You say it’s my January 17, 2008

Birfday! Yesterday, actually. Some of you have emailed/commented and asked what we did.

We celebrated like nobody’s business. Actually, celebration started on New Year’s Day, because that’s when Husband gave me my gift. So here’s Anja and myself…and after I opened it (a new CD player, since the last one I bought was in 1994) Anja played in the box. It’s great. In fact, we’re listening to Christmas music (I know, I know…but I’m one of those people that listens whenever I feel like it) on it right now.

Yesterday I got emails and phone calls from loved ones—that always puts me a celebratory mood. I didn’t even fall into the “woe is me—I’m a year older and what have I accomplished” funk that I usually end up in by day’s end. Yay!

Husband arrived home with a bouquet of flowers, which, upon taking out of its wrap, wasn’t as glorious as he had hoped. I loved them anyway. He’s so sweet. We picked up some food using a free birthday coupon from Noodles & Co. (Japanese Pan—yay!). He made me a cake FROM SCRATCH. PW’s best chocolate sheet cake ever, to be specific. He only asked me about 43 questions instead of his usual 143, so I think her step-by-step pictures must have helped. But he kept running back and forth, back and forth from the kitchen to his computer room—it was pretty funny.

Then he and Anja sang to me (the delightfulness!), and between the two of us, we devoured about one fourth of the cake. And…(some of Husband’s friends might read this, so I don’t want to say anything too incriminating)…he watched a show with me. One he would never normally watch. Heh heh. What a guy! I told him I would do my best to have 96% of the cake devoured by the time he gets home today.