Dear December, Please be Awesome

Since December is almost here, complete with its chilly afternoons, Ugg boots, and eating cookies in the office, I decided I needed a rest so I took seven days leave off work and all I’ve been doing is experimental cooking and lying on the couch, thinking about my unlucky colleagues at work.

I actually walked into Nakumatt on Saturday to buy ingredients to make cookies at home, but when I started to realize just how much butter, sugar, and secret, fattening awesome stuff goes into them, I walked out empty handed. Instead I'll just buy them pre-made at Paul’s Cookie man’s and pretend I HAD NO IDEA THEY WERE 24 GRAMS OF FAT PER SERVING.

Oh, the holiday and its blind spending bliss is five days away, along with my love for all things Charity...

My Bee Eff Effs

Oprah once quoted, "Lots of people want to ride with you in a Mercedes, but what you need is someone who will take the bus with you when the Mercedes breaks down." Now, if I didn't already love Oprah, this quote alone would make me want to be her best friend. I secretly pretend we're BFFs in real life and if she'd let me come over, I'd braid her hair and her chef would make us a delicious meal. Then we'd watch America’s Got Talent and cry at all the good parts.

Speaking of good parts, my real best friends are made of a million and one good parts. No, amazing parts. They're beautiful people who make my life better and challenge me to think beyond myself and to dream BIG. This past weekend was my 23rd birthday. Oh you thought I wouldn’t write about it? Why, what would you do if you had friends as awesome as I do, hide them in the closet? No. I have to kill you with the thought of imagining you’ll read about them, again.

So DK, my Best Friend, and my Bee Eff Effs (I know, can’t help it) threw me a surprise party. 

So I cried

..and cried, and thanked God for them

We started our maiden voyage with a birthday toast and since I was a waitress for many years; (in my kitchen) I professionally popped the cork with style. Or so I bragged.

 

 

The party was officially on and my friends were there to celebrate with..

Joanne is ultra-talented. We’ve been best friends for ten years and not only is she one of the hardest working and smartest women I know, she has a creative eye for beauty and a passion for photography. She's currently working with PrintsCharming, and does photography over the weekends.

This is Dan and Judy, DK’s little siblings. Judy recently got attached at KMS and she’s getting trained and poised for a new position while, Dan, is in first year of college. We were so excited he cut his homeless-person afro we threw him a party. In our hearts…well, not exactly but you get the point.

Anne and I have known each other since high school and it was always interesting when we joined the same Campus everyone thought we were exceptionally fortunate to be best friends and share a name. She’s hyper, tattooed, very compassionate but sometimes, pretty wicked. 

This one time we bought Eve a passion fruit cake for her birthday so Judy tastes it and goes, “wow, this totally tastes like passion fruit” and Lynn says, “Yeah, well because it’s a passion fruit cake” and Judy goes, “but it really tastes like passion, the fruit, passion fruit” and we all go, “…...” then she still presses on, “guys, I know it’s called passion fruit cake, but really it has the taste of passion fruit, honestly, it’s so unbelievable.”Anne has never let it go and is always making this mean joke that Judy forgot to pay her brain bill.

I met Sophie October last year through Joanne and she recently landed an amazing job in the Banking Industry we’ve been celebrating it every Friday since. She's funny, talented, kind, extremely bright, and we’re without end happy for her to be scaling the heights of success in style.

On my right, is my cousin Rita and on my left is my brother, Vickie. She’s always the light in a party and no matter what gender you are, Rita will call you dude. Vickie is graduating December while he’s currently pursuing Criminology at Egerton University and working part-time at some cool Printing Business he says I wouldn't know about. In brief, what he basically says is I'm uncool. Love him to bits.

DK is my Better Half. No, really. I feel like the luckiest girl being with him and I can't wait to celebrate another year of life.

Risper is my cute cousin and the nicer half of them all...truly. Her life mission is to save the world. And she's doing it. She works with Nazarene Hospital and she speaks to us about giving a hand to mothers getting adorable babies in their arms and her joy in seeing her patients get better. She's an amazing soul and I'm lucky to call her my sister.

Kevin, probably thought he was funny making fun of me...but little did he realize I'd post this photo of him on the web. Boom, redemption.

At this point into the party, I believe I was thinking how lucky I am to be blessed with such amazing people in my life

Having hours to spend with my friends makes me feel exceedingly lucky and I know they'd be willing to take the bus with me any day.