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Hey Cybernista's.  I am so frustrated right now because I just lost my entire blog post and I am starting over from scratch.  I hope I can remember it all.  I said Got Dayum!  So anyways, what's crackin?  My birthday is November 19th, Monday.  I will be 30 and I can't believe it.  Lord willing, I will survive my 20s and do the dayum thing in my 30s.  As you see in the invite above (that your's truly created, u like?) I am trying to pull together friends to meet up with me and celebrate my milestone birthday over good drinks, good company, and I'm just trying to have a cool time and kick it and have fun.   I haven't ironed out the details regarding what venue I want to kick it at.  My friends and I have been brainstorming.  Should it be the Central West End?  Maybe we should roll Downtown.  Or who knows, there is nothing like your neighborhood juke joint.  Have you been to a banging birthday celebration.  Where was it.  What did you do.  Give me ideas.

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My daughter and I went to the movies last Sunday to see Jerry Seinfeld's and Renee Zellweggers' Bee Movie.  It was really cute.  It was about a unique Bee, Berry, who decided he didn't want to spend the rest of his life working like a busy bee, making honey until he died.  So he ventured out into the real world and discovered that humans are actually stealing their honey and making a profit without kicking them down a dime. 
So he goes to court to sue humans.  There is also a really good lesson regarding the bee shortage, pollination, and what happens when all bees are gone (basically we will all eventually die.)  But check this out, I guess life imitate art (or vice versa) b/c a company named Beeceuticals, which makes cosmetics and skin care products made of organic honey, is suing Dreamworks.  In the Bee Movie, the main message was "give bees a chance" well apparently this is the trademarked slogan for Beeceuticals.  The owner of the company is Howard Stern's cousin and the phrase has been used in conjunction with the Beeceuitcal products on Stern's satellite radio show hundreds of times.  So here we go with the real legal battle.  Humans are now suing the BEE [movie] for stealing their stuff and making a profit, while in the movie the Bee was suing the human.  Wierd, I know???

Also during our movie trip I had to teach my daughter how to sneak snacks into the theatre so you don't have to spend 30 bucks at the concession stand.  We went to the dollar tree and got 40 cent canned sodas, fruit snacks, pretzels, and candy.  I had my big purse and luckily she is a little fashionista and likes to keep a purse on her arm too (yes, she's 6-yrs old, I know).

Well, I made her put her own snacks in her purse.  WHAT?  If we got caught, I wasn't going to be the only person going down.  So I decided to do a trial run b/c you know some workers have gotten smart.  For instance, it is almost impossible to get free cake at a restaurant any more based on the lie that it is your kid's birthday.  When you tell them it's your kid's b-day they have no problem ignoring you and looking your kid in the eye and asking them if today is actually their birthday (you know the hero type, like it's coming out of their pocket...teeheehee). 

So I role played with my baby before we got to the ticket guy.  I was like, "You aren't going to get any popcorn or snacks today, little girl?" and she was like "No, I have snacks in my purse."  WRONG ANSWER.  So I asked her again more slowly and winked my eye knowingly this time.  And her eyes got big and she was like,"Ooooh noooo, I won't be having any snacks today, thank you."  That girl learns quick.

All in all it was a really goofy experience and we both were giggling and laughing.  She always says she wishes I was 6 because she knows we would have been really good friends (umm, yeah, she is me when I was six, she just doesn't know it.)

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Holla at your girl!  It's my birthday.

Smooches.