Yesterday, I didn't expect much of a birthday. I was working all day, and we're broke, so I thought there'd be a few phone calls and papertigers would get me ice cream for dinner ( Read more... )

... Have a 150th Anniversary celebration at the local Jesuit church ( Read more... )

papertigers, being perhaps the best girlfriend of all time, gave me a major gift: while I was sobbing in the guest room, she went out and bought me Cap'n Crunch and milk. She has treated me so gently all day that I am ashamed of myself for despairing. I am a very lucky woman.

Tomorrow I get to see klaughingbrook's two daughters serve at Mass. It's good to be loved.

There will be no birthday party for me tomorrow. It's my own fault. I can't see anything I have going for me.

I am not this strong.

Yesterday was the Actual Day... my birthday. papertigers gave me the gentlest wakeup ever, covering my face with kisses before heading out the door. I had my favorite cereal (Cap'n Crunch) for breakfast. Then I went to work... where one of my coworkers offered to take me out for coffee or a drink or something in celebration, because she's a very nice ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, I got to go see U2 - concert tickets thanks to my mother, for my birthday. I took klaughingbrook with me ( Read more... )

I got an early birthday gift today. We stopped, on impulse, at a yard sale on Aspen Hill Road. The woman having the yard sale was French and had lived in Kenya for seven years. papertigers bought me a Touareg leather lamp. It is gorgeous and gives off a lovely golden light. I am so excited.

I had an amazing birthday and birthday weekend. I got phone calls from my parents, my maternal grandparents, my godmother, the mother of my godsons (and the boys, one of whom asked if I had a wand, since I'm his godmother), my former piano teacher and her sons, two aunts, two uncles, one cousin not residing at home, and two sisters.

papertigers is very ( Read more... )

papertigers, klaughingbrook, silk1, and I went to Restaurant Nora last night to celebrate my birthday, very belatedly. The tab was picked up by my parents via credit card. I can't begin to tell you how fabulous the food was. It wasn't that everything was perfect; it was that everything was a little more than perfect, including the service. Example? silk1 was mildly disappointed ( Read more... )

Cried my eyes out at J's wedding. It was lovely. I got a birthday cake and seranade at the evening reception. We saw a beehive at the morning reception. I felt very pretty in my new blouse. The evening reception was at the Coyote Point Museum, which features groves of eucalyptus and redwood and a location mere feet from the water. You can see ( Read more... )