Birthdays

I was thinking a lot about birthdays, and I think it is dumb for people to be upset about getting older. Why would you be upset that God has given you another year of life? It is a magnificent gift! Celebrate it!

Yesterday was my 26th birthday. To celebrate, we went out to eat at the Olive Garden. There were 4 birthdays being celebrated there last night, including one at the table right next to us! I felt kind of guilty telling them it was my birthday—I felt like they thought I was lying just so I could get a free desert (they did in fact charge me for the desert, which further confirms my suspicions). But they came out and sang to me, which was lots of fun.

Props to Ned for making my birthday special. He came home from work with a Starbucks cupcake, an Elvis card, and a candle set that I had seen a month ago and said was cute—he remembered it all this time! Then we went out to a fabulous dinner.

Ned started his new job yesterday. It’s not for the company I mentioned before, but it is for a company that builds the same caliber houses. The one they showed him the day of his interview had 6 fireplaces, a fire pole in one of the kids’ bedrooms, and an entire wall that was an aquarium in the other kid’s bedroom! Talk about a cool house! His boss is pretty cool too- once he found out it was my birthday, he kicked Ned off the job and told him to go home to me at once! Too bad he didn’t find out until 4:30.

In other news, the mysterious free cable we had in our apartment is no more. For some reason, when we moved in, we had cable! We never buy cable, so this was a special treat for us. We got to watch the Olympics, as well as other not so noble shows. It in fact became a small addiction, and we had even discussed maybe doing a fast from it. Well lo and behold, this weekend it shut itself off. It is better for me, I’m sure, but I do still have some withdrawal. Especially since I do not yet have a job and days can be long and boring. Oh well! Guess I will have to find better things to do with my time. Like blog :)