating cadbury marshmallow easter eggs to celebrate, they are a bit inappropriate but a lot delicious.

i just went to pilates and the instructor said 'you are powering away' and i didn't tell him my energy stemmed from eating a chocolate marshmallow egg in the car going there because i feared it would disappoint him.

happiest of birthdays to you, estela

aw thank you, tehresa!!

HB!!!!!!!!!

estela should get a whole month of birthday! happy birthday!

estela's birthday lasts the ENTIRE YEAR here in the sandbox!

happy birthday estela! come to nz in may for our wedding party!! it's gonna be greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat!!

estela

aw, thank you all!

justin3!! tell us about your wedding party just in case there is a tiny chance i can go.

well, nothing is formally planned yet BUT i've been feeling super bummed that literally NO ONE is coming to my wedding this month (except my parents, which is nice but i'm really close to either of them, and not even my lil' sis can make it ;_:), so since we will have a little extra money soon (fingers crossed), i really really want to host a party at nicolini's as a kind of post-wedding celebration. i'm even going to send out proper invites! i'll probably organise something with the boys at the restaurant - book out the courtyard on the last saturday we're in wellington, have a bar tab set up, and have the kitchen send out big plates of food, buffet-style. nothing too formal or sit-down. it'll be a good way to meet up with all my friends at once, introduce jordan (poor boy!!) and have a good time!

but we haven't even booked our tickets to nz yet! but we'll looking to be there first 2 weeks of may: first couple of days in auckland to see my two BFs there, then 5 days or so in taranaki, then a week in welli (i can't wait!!!!).

estela i will just die if you can make it!

<3

dont go estela it would be tragic for justine to die during her wedding party

i don't care, i like parties.

ps. you are all welcome at our official wedding on march 27 & 28 in chicago. we literally couldn't get even one friend between the two of us to come!

we are such losers

<3 love this, thank you! <3

our internet was being horribly slow so i had to make quite a few attempts before i could watch it right through but today i finally succeeded.

from The Onion:

Man At Very Top Of Food Chain Chooses Bugles

SOUTH BEND, IN—Despite having no natural enemies and belonging to a species that completely dominates its ecosystem, local IT manager Reggie Atkinson opted to consume the processed corn snack Bugles Monday. "I was in the mood for something salty and crunchy, and it's a little early for dinner," said the ultimate predator, whose ancestors' bipedal locomotion, toolmaking abilities, and advanced spatial recognition developments allowed them to hunt animals 10 times their size. "These are original, but the other flavors are pretty good, too." Acting on an impulse from an incredibly complex forebrain that has evolved over millions of years, Atkinson then took note of the Bugles' amusing conical shape and placed one on each of his opposable thumbs like little wizard hats.

i like the cut of his jib.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkr0VYcZ-eY

<3 that is just about the rottenest thing i have seen in my whole life.

<3 !!!

http://producten.hema.nl/

<3<3<3 i couldn't view that at first, i was in a slow internets place.

omggggggg! in addition to it still being your birthday here, it is already your birthday there!!!!!!!!!!

what a wonderful terrific day for a wonderful terrific person.

i love you, dearestela!

hb, e!!

i never know when it's really her great all-american birthday

Happy birthday estela today and every day!

aw, thank you dear sandboxlors<3, my darlings.

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/photo-27.jpg

<3 that dog looks a lot like harry, but more bouffant and curly. the slightly dim but proud to be in the car facial expression is identical.

congratulations, estela, on your team's big win!

thank you, lxy, nz was very excited<3

i never cared a fig about rugby until i moved to australia and then i became deeply patriotic.

I dreamed last night estela was coming to Seattle in February to compete in a dance competition and I was so excited!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i choose to believe it was a premonition, not a dream.

aww

<3

i'd rather compete in a talking competition.

guess what, harry was finally allowed out of the playpen on tuesday and he's enjoying wandering around the house again but he'll only eat in there now and every night at 10pm he puts himself to bed in there, he is a ridiculous fluffy fool. right now he's getting his first haircut in weeks, he looked like a dirty old sheep when i dropped him off.

our dog (rip, not that his name was rip but he is dead) used to go in his crate when he was scared or tired, even though that's where he would go for punishment too. dogs are funny!

<3 the first thing harry did when he was free was go and lie under the coffee table, which is smaller than the pen. he is so happy to be free, and his leg is getting stronger and stronger but we still have to try to stop him from cavorting around too much.

Such good news, and such silliness :)

hooray for harry

I hope Harry has been bosthooning his little fluffy heart out.

<3 you know he has. he loved thanksgiving. i think his favourite things were pie crust with whipped cream and not being imprisoned in that baby pen.

estela u should be on facebook

estela deserves better than facebook

but in the absence of ilx?