When It Rains, It Pours

May was so bloody busy!! Even though I've been running full tilt since I can't remember when, last month felt particularly busy and it doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon. Mom went back to Taiwan for a month (leaving everything to me), I decided to reorganize her kitchen cabinets and drawers and completely underestimated the amount of work required and how backbreaking it would be, I went to Ceroc Canada's Sizzle at the Springs Weekender (SO much fun), said goodbye to a dear, dear "dad", chopped off all my hair for the first time in over 20 years, and, of course, celebrated my 25th birthday (!!). Phew! And those were just the weekend events! Work keeps snowballing and as soon as I think I've caught up with myself and stop to take a breath, it piles up again. I'm still in transition from the upheaval at work, constantly finding new things that I must take over now that C's not here and usually it's a completely unknown matter to me, or I learn about it late and it's crunch time, or I have to learn/research about it from the ground up with limited time on my side. Actually now that I think about it, it's quite often a mix of those factors.

So I turned the big TWO FIVE about 2 weeks ago and it was awesome! Heather and I celebrated our birthdays together with a trip to Las Vegas. Ryan (of course), Georgia (of course) and Julius, Dem (of course) and R (of course) also came and it was a blast (except for the stupid people on the shuttle). The best part of the trip besides shopping at H&M? Em surprised me at dinner!! I'm not struck speechless very often but when Dem left for a phone call and came back with her in tow, I was shocked! She had told me she couldn't make it because of her nephew's birthday so her showing up was totally unexpected and wonderful. Having my 3 best friends with me on my 25th birthday made my birthday complete! Pictures and more pictures.