long live miss meesh.

[you can't buy cuteness like that.]

 [massaman curry at thai mango birthday lunch that daddy took me to.]

 [c'est mon anniversaire!]

 [too bad the only thing i liked on this plate were the grapes. also, too bad i still ate everything else.]

 [meeeeat. imagine this times 213 and thats what i ate. you think i'm kidding, ask my friends.]

 [raspberry lemonade concoction.]

 [you bet i brought it.]

 [so happy onnie was in town! i've missed this little otterstein so dang much. nobody laughs with me like she does!]

 [brinn and moi.]

 [me and chels! going strong on 13 years of friendship.]

 [monkey in the middle.]

 [matching bestie watches.]

 [cutest little tykes drawing me pictures on my birthday. oh, i could kiss them all!]

 [making baskin robbins my b.]

 [strawberry doughnut. that whipped cream was a little too much for me. always go for plain glazed, michelle.]

 [making my birthday wish...that everyone was trying to guess at the same time.]

[would've been just fine just eating all the frosting. oh coconut, how you get me every time.]

last friday was my 21st birthday.

and not that my birthdays are always super noteworthy days in my book,

this one was just exceptionally full of awesomeness.

meesh style.

let it be known that i spent the whole day milking that it was the day of my birth 21 years ago by always claiming shotgun, rounding up all the birthday coupons i had accrued online, crediting every positive thing like green arrows to be a birthday miracle, and cat calling at all the hot guys that were running as we drove past them.

apparently birthdays bring out the wacko in me.

whoops?

anyways,

the day started off with a recent favorite:

biking at the gym. with my bff chelsea. as we watched twilight.

let's just say i counted jacob's abs as my first birthday present.

then we rushed home, changed into our swimsuits, and laid by the pool for an hour with court and brinn.

another summer favorite of mine [especially when free cookies are involved, but what else can you expect?].

then, le piece de resistance.

tucano's was so kind to send me a free birthday meal card in the mail [okay fine, i personally requested it online. so sue me] that i was hankering to take advantage of.

ohhhh, that i did.

we met up with ashley, caz, onnie, and matt to feast on some unlimited meats.

note: let me just add that the birthday gods were so in my favor because we were so late to our reservation and the place was packed and we almost didn't get in in time for the lunch deal but they had saved our reservation for us.

 OH YEAH TOTAL SCORE MADE MY ENTIRE DAY.

i'm serious. i take my free meat meals very seriously.

we stayed and ate for hours. 

okay, everyone was basically done after an hour and i kept eating filet mignon and grilled parmesan vegetables.

it's not my fault they can't keep up with the big dogs!

i had had the craving to watch lion king all week [don't ask me why, you know i have no explanation], so that's what we did.

and then drove to baskin robbins and krispy kremes for a free ice cream cone and birthday doughnut.

bliss bliss bliss.

and the night ended by eating homemade-by-brinn german chocolate cake with everyone.

and by everyone, i mean basically me because everyone ate applesauce instead.

don't ask me where i find these wacko friends.

i just wanted to say for journal purposes how grateful i am for everyone in my life right now.

i truly do feel so blessed to have friends that i can be completely myself around and get hardly any flack for it.

i'm grateful for my awesome huge family that truly does teach me to be a better person, and helps me be more in tune with myself.

they've given me a strong personal sense of direction.

it was honestly a little hard for me this year to reflect back on my birthday last year because in my eyes, i had everything then and seem to be falling for anything now.

but the beauty of it all is that your life is truly what you make of it, and i'm going to keep moving forward.

to another year of learning from silly mistakes, eating too much, and becoming more of who i want to be.