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Today's my birthday. I'm older than I was yesterday, but then that's true every day isn't it? The last couple of years, my birthday's been a bit sad. This year it was truly amazing. After making me breakfast, Dave had to leave for a day-long conference. My friend Katie and her daughter came over early this morning just as he was walking out the door and hung out through lunch, making what would have been a fairly long drawn out morning fly right by. Soon after they left my dear friend Jocelyn surprised me with the most amazing home-made pretzels. To say I was thrilled would be an understatement. Later on, Katie and family came back over and made dinner, around the start of which Dave got back home with a birthday cake to accompany the amazing birthday apple pies he made for me. Meanwhile, Henry's birthday present to me was giving me kisses and hugs whenever I asked for them, which was the best present a girl could ask for from a kid who loathes showing any kind of affection whatsoever unless he's asleep in which case he'll snuggle you right off the side of the bed. In summary, it's a glorious thing to sit back at the end of the day and feel very well taken care of, and today I do feel *very* well-taken care of, and loved. I'm looking forward to paying that feeling forward.

This week is an exciting week involving lots of packing and loading and eventually culminating in a big move to a new house on Friday (unless everything falls apart over the next five or so days which is always a worry because I'm a bit of a fatalist). As if that wasn't exciting enough, Friday also heralds in the arrival of a long-awaited addition to a good friend's family. To sum up, as far as days go, Friday is a big one, so while I can't wait for it to get here, I'm also planning on enjoying the anticipation as much as I can.