Birthday Festival: Part One

Tonight I celebrated my birthday with my family. It's still 12 days away, but since I'm leaving on Tues to go to Tampa, this was the only time to celebrate. Hey, I don't mind a two-week-long birthday festival! Birthday two will be in Tampa with Kate, Lauryn, and Casey. Birthday three is in Ecuador with Rob, Tim, and Pip. For 8 years prior to last year, my birthday fell during exams and I ended up having small, stressed out birthday dinners. So this year I don't really feel bad about celebrating more than once.

My parents cooked lobster and filet mignon, which are my second and third favorite foods (eggs benedict is first on the list), and considering the only seafood I ever cook myself is canned tuna, it was quite a treat.

I also have a new baby for my Apple family, an amazing little green beauty of an ipod nano. I'm in love! This little guy replaces my secondhand Ebay iPod mini circa 2003 that I've had for the last three years. I loved that mini, but the battery has decided to quit on me.

Robbie gave me Stephen Colbert's book I am America (and so can you!). What I've read so far is hilarious, and I'm pretty excited to make it my coffee table book in Melbourne and share Stephen Colbert with the aussies.