Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.

Thank you so much for all the birthday love yesterday! The texts, twitters, posts, v-gifts, cards, and emails absolutely made my day! And all of you absolutely MAKE MY LIFE! Seriously, I am blessed beyond measure with the most amazing friends and I am grateful every day that you're in my life.

My birthday was pretty damn awesome. First there was the weekend of birthday shenanigans with my L.A. girls, which was all kinds of fabulous. Then last weekend hewet_ka_ptah came up on Saturday for a day of mojitos and shopping. She managed to get me hooked on Drop Dead Diva and we had a great time doing some long overdue catching up and hanging out! Then on Tuesday night, annkiri made a layover at my place on her way back home and any time spent in her lovely company is a good time!

Yesterday I came in to work late, so that I could squeeze in a few more hours with Becca. When I finally did get to the office, there were beautiful flowers waiting for me on my desk. They are making my office smell so good! The staff bought me a carrot cake, which we delved into at lunch. After work, my family took me out to dinner to my favorite Mexican restaurant. There were, unsurprisingly I'm sure, many margaritas involved in the birthday celebrations! Rianna was super excited to give me the birthday card she picked out for me. It played the chicken dance song when you opened it up, so Rianna and Rhyan spent the evening dancing around to my birthday card! It was hilarious! My brother and sister-in-law obviously know me well, because their birthday presents to me were a bottle of Patron tequila and Sprinkles cupcakes! *laughs* They just needed to have it delivered by a hot stripper and it would have been all of my favorite things in one awesome gift!!! My mom also knows me well, as she got me the perfume I've been wanting for forever and not one, but FOUR gorgeous bags! (I've got a ridiculous thing for purses!) I had a difficult time deciding which one to use this morning! But it's a problem I like having. :)

And while not technically birthday related, highdreams made me an amazing Adam header and saved me from me technical ineptitude by customizing my layout for me! Check it! moonmelody!!! I love it muchly!!!

Speaking of Adam and all my birthday-related awesomeness, this weekend _lisalisa_ and I go to the Kansas City show, which is definitely my birthday gift to me. I am so excited I can barely contain myself!!!

So, yes, my birthday rocked. And I'm expecting no less from the year ahead. Who's with me? :)