webwabbit is 50

I'm not inclined to do much celebrating on my birthday. It always seemed to be just another day to me, and honestly, this one would have been no different. But that's what family is for, right?

Dinu stopped by in the morning with flowers and a couple cards, then left. PopPop and I spent the day puttering around while Queenee went to a 90th birthday party for Beverly's father.

Dog and FluffyDuf arrived at about 6:30pm and a bit after 7pm, DamCat and Deacon came bearing mass quantities of Chinese food. The girls made their own wonderful cards and H found a beautiful turtleneck sweater that is perfect for me, my favorite chartreuse green! DamCat gave me a lovely green marble rabbit, which now has a place of pride on my computer. Queenee found lots of things for me - several pairs of socks (which are great because it's something I always forget to buy for myself), sweats and pj's (my uniforms), a Munch The Scream t-shirt, ginger, a beautiful wooden box (y'all know how I love boxes), sugar scrub ... well, she went crazy, as usual. And FluffyDuf found a blanket with skulls! How cool is that?

Queenee got me 50 roses; they are so beautiful, we refuse to take them off the table. Queenee also got me my favorite cake, carrot cake, on which H creatively spelled out 50 with the candles (since she was a couple candles short of actually having 50). I failed to blow them all out, but I think that's just as well, since I would have ended up coughing and spitting all over the cake and that's just gross.

The highlight of the evening was Helium Karaoke. C was hysterical, doing her interpretations of Abba and The Band. I have some of it on video and will link to it when I get it edited. She had us in tears, we were laughing so hard. [Edit: here are the videos - I'm comin' out, Fernando, and last, but definitely not least, The Weight.]

We had a great time, and I enjoyed my birthday in spite of myself. Thanks, everyone!