Today, I turn 31 years old. Or, as I like to say, I celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of my 29th Birthday. I didn’t plan a party this year (I plan my own party every year, because I am VERY PARTICULAR) because of the winter blahs and also because planning a wedding is sucking any desire to plan any event in the near future out of me.

Instead, today I’ll celebrate quietly with a lovely dinner with my boy and then tomorrow we’re hopping the train to Seattle for a fun-filled birthday weekend!

Oh, and news flash? 31 feels the exact same as 30, which coincidentally felt the exact same as 29. So, there you have it.

18 months after a super painful surgery, and 6 months after a pretty freaking horrific course of Lupron treatments, I’m super excited to tell you guys that I am COMPLETELY CYST FREE!

This means, no surgeries for the foreseeable future and also NO MORE LUPRON.

Thank you all for listening to me whine…

xoxoxo

Healthy Uterus Rhi

On Sunday, September 20th, right as the sun was about to disappear, on a park bench overlooking the ocean in Del Mar, California, the love of my life got down on one knee…and struggled a little bit to get a little box out of his pants pocket.

Guess what was inside?

Ladies, we have a wedding to plan!

(more about vacation later…we’re home now, both recovering from stomach bugs and trying to get unburied from laundry, mail, etc.)

• Please note: this is the 3rd time I’ve tried to post to my blog since Friday. The publish button is pretending it’s the delete button. Screw you, WordPress!
• We’re up for the day, getting ready to watch some football, then lay by the pool, then go shopping, then go to Del Mar for dinner.
• As it turns out, we’re REALLY good at vacationing.
• I took a 3 hour nap yesterday after watching the Huskies kill the Trojans (AWESOME), then woke up and walked what must have been 2 miles around Coronado twice looking for a restaurant that served dinner after 9:30 p.m.
• No luck, BUT, I did eat $18 worth of delicious Spanish cheese and had a flight of Cava. SO, ALL GOOD.
• Also, the Ducks won yesterday. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! (Picture me, making the ‘O’ with my hands)
• Right now, our biggest worry is trying to figure out how to get from the Hertz Rental Car drop off to the cruise ship terminal.
• OH: Yesterday, we witnessed a HIT AND RUN in the Hotel Del parking lot. Do not worry, I took down the guys license plate number and left a nice note on the car saying, “I SAW WHO DID THIS! FOR $100 I WILL TELL YOU THEIR LICENSE PLATE #” Just kidding, I wrote their license plate number on a piece of paper and put it on their windshield.
• Okay, with that we’re off to breakfast. And, NOT the $72.50 brunch in the Crown Room at the Del. (even though it is 20% off today which makes it a total bargain).
• Talk to you guys in a week!

So, in hindsight, I should have shared my AWESOME experiences first. I really did have the best time ever at BlogHer this year, and I didn’t mean to leave the not awesome post up for so long, but have you heard? I’m melting.

Photo totally stolen from Angella.

Dinner Thursday Evening with Ali, Angella, Darcey, Slynnro, Kristin, Sizzle, Carrisa, Katherine, Kerri, and Kali. Such a good time.

Photo totally stolen from Sizzle

A trip to H&M with girls who should totally hate me because I “KNEW THE WAY” and took them the longest way possible. The only thing better than buying 2 blouses, a cardigan, a dress and a scarf for only $108 is doing it with great friends.

Skipping out on a party to watch the 16 and Pregnant Reunion and drink Greyhounds with great friends. No photo, but I did wear these jammies.

Oh look!  A photo from my own camera!

Having a great friend to work registration with. It made the nasty ladies not so bad. Also, this, which started out totally not awesome, but ended up awesome in the end: one of the bottles of EOS Shaving Cream in the swag bags exploded on my very lovely and very favorite blouse (pictured). I tweeted about this and ALMOST INSTANTLY, someone from EOS got right back to me saying they’d like to pay for my cleaning. Such awesome customer service. I will always buy their shaving cream from now on.

Stolen from guess who? Angella!

Drinking $10 cocktails in the lobby bar with the girls. Also, Susan and Chris are pretty hilarious and pretty awesome.

Fantastic friends and fantastic food. Also, a fantastic boyfriend who texts me as we’re being seated for dinner to tell me to buy the girls a bottle of wine on him. Also, live tweeting our dinner with such gems as this.

The second annual photo of Kristin and I hiding behind a tree. The first ever photo can be seen here.

Also – seeing the people that I met last year again, meeting tons of new people, shaking it at the MamaPop party, giggling, eating cheeseburgers with a paper bag on my head, shopping at Ann Taylor with a mimosa in hand,  and finally coming home to my own bed and my handsome boy. I can’t wait until next year!