I know I like food... but seriously?

Mere weeks after I claimed that I would start my first diet , I had my 22nd birthday.

Now, I know I like food, and everyone else knows this, but my birthday presents this year were a little over the top (to say the least). Let's recount all that I received on April 25th.

I wake up at 6:30 am to find what appears to be a chocolate cake. My oh my that frosting looks thick... just a quick taste of it... oh my god it's a NUTELLA Cake!!! Looks like the work of Rachelle Hobson. Only later do I find out that it was actually my roommate, Ben Vermillion, who made the cake. Thanks Ben!

Courtesy of Benjamin Vermillion

Alright, time to head to work. And what's this on the front table? Cinnamon Rolls? A Grad Student in my lab had his wife make me these the morning of my birthday. They were, in fact, delicious.

Thanks to Jim Davis (and his wife, Michelle Davis) for preparing hand made cinnamon rolls

But the day is far from over. I told my co-lab tech (Julia Kern) to NOT MAKE ME A CAKE ON MY BIRTHDAY. I figured I'd have cinnamon rolls and maybe something else coming, but what did she do? Make a Funfetti Cake? Fine. I'll eat that, too.

Funfetti, prepared by Julia Kern.

 Alright. FINALLY escaped the workplace at 7:00 pm. Time to get away from that gooey goodness that was funfetti and cinnamon rolls. Only to go to Frozen Yogurt with Dan Mahoney, Ali Davis and Ben Vermillion.

Ali gave me a Chocolate Bunny, while Dan provided gluten free brownies (pictured left) and paid for my yogurt (front and center), while reminding me of one of my favorite players on the volleyball team. Ben has already provided an entire cake at this point.

Yogurt and Brownies courtesy of DJ FLAVA, Bunny from Ali Davis.

Oh god. Make these sweets end. During yogurt, I received a phone call from a friend, Lauren Hawkins. Turns out she's at my apartment waiting to give me something. Time to head home....

Once home from yogurt, I notice it's not just Lauren there, but also her roommates; Carrie Frickman and Hannah Maurer... with a bag of groceries. WHAT IS GOING ON?

Lauren presents a tray (with oven mitts still on, this baby is fresh out of the oven). Turns out it's BANANA BREAD/NUTELLA CRUMBLE. HOLLLYYYYY FUCK. This is, by far, the tastiest of all the gifts.

Banana Bread swirled with Nutella/crumble on le top. L Hawk coming through.

 But let us not forget that both Carrie and Hannah work in a high-end Cafe, bringing an individual cake, a loaf of bread, AND 3 or 4 pastries.

Individual cake

Bread and pastries (pastries in the bag behind the bread).

FINALLY. it's 9:30 p.m. and the day is over. All gifts came in food form, and my diet was temporarily obliterated. If anyone is reading this blog, please come help and eat some of this. I am drowning in a sea of sugar and flour. Have as much or as little of anything you'd like. Except for the Banana/nutella bread. You stay the fuck away from that.

2 days later, Jason Thomas bought a Subway Cookie for me. Bonus points for him.