Birthday Review and True Blood Finale (SPOLIER ALERT)

My 33 birthday has come and gone.  I think 33 means I'm officially in my mid-thirties?  Oh that doesn't sound great.  We will say that 34 begins mid-thirties.  My mom took A, L, and I out for dinner on Wednesday at PF Changs....yum!  We went on Wed. because that was the day A had off.  A and his parents got me an amazing new Nikon Coolpix AW100. 

It's a waterproof and shockproof camera.  I have a Fuji waterproof camera, but man is it a piece of crap.  Aaron got it for me two birthdays ago.  Originally, I had a apple green one (LOVE the color) and I took a ton of pics with it and it was always with me when we went swimming.  It didn't take great pictures out of the water, so I stuck to my hand big Panasonic camera.  Not even a year after getting it, it got watered logged real bad so we sent it in.  It was still under warranty.  Probably 6-8 months later, I FINALLY got a new camera.  It is navy.  Anyway, took it to Hilton Head with me this year and all of a sudden a few of the pixels blacked out.  Now there's a big blog of black in the middle of the screen (thankfully it didn't effect the quality of the pictures).  This new Nikon is really sweet!  It is actually 4 mega pixels greater than my big camera!  The best part is that it takes really nice pictures out of the water, now I can just carry one camera rather than two!  I love it!  Can't wait to go swimming to try it out underwater! 

Whoa....I completely digressed.  Anyhow...my birthday was really nice.  A really amazing friend of mine brought me some beautiful dahlias from her garden to me at work and gave me a gift card for my absolute favorite store!  I was so excited.  The girls at work got me a butterscotch cream pie...yum!  I actually decided I wanted to cook my own dinner (I have a bunch of veggies that I am trying to use up!)  My mom and one of our family friends came over for dinner and then we went to shopping to use my gift certificate!  On Saturday, my dad and his girlfriend came over for dinner and looked at pics from Hilton Head and played with Linc.  Overall, it was a great birthday!

So you are probably wondering why I lumped my birthday and True Blood into one post.  As you all probably know, True Blood is one of my favorite shows and I never get tired of swooning over Alexander Skarsgard (who by the way celebrated his birthday a day after mine!!)  I like to think that the awesome True Blood finale was my (and Alexander's) birthday gift!  This season was a little shaky in my opinion.  I know it's a common complaint with the show, but it never bothered me too much till this season....there are just way too many little plots to follow.  This year I have to say I completely didn't understand the need for the whole Terry plot with the Ifrit  .  Also, I'm glad to see that Lafayette is back to his normal fabulous self, I don't really know that I get the whole seeing Jesus with his lips sewn together tangent.  I would have REALLY liked to see Christopher Meloni's character stay alive a lot longer (and had some steamy scenes....come on!)  Some of the story lines were really slow.  But ultimately, I think they pulled it together fairly well at the end.  I love the idea as Eric as a hero (duh....I love anything Eric).  Him telling Noah that she had to be nice to Pam and Tara because they are family was awesome!  I love the idea of Luna shifting into Reverend Newlin, great twist!  The orgasmic fairy birth was too funny and Bill turning into Billith was the ultimate crazy!  LOVE!  But sometimes, it's the little things that I appreciate the most about True Blood, such as the picture of Russell and Steve Newlin holding Emma in puppy form in Steve's bedroom.  Awesome!  This episode was the perfect mix of funny, scary and gross (best gross moment was Sam, as a fly, flew into Roslyn's mouth and shifting back to human causing her to burst into a bloody mess of goo!)  Gotta give it to those writers, I will be on the edge of my seat waiting for summer and the next season of True Blood!