I hate Angry Birds, but this is kind of amazing...

... although perhaps not from an eating standpoint. I prefer more cake, less marzipan.

The wrong four-letter J month

So it turns out that not dating my most recent ex-boyfriend is a lot like dating my ex-boyfriend. Either way I get no birthday card, gift, call, or text. In fact, after dating for two and a half years, he still can't remember my birthday.

I wanna lay low with you

Surprisingly, I had a great birthday. Friends, family, and co-workers sent well-wishes and gifts and were very kind. Dad and Jill took me out to Cedars for dinner. My Forever 21 order also arrived today - it was like giving myself a birthday present.

Thanks everyone.

Have I told you lately that I love you?

It makes me want to cry at how hard my father is trying to make my birthday special even with everything that's going on. Even so, not really in the celebratory mood.

Bam, roasted!

I pretty much forgot that today was April Fool's Day, but I managed to sleep in until noon anyway, so I avoided it altogether. However, my Facebook newsfeed was still littered with "pranks" when I got up. One friend said it was his birthday AND that he was engaged. Someone else said they were pregnant.

I don't remember ever really participating in April Fool's Day. One year, when I was little, my sister and I placed a rubber fly in my Dad's food. I think that's the extent of it all.

They say it's your birthday

Has anyone ever seen the episode of The Office (US) where it's Kelly Kapoor's birthday? Jim and Dwight (then co-chair's of the Party Planning Committee) forget her birthday and have to make it up to her. Dwight is in charge of decorations and uses barely blown-up brown and silver balloons (that match the office carpet) and a sign that says "IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY." No exclamation point, just a statement of fact.

If you have seen it, then you now know what my kitchen looks like. It's one of my roommate's birthdays tomorrow. We're both big The Office fans. So, I'm surprising her with her very own Dwight Shrute inspired birthday party. Right down to the birthday theme: a 1 hour nap or 1 hour of television.

Woo!