And there was!<\/p>\n
I had a great time yesterday. My work day was filled with phone calls, instant messages and emails wishing me a happy birthday. I had lunch at Finale with Ben and Brad before returning to work where the Human Resources department here threw me a little birthday party since I’m a department of one (they’ve adopted me as their own – such great neighbors).<\/p>\n
Then, some co-workers (Peg, Adrienne, Sarah) popped by with some brownies and cheer.<\/p>\n
Finally, I left work and met up with a sexy looking Mike at Francesca’s Cafe before joining the rest of the gang (a total of 7 people) for dinner at Metropolis Cafe. There was\u00a0Marin, Jason, Fred, Sven and Art. The conversation was great and the laughter practically non-stop. I even had some wine. Yep – two glasses – a rarity for me.<\/p>\n
After dinner and dessert (they did the obligatory…and embarrassing…act of having the waitress deliver my dessert with a candle while singing Happy Birthday), we all split off and I went back to Mike’s place.<\/p>\n
Then this morning I found out that Taylor Hicks won American Idol! YAY! I hated that bitch, Kat McPhee. So this news\u00a0was a great birthday gift for me!<\/p>\n
Oh, and one last birthday related thing….my aunt and uncle from the Cape sent me a birthday card. Now, they’re very, very, very, very (have I mentioned very?) religious – Baptist. Obviously, I expected a wholesome card from them and I wasn’t disappointed. Though, I do have to wonder whether they still think I’m 13 years old. The card showed a cartoon dog pushing a shopping cart with various items spilling out of it. The “poem” read:<\/p>\n
A nephew’s sort of like a son you don’t have to raise (I’m 35…how much raising is there?).<\/em><\/p>\n When he needs foods, clothes and books, it isn’t you who pays!<\/em><\/p>\n And you don’t have to get him up on time for big occasions,<\/em><\/p>\n Or strain your brain to help him solve his algebra equations (when did I last have algebra homework?)<\/em><\/p>\n Yes, a nephew’s sort of like a son, but with one major perk….<\/em><\/p>\n You get to have the pride and joy and love — without the work!<\/em><\/p>\n I shouldn’t be making fun of them because they’ve always been very sweet to me (mostly because they don’t know I’m gay). I suspect their sweetness would end once that little bit of news came out. But I simply couldn’t handle them “saving” me again (they did that a lot when I was in 6th grade because I apparently used the lord’s name in vain too much).<\/p>\n Fortunately, my relatives on my mother’s side already know I’m gay\u00a0(and some\u00a0even try to hook me up with guys). I think I have more in common with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And there was! I had a great time yesterday. My work day was filled with phone calls, instant messages and emails wishing me a happy birthday. I had lunch at Finale with Ben and Brad before returning to work where the Human Resources department here threw me a little birthday party since I’m a department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}