laugh.dance.janet: Saying goodbye to a very good year and welcoming yet another~

As the new year approaches, I turn over a new chapter of my life. And I literally feel like I shed old skin because my birthday falls near the end of the year. As a child, I didn't like my birthday because it fell right in the middle of the holidays, but I learned to cope with it. Now, holidays, especially New Year's Day, mean a lot more to me because I really feel like I am starting a new chapter of my life.

Christmas is hands down my FAVORITE holiday of all time, but New Years comes in really close. I love making resolutions because they give me the motivation to live my life better. My resolutions (and I think for the most part, everyone's resolutions) are usually the same: somehow, someway we want to be better people. This year, I will try my best to stop being such a lazy girl, which will be extremely hard as I do consider it to be one of my many talents. =P

This Christmas season was busy for me, though busy in a good sense. I had a couple Christmas parties to attend (I won a wine that was made by the Director of Biochemistry of USC!), a thesis to write, AND it was my birthday!

For my birthday, my sister was so cool. We went to go eat at Cafe Santorini, which in my opinion has THE BEST GREEK FOOD EVER PERIOD! As a warning though, their food is so so so salty. I was chugging down water like a camel! Then we went on a shopping spree, and she bought me so many cool things.

My sister is so cool because she does so many good things for me. I'm really blessed to have her as a sister. But I do a lot of good things for her too, so I guess we even out! =P

*From the top left to right: strawberry, peppermint, coffee, strawberry lemon, mint, i don't remember, red velvet, red velvet, coconut, dulce de leche, red velvet, red velvet.

For my birthday, instead of getting a cake, I got a bunch of tiny cupcakes (dozen). Which I thought was really cool and new and these cupcakes were absolutely so so good! And I got them in different flavors so we could all try out different stuff. We got these at Dots...good stuff!