Birthday bliss

Thanks, everyone, for all the birthday wishes! It was, overall, a pleasant day. My in-laws sent me flowers and chocolates. My co-workers gave me an Amazon gift certificate. I had tons of emails, ecards, MySpace and Facebook notes. And Brent brought home some cake from my favorite bakery, Susina. He also gave me some new perfume, which I had asked him to pick out as I'm almost out of my current perfume. He did well by coming home with Calvin Klein's Eternity Summer. He obviously likes the way it smells and although I wasn't familiar with it before, I think he made an awesome choice! It's light and fun. The plan that evening was to pick up my car, which should have arrived by Thursday -- at the LATEST. But when I checked in with the sales guy via text message, he said that the 8 with navi had arrived, but my car wasn't among them. He's "praying that it arrives by Monday." Arrrrrr! The car drama ended up giving me a massive headache, which I tried to sleep off when I got home and waited for Brent's arrival. I took some meds and finally felt up to going out to dinner. My big birthday celebration dinner was scheduled for Friday night (more on that in my next post), so I wanted something low key for Thursday night. We ended up at C&O Trattoria, a nearby Italian restaurant. Brent and I split a salad, then I had some angel hair while he had calamari steak. During his very last bite, he felt something in his food. He pulled out what he thought was an industrial-strength staple! Luckily it didn't stab his cheek or tongue, nor did he chip a tooth, but still! Freaky! We called the waitress over, who then grabbed her manager. He took it with him to the kitchen for a second, then came back and said, "Um, actually, that's not a staple. I've NEVER seen this before, but it's a fish hook!" Apparently the squid had swallowed it, ending up within the flesh itself. Super freaky! He apologized profusely, took Brent's dish off our bill and then offered us free dessert. A wild, wild dinner, lemme tell ya. Oh, but that's nothing compared to my next post... "You better fix this nerd. Otherwise Jack Donaghy is gonna kill me, then he's gonna kill you, then he's gonna fold us up in a pizza and eat us." - Liz Lemon, 30 Rock