I'm That Much Closer to Death, But It Was Fun

You read it right. It's my birthday. I would usually make an attempt to not address it in writing, but today was kind of special. You see, the girl threw me my first ever surprise party. It was awesome. She also got me Wii Fit, tickets to see DC United, and tried to get me racing lessons, though that's still in planning. She knows me so unbelievably well. She's the bestest.

The surprise party rocked. She asked me where I wanted to go, and I had no preference, so I proceeded to list every place I could think of. I missed this one. You see, I never think of Japanese food because the girl doesn't do sushi. I know you can get other things, but we usually equate japanese and sushi (despite me having been there and not having had much sushi). So, we went to a hibachi place, which is like Japanese-ish. The irony is that I was talking with Karina today, and stated that we pretty much ate exactly the same stuff except for sushi. She must have been ROTFL (I feel dirty having said that). Kohnkes, Sandrew, and Amanda came to the party.

We then proceeded back to the house, had ice cream cake from the ice cream store, told lots of dirty jokes, and watched some Jonathan Coulton videos. I feel fantastic.

I usually also try not to make enumerative posts, but I really wanted to write this all down, and I'm not feeling excessively wordsmithy today. It might be the excessive sugar, or the multi-tasking.

There's a little more, but that's for me to know :-)

Originally, I was scared of this birthday. I've been reflective of late. In seeing this particular milestone approach, I have had trouble with the positive. I did not think at any point in my life that, by the time I was 29, I would have had arthritis, depression, and lost a child. Nobody expects things like this. My childhood feelings of invulnerability are gone. I've been scared of this one in particular. I can't imagine how hard next year will be.

I'm lucky, though, to have such great friends; both those who could make it, and those who couldn't, but I know were thinking of me. Thank you everybody. You've helped take a day I've lived in fear of and turn it into one of the more positively memorable days I've had in quite a while.