Everyone was such a dear to me for my birthday, thank you all for your well-wishes and facebook presents and everything else. :)

Sunday, Mom and Grandma came down for the afternoon. Mom bought me real pearls! which are lovely, and Grandma gave me the most fantastic little sparkley penguin pin. And apparently I have more presents floating around in the mail delivery system. :) They took me out for lunch, where we had our first brush with a clueless waitress at Bob Evans (usually the service there is wonderful), but we just took it with amusement and the wrong pie she brought us to take home wound up tasting fantastic anyway.

My apartment, unfortunately, was a disaster - I'd meant to clean that morning, and got up early to do so, but.. then I had a dizzy spell. I've had them a lot this past week and it's getting really annoying. It's like full-blown wooooo the floor is tilting! sort of dizziness, but it only lasts a minute or two and then I'm fine (if a little nauseous). I have no idea. But on hearing this and seeing the stack of dishes I hadn't gotten to (if you happen to glance at my work schedule on facebook, you'll see why this sort of thing piles up), they repeatedly ordered me to sit down and rest and let them handle the kitchen. They did my dishes, and cleaned my stovetop, and cleaned my table, and it was far too good of them to do. I feel so much happier and relaxed around here now that it's a little cleaner, and I don't have to think about doing dishes every spare minute I get.

Yesterday, Tom and I both worked through the day, so I had a nice leisurely breakfast at Tim Horton's (splurging on strawberry cream cheese for my bagel, woo!), and, as usual, Jim (one of the boss's brothers, who comes in a few hours every day to help in back with framing) came in for coffee just before work, and gave me a ride over to the store.

Not that I really needed it for once - it basically hit 60 degrees here yesterday.

I don't even know.

So we were all exclaiming over the ridiculousness of the weather, and I commented how odd it was, that 90% of the time I get blizzards for my birthday - at which point Ann asked in surprise if that was today already, and I said yes. So everybody was wishing me happy birthday. About fifteen minutes later, I was putting some boxes away in back, and as I went by the side door, Bruce came in. Carrying a cake. He promptly yelled at me for ruining the surprise. *G* (Not that it was much of one anyway, one way or another everyone gets a cake for their birthday at the Paper Factory, as soon as the birthday is discovered. :)

Someone dug out the trick candles, and they sang happy birthday as cheerfully obnoxious as they could manage. I blew out the candles, they came back, I blew them out again..and they came back. Bruce tried to snuff one out with his fingers - as it was coming back. Fortunately Nancy decided to be intelligent about it and get a cup of water to douse them, though even still Bruce tossed one toward the cup and very nearly missed - as its flames were returning.

A few minutes later, when everyone was finishing up and slowly heading back to work, Flyer picked up the cake and headed toward the office with it. Now no-one actually saw quite what happened, but I heard Flyer let out a loud yelp, and turned just in time to see my birthday cake falling through the air.

And somehow, miraculously, land right side up.

But still getting frosting all over Nancy's back, Flyer's arm and leg, and somewhere along the way knocking a cup of coffee all over the floor.

...me, I figured it was only appropriate, really, given that it was my birthday cake. ^^; hee.

To be continued! Tom and I are going outside for a walk, it's lovely out and we're not feeling so hot and could use the fresh air.