Happy Birthday, HR!

I am sooooo calling her "Human Resources" from now on!

Yay!  Another birthday... this week... about 9 months after Valentine's Day.

That's not awkward at all.

Ha! (Awkward chortle.)

Happy Birthday, Human Resources!

Congratulations, you're almost as old as me.

So, what should I share about Human Resources...  hmm.  She makes AMAZING cakes!  I saw these and thought of her.  And her cakes are DELICIOUS, too!

Human Resources also has an amazing voice, she sings beautifully.

We both love Gilmore Girls!  And Jane Austen!  And super sappy chick flicks!  And coffee!  And Chicago!

Oooh!  Okay, so HR and I attended high school together, she was a year or two behind me in school but we were friends and it was cool.  But, then I went off to college in Minnesota and we only saw each other when I was home for breaks (this is life - it happens - no regrets).

Anyway, a couple years later she went to college in OHIO! (For those who are geography-challenged.  We went to high school together in Wisconsin.  I went northwest to Minnesota for college and she went southeast to Ohio.  We couldn't have been farther apart unless we had actually - never mind.)

So, after a year or two in Ohio, HR transferred to a school in Chicago.  During her junior year, I started grad school in Wheaton (a suburb of Chicago).  But, we might as well have been in Minnesota and Ohio for as much as we saw each other.

But, one evening, my grad school friends and I took the train into the city to attend the free opera.  As we're walking into Millennium Park, who do I bump into but HR!  So WEIRD!  Hundreds of THOUSANDS of people in the city of Chicago.  And two high school friends from Wisconsin bump into each other. We hung out and got dinner and listened to opera.  It was sweet.

It was also surreal.

Anyway, since then we have watched a lot of movies, eaten a lot of delicious food, planned a few awesome parties, drunk a lot of coffee, and even did the fastest road trip ever to Tennessee for our friend KB's wedding.

We have a good time and I'm really glad she's in my life.

Happy Birthday, HR! [Human Resources - haha! I laugh every time!]

Love!