{"id":83,"date":"2003-06-08T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-09T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2003-06-08T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-09T04:58:00","slug":"sarahs-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Sarah&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the last few nights at work creating dozens of origami tulips in preparation for Sarah&#8217;s birthday. I wanted to do something special for her and I didn&#8217;t have any money. After bills, the $15 contribution I gave to Ashley (I gotta hand it to her, she&#8217;s an amazing fundraiser &#8212; 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&#8217;d reserved for Sarah&#8217;s birthday cake and my hair appointment on Monday I didn&#8217;t have any left to spend on decorations. <img alt=\" This is not me, by the way.. I wish! \" src=\"http:\/\/a100.g.akamai.net\/f\/100\/969\/1d\/www.jcrew.com\/images\/section\/square\/58730_KC0533_of_0001.jpg\" width=\"160\" align=\"right\" \/>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&#8217;t burn a hole in your wallet.<br \/>\nKatie helped me decorate Sarah&#8217;s desk after she left on Thursday night. We didn&#8217;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&#8217;s work ID picture. They made a whole bunch of copies and posted it everywhere, including the bathrooms! I made a bunch of &#8220;Happy Birthday, Sarah!!!&#8221; signs so that she would them as she came in to work. If some people didn&#8217;t know Sarah before, they were sure to recognize her after all of the signs and posters.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday20.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday21.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday22.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday23.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday24.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday25.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday01.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday02.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday03.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday04.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday05.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday06.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday07.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday08.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday09.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday10.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday11.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday12.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday13.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday14.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday15.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday16.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday17.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday18.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/oldpics\/sbday19.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the last few nights at work creating dozens of origami tulips in preparation for Sarah&#8217;s birthday. I wanted to do something special for her and I didn&#8217;t have any money. After bills, the $15 contribution I gave to Ashley (I gotta hand it to her, she&#8217;s an amazing fundraiser &#8212; she got nine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}