Sarah’s Birthday
Posted on June 8, 2003 by Ching under Life.
I’ve spent the last few nights at work creating dozens of origami tulips in preparation for Sarah’s birthday. I wanted to do something special for her and I didn’t have any money. After bills, the $15 contribution I gave to Ashley (I gotta hand it to her, she’s an amazing fundraiser — she got nine people to go in on it and collected $110 altogether) toward an Express giftcard (our group gift to Sarah), a new string bikini (the placed bandana print in fresco) from J.Crew, the money that I’d reserved for Sarah’s birthday cake and my hair appointment on Monday I didn’t have any left to spend on decorations. 
Brian got me these streamers but I knew I needed something more. So I made a whole bunch of tulips. I had everyone write birthday greetings to Sarah on the excess paper so we could decorate her walls with them. The end result? Decorations that don’t burn a hole in your wallet.
Katie helped me decorate Sarah’s desk after she left on Thursday night. We didn’t have a lot of time so instead of actually decorating, it was more like we toilet-papered her whole cubicle. I was afraid that she would get mad because it was extremely messy after we were done. Katie, Joni and Wade had this great idea of printing and enlarging Sarah’s work ID picture. They made a whole bunch of copies and posted it everywhere, including the bathrooms! I made a bunch of “Happy Birthday, Sarah!!!” signs so that she would them as she came in to work. If some people didn’t know Sarah before, they were sure to recognize her after all of the signs and posters.
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