Birthday

Sharing the positive bits of my birthday is something I am pretty excited about, even though it should be a happy thing, for me, it hasn't been for a while.  My mentor/trainer/friend had a brain aneurysm on my thirteenth birthday, so the last few years, my birthday has been overshadowed by grief.  I've just tried to make it through the days leading up to and through my birthday, but this year I put a lot of effort into at least somewhat enjoying my birthday.  And it worked pretty well.  My family has been very important in helping me this year (and past years), I have just actually accepted the help this year. I don't think that I could ever really make them understand that the things they do can have such a positive effect on me; but it has, and I'm grateful for that.

So let's move past the heavy stuff and talk about the fun stuff! On Saturday night, my parents took me out to dinner at a "Sushi Ai." They have all you can eat made to order sushi. Considering that I'm Ovo-Pescetarian, you might think that I would eat a lot of fish, but I really don't have it often, so having sushi was pretty awesome. This is probably why for the first time in my life I over ate, by more than one or two bites! I don't recommend this at all; it wasn't pleasant. HA HA.  We had a lot of fun though.

Sunday we baked my cake, cooked out over a fire and just talked for several hours.  Monday we decorated my cake. And lastly, on Tuesday, I went and got my licence, since in Illinois the DMV is closed on Monday. These are the pictures we took on Monday:

 The T.A.R.D.I.S cake pre-candles.

My Mother lighting the candles (because no one wanted me to just go play with the lit candles)   :-)

The T.A.R.D.I.S cake all lit up.

Me blowing out the candles.

Me "licking" the cake.

Our tongues were so blue by the time we all had a slice!

For anyone that doesn't know what a T.A.R.D.I.S is, here is the wikipedia page for an explanation that isn't as long as mine would be. Hopefully it's accurate; I only read the first section and this is a great video from the show to explain why she's bigger on the inside.