Happy birthday to me
As Robin said, "Everyone should get an ego trip for their birthday." Along with a splendidly relaxing, tasty and fun day that involved foot rubs, pancakes, brownies, friends taking Nadia for most of the morning, a custom-made shirt with knotweed on it (awesome!), and fireworks without having to drive anywhere, a post of mine on Rooflines (the community development/housing/planning/urban issues group blog I joined a couple months ago) got picked up in a very complementary way by another blogger on nationally focused site. Since it was a potentially controversial topic already causing a lot of stir, it was nice to see someone thought I had something to add to the conversation.
I haven't been cross-posting my Rooflines stuff here, but if you're interested, I've been posting about once a week, usually on Thursdays.