Retarded with Joy

SO it's my birthday! And I've gone completely retarded with joy. And when I say retarded, I mean really frickin' retarded. I'm so excited I could barf. Just a little. I'm so old! But it's awesome! And the other day at work there was cake and one of the kitchen guys asked me how old I was turning and I told him and he thought I was lying (or maybe he was lying about thinking I was lying just to make me happy but whatever, I'll take it!) and it was this whole long, drawn out thing about how I couldn't possibly be 31 and there was yummy cake munching (he was conversing and I was nodding my head and mumbling and gesturing with my fork while stuffing giant forkfuls of black forest cake into my face) and really it was just one of those perfect magical moments of rightness. And there was a sparkler. Sweet sparkler action. It burned my fingers because even though I am familiar with the concept of hot metal searing flesh being a bad thing I still feel compelled to touch the sparkler. Most likely because it's sparkly. Much the way I used to always try to pet bees because they were fuzzy and then they would sting me and I would cry the cry of the morally outraged. I'm a dork. I blame the extreme birthday retardation. And the disco. And then yesterday after work I went for some frothy lemony birthday bevvies at earls (only 2 because I had to drive home) and it was great. Our waiter was fun and had a super cute faux hawk which is always good. And there were prezzies! It's true. I got a devil girl bobble head and a book about how boys suck and I should throw rocks at them and some flowers and cards and a crown that said birthday slut on it. Who knew my work friends knew me so well?! :-) Yay! And then I came home and went out for yummy chinese dinner with the Senor and then there was beer and free pool. And a little prezzie from the Senors momma. The Momma Senora. Yay again! Did I mention I love birthdays? Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to meeeeeeeeeeeeeee-eeeeeeeee! Happy Birthday to me!