Birthweek is the new Birthday.

To most of you, the idea of birthweek may be a tad selfish and or ridiculous. But to me, the idea that we only get one day a year to celebrate ourselves and our life is just as ridiculous. So I take one week out of the year around my birthday to give myself things, do things and experience things I love, think I will love or have loved doing and all the wonderful sensations I get to experience just because I was born . Last year's birthweek included a half marathon, 21 km for my 21st birthday, an expensive coffee with my own latte art heart drawn in it, recovery yoga, a new dress and a thursden soirée with my friends. This year's celebration was a tad more exuberant due to being in a more exuberant place. For example, this year's birthweek included but was not limited to: a new and wonderfully seductive perfume, which I never buy and never would think to buy any other week of the year. I have never bought perfume and it is a luxurious and also one of my favorite indulgences. I can never pass up the opportunity to spray a little bit of perfume on! Another item was stockings, black ones with a ton of flirtacious character. This birthweek also included two trips- one in the near future- to Stockholm where I will be visiting my friend Sarah and have the luxury of re living life in Grande Prairie but also where I will get to experience the wonders that are Stockholm. Paris was me second trip concluding birthweek. And it was absolutely wonderful! Two of my closest friends made the trip with me and tromped all the way around Paris's tourist circuit. This was the first time I had actually gone into the Louvre despite actually being outside of the Louvre more times than I have fingers. It also entailed a delicious lunch on the Champs Elysees as well as visiting l'Arc de Triomphe, a monument dedicated to soldiers lost in the war only a few days after Rememberance Day. All in all, I got to do everything I wanted for one week and it was perfect. I had coffee with friends, went for long runs, cooked dinners and hosted parties, walked in parks spent extra time helping out my teachers. Anything that made me feel good, I did. This is the one week where I get to stop and enjoy everything about my life and think about how to make it better and if that's ridiculous, so is life.