celebrating life: before, now, after

First and foremost, it's MARCH!!! Where has the time gone???

Second, Happy Birthday Chopin!!! He'd be 200 today. In celebrating that, I've been listening to his music of course. Even as I type, I've been sitting in Newcomb Lounge listening to this guy play countless pieces of Chopin's genius. OOOOhhhh, sooo goood!

To add to that goodness, yesterday was unexpected goodness. Duke was playing here last night and it would be the last home game I could attend as a student (question mark?). So I met up with JW to watch this prelude to MARCH MADNESS!

This game was painful to watch. True, Duke is the no. 1 seed in the ACC this season, but this was ridiculous. At one point there was almost a 30 point lead. The crowd cringed at every missed shot. Verdict...67-49. We didn't even break 50 points.

Anyways, afterward JW asked if I could help move her stuff from CM's place so she could go home. No problem, I'll do it and head to this group project thing later at 10pm. I drove over there, go up the stairs, and...SURPRISE! I was very confused at that moment. Why are CCF folks here?

I cannot applaud nor give enough props to the ladies that planned this. So apparently this was my surprise bday party. 1 month early?!? Usually I get the most joy surprising people on their bdays, but this one was GOOD. We celebrated for a while but I had to dip out, I was already running late for this meeting.

As soon as I got to my car, I got a call from the group project folks. We meetin' tomorrow? Cool. I went back and planned to celebrate some more, but not without some of my own tricks waiting for them.

Knocking. Didn't DC just leave? SURPRISE! I think I made 5 people jump back. This was the cherry to my sundae. hehehe.

To make a long story short, THANKS/APPLAUSE/KUDOS to all the ladies that planned/schemed and people that showed up for the pre-bday festivities. I am truly and very wonderfully blessed and grateful to know such a bunch.