Yesss I really should be sleeping but aww hell i’ll type this out anyway. My friends threw me a lovely surprise birthday party for my 17th (?) birthday. My birthday is on Xmas, so I usually never get to celebrate with friends on the day itself. One of my friends had the movie Love Actually on DVD and most of us in our group hadn’t seen it. I wanted to borrow it, but they decided we should all just watch it together. So the night or 2 nights before Dec 21st, I was having a AIM conversation w/ the girl who was hosting and she said I need to be at her house at 11 am. Now, this might sound silly, but I do value my time off and my sleeping in days. And Love Actually is not the kind of movie that I would wake up earlier for, so I kept arguing that we should have it later on in the evening or something. My friend kept coming up with the most ridiculous excuses like “no, we need to have it when my mother is home” and when I proposed we have it at my house she said she can’t leave her 14 year old sister home alone because she tries to burn the house down. All of these excuses resulted in me thinking that the pre-vacation stress had finally gotten to her.
Finally I said that I’ll just watch the movie later on and then she turned it into a chat room conversation with other friends arguing with me. I know I was just being stubborn, but other than that I had no clue what was going on. Finally I agreed, and my best friend said she can pick me up and we can go to other girl’s house together. I went in, was genuinely surprised when everyone jumped out and screamed in unison. They had ordered a big cake (I love my cake) and had all chipped in either to buy or cook food/snacks and had decorated the house. We watched a bunch of movies and then went out for the latter half of the day. The reason it needed to be at 11 am was because one of the guests had work @ 1 pm so she wanted to be there for at least part of the party. Oh and they also chipped in and bought me a Chocolate Fondue Fountain as a gift. YUM!
Definitely one of the best birthdays ever. It was great not having to plan anything for once. Now of course, my friends won’t let me forget that I made it so hard for them to host my own birthday party. And I can’t believe I almost didn’t go haha. I have some pretty amazing friends <3
They were worried that I must be suspicious because I am typically more observant than this, but I really had no idea
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I have yet to throw a successful birthday party on my own. I was part of one for another friend, but due to time constraints, I couldn’t take be responsible for much :(. I enjoy such stuff though, so I am sure I’ll throw one soon enough.