And on with the Birthday Countdown

Since my birthday is on Friday, as you can guess I'm getting pretty excited.

With birthdays comes a lot of secrecy. This week at work we moved Chipotle Thursday to a Wednesday and my office mate refused a ride with me to carpool there. I was feeling like maybe everyone thought i was a bad driver or something. But as it turns out my office mate was buying me surprise birthday cheesecake!!

Its kinda funny that leading up to birthday events usually makes the birthday person feel left out.

The best birthday card i've ever gotten was from Julie and Jess at Summer Camp. It reads "to a gouda friend" with a picture of a gouda wheel of cheese, then you open it "in fact there's no one grater" with a picture of a cheese grater. Jess had bought it (which julie made very clear to not take credit for the cheesy joke), then Jess secretly gave it to Julie for her to sign. This whole time, not knowing what was going on, I was starting to get very angry that my two closest friends at camp no longer wanted to hang out with me. As it turns out they were just trying to surprise me with the card. Dont i feel like a jerk.

In my old age i've learned that if anyone suddenly acts like they dont want to be around you, or is suddenly secretive around your birthday week or so dont fuss about it, and just wait for your birthday surprise :)