And then it is official, but damn was it given a wonderful start last night! I haven't had a birthday like that for some time. John, in all his trickery, told me the night before that his 'big plans' had more or less fallen through, adn that instead of the crazy theatre dinner he had planned, we were just going to go out and have a regular dinner wherever I wanted. We left at 4(which I though unusually early) and had dinner at Chilis. He stealily 'forgot ' his phone and went about pretending to find it through texting with mine, adn then we headed back to his apartment. When we got there he let me in to a GIANT bouquet of roses, which Chris had so thoughtfully placed the white one I had recieved earlier adn more than the normal ammoutn of people then are usually present when I am there. Apparently, there were supposed to be a great deal more people there to yell 'surprize!' but people are people, and there was only Erik and Garret and Chris and Heather along with the usual Jarvis to greet me. More people arrived, Chris adn Joel drove up from SD, his cousin Nick and his gal came over after Nick got off work, Robert showed after he got off work and Sarah also arrived after she got off work, fully equipped with angel food cake, strawberries, whipped cream and candels; and then they sang me happy birthday and eventually we all sat down in a room not equipped with enough chairs to watch Talladega Nights. It was so-so awesome! It was really nice to see how many people cared enought to take time out of their busy days to wish me, their friends girlfriend, a happy birthday. I dont even know half of them that well, but they came out anyways. :) Some drove for an hour or more for it.
And next weekend, John is taking em to see the Pirates dinner show for my actual birthday. How excited am I? And I think I'm going to make the crew gals go to breakfast with me that morning too. And the weekend after that I am also going home for a race and am going to have a big family dinner for my birthday too. Apparently Papa has beena sking about having me a fmaily b-day, which is cool, because he never really cared about me before. Now that he is sober howrever, he's been all kinds of interested adn coherent adn talkative. It's a nice change.
So, from a rather terrible and crudy week, was an amazingly fantastic weekend.:) That boy really out does himself....