Awww sugar snaps yall last Thursday was my birthday! Go
Lasondra it’s ya birthday, did ya party like it was birthday? Ok I had a 50 cent moment. You may be
thinking last Thursday was Valentine’s Day right? You would be right. And so Sherlock,
you have rightly deduced that I was born on Valentine’s Day. Well by now you
are thinking what a lovely day that is to be born, because being born on a
holiday is all the rage. Some people don’t even realize that my birthday on February
14th is the same as Valentine’s Day. Someone once asked me, “Is your
birthday on Valentine’s day every year?” Why yes it is! It just so happens that
my birthday and Valentine’s Day always fall on the 14th of February.
Who woulda thunk it?!
So if you don’t know me well, I turned 26 this year. Every year,
I want to have some big shindig or hit a club in Hollywood in a shiny short
dress like on TV but I never do it. I usually have a nice quiet birthday with
some dinners here and there. As I have gotten older, I have usually spent a
portion of my birthday in reflection. I reflect on the last year, and how to
move forward and make this year of life better. I mean you are only every age
once. So needless to say, every year of life that I am blessed with HAS to be
filled with something fabulous and better and different than the year
before. And that my friends is how I
stay so funky fresh and fun. Oh yes, funky fresh and fun I said. I don’t always
know what it is that is going to keep me at the top of my game, but I make the
biggest plans ever. And of course not all of them come true. But let me tell
you, had I not had big plans last year, I would not have gone to a Clippers
playoff game, or the Espy’s or on a mission trip to Mexico.
So 26, what we gonna do? I have some big plans for us, like
finish my thesis. And if history teaches me anything, it is that there will be
some fantastic surprises waiting for me…and I am waiting for them too. But I
think thesis is the top of my list, because well I just gotta get that over
with.
I am thankful and blessed to see 26 and to have done all the
things I have done and look forward to the things to come. And even though last
Thursday was my birthday, I like to act like every day is my birthday so I will
be accepting gifts all year long. In addition to actual gifts wrapped in pretty
paper, I also accept monetary gifts- checks, dollar bills, money orders, gift
cards, quarters (a girl has to do her laundry ya know), credit cards, bank account
information…
I pray that you celebrate not only your
birthday but every day you are blessed to see, and this is whether you believe
in God or not. Every day you have been given another chance to do something.
And if you can, get out your freak em dress or your suit and tie (Justin Timberlake
anyone?) and get out there. Shake a tail feather and have some fun.
Xoxo,
Lasondra
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