birthday thankfulls

Oh this has been the best birthday week ever.
Thanks to:
1) Rore and Ben for dancing and feeding me popcorn and dino buddies and 'insinuating fights' and singing me happy birthday in the bathroom with a sloppy red velvet strawberried cake and huggin me when I started crying and for eating birthday cake with me at 2am, while watching eric snore on the floor.
2) that strawberries are in season and jacaranda's are blooming.
3) Eric for driving his volvo down for dinner and helping me choose 25 songs for the jukebox, and for keeping me company on the drive to LA, and for getting on my nerves then making up, just like a brother, and for making me laugh with his dance off routines, his keen eye for bird watching and introducing me to Zankou chicken.
4) Mary and Veronica for Belly Up, for dancing, for screaming like crazy girls when the singer of the Virgens took off his jacket and strutted around stage with his hands on his hips.
5) Mary and Michelle for buying me more drinks, for looking out, for cooking dinner with me and letting me clean their kitchen the next morning, for making me cake number three, for taking me to the dog park with them, for tagging along to thrift stores, for coming to my art show, for being two of the funniest women I know.
6)All the amazing women I work with who surprised me with a wonderful birthday lunch.
7) to meg for taking herself for a walk at 1am, then sneaking back into the house while I slept and waking me up by kissing my face. she thinks she's a dog!
This week was crazy and amazing and filled with a ton of firsts, like my first time teaching with a hangover, which was hilarious, I wish it was videotaped.