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Happy Birthday to me

You may be thinking, oh how sad. Libby has to wish herself a happy birthday. But this is not at all the case. Let me start from the beginning.

I came in on Wednesday and much to my surprise, my dear friends Mary and Lauren had put a beautiful bouquet of red and orange roses in my office. How sweet. Another colleague of ours just had a baby on September 4th, and I was sharing with Juliet that I was going to have to take the Sept 4th baby under my wing and prepare her for the psychological impact of having an early September birthday.

My birthday very often fell (as it did this year) on the first day of school. You know how when you were in high school your friends would decorate your locker on your birthday with balloons and confetti and magazine cutouts of Brad Pitt? Well on the first day of school, no one knows where your locker is. This actually starts long before you even have a locker. Even when I only had a shared kindey-garten cubby, all of my peers (I wouldn't dare call them friends...I was pretty awkward up until 6th grade and then some) would get baked goods from parents on their birthday. Even the summer birthdays got a big lumped together birthday baked good acknowledgement. But me? I got lost in the paperwork. Too late for summer, too early to be planned for.

So anyways, all joking aside, I'm not THAT scarred, but it is kind of true. Well after my bouquet of roses my boss got me a nice arrangement of fresh flowers, and then around 2 pm Northway sent me a beuatiful unique arrangement of gerbera daisies (always exciting to have the receptionist call and say you have a delivery...almost like having your birthday read over the PA on the morning announcements). But the fun didn't stop there. Brian sent me a HUGE arrangement (in my lap in the above photo) from Gallo which was so, so sweet. And if you can believe it, my awesome in-laws sent me flowers AND a happy birthday balloon. I felt just like the prom queen :)

Even though I had to work and then go to class and got home at 9:30, it was a great day. I don't usually make a big deal about birthdays, because they usually just feel like any other day. But today was anything but ordinary, because I was surrounded by people who made me feel extraordinarily special. Since Brian is the only one who got to hear my little speech when I got all emotional last night, let me just say that I am the luckiest 25 year old girl in the world. I have a wonderful husband who loves me (who wrote me a beautiful card AND cleaned the entire kitchen yesterday), I have awesome friends and family (who took me out for a delicious crispy fish burger for lunch), and I have 5 bouquets of flowers in my office right now. Life is good.

posted by Libby @ 10:55 AM