I gotta tell you, I’m a big fan of this birthday weekend thing. Granted, yesterday had nothing to do with my birthday, and Saturday was only marginally birthday related… but the birthday festivities started with margaritas on Friday night and extend through dinner with my grandmother tomorrow.

I was happily surprised to come in to work this morning and find a big balloon bouquet sitting on my desk, courtesy of Janette! I gotta tell you, I like having my birthday acknowledged. I’m not the type of person who would rather no one knew or noticed my birthday. Maybe it’s because growing up, school always started after my birthday (all the way through college) so I never got to have the small birthday acknowledgments that other kids did, and I don’t mind telling you, I’ve always been slightly bitter about that fact. Though I suppose I can’t complain too much since I did enjoy the fact that I never had to go to school on my birthday.

I have a twin brother, so I’ve always had to share my birthday. This year I am loving the fact that I have had a few individual birthday celebrations. For the first time, I haven’t asked for my birthday off of work, and I have to admit, I love that people are passing through and telling me happy birthday. Big thanks to Janette for the Happy Birthday balloons so I don’t have to casually slip in birthday mentions first.