my super sweet 29

Today is my birthday! Despite the fact that I'm a little freaked out by turning 29 today, I still love my birthday. I love the time of year of my birthday, I remember having to shovel snow one year out of our driveway so people could come to my birthday party. It's the day after Valentine's Day, so when I was growing up, I would always think that all of the Valentine's decorations in the store were for me. My mom always made me a heart shaped chocolate cake. I remember thinking how cool it was that my mom could make a cake in the shape of a heart. As I got older, and Valentine's Day was about more than little paper cards passed around at school, it has never mattered that much whether or not I had a Valentine, or if he did or didn't do something special for me that day, because the next day is always my birthday. It's like a pre-birthday celebration.

This Valentine's Day was quite lovely, actually. Cute Tony was, in fact, very cute. I have received flowers from him twice this week. Beautiful purple orchids when I got back from the cruise and a huge bouquet of red tulips for Valentine's Day. We ate dinner at a very adorable Italian restaraunt called Calavino's in Oakhurst, and I couldn't say anything bad about the sauce or the meatballs or the lasagna (although it could never be as good as mine - as an Italian, I always, always am very criticial of Italian restaraunts). We've only known eachother a few months (since Thanksgiving) but the more I know him, the more I like him. He is genuine and thoughtful and funny and creative and interesting and smart. And cute.

So, tonight for my birthday, after I make it through the work day, I am having dinner with a group of friends at my favorite seafood restaraunt, Six Feet Under. I am so happy that so many people are coming and I can't wait to have shrimp tacos and alcoholic blueberry lemonade...