Friday, July 24, 2009

Belatedly: A 24th

Well. The massive photo upload project (July 2009 edition) is at least partially complete, and there are now 92 new photos that await your perusal. Hurrah! Now only about 800 to go...before we leave for Scotland on Tuesday. EEK. In the meantime, please hop on over to Flickr if you'd like to see me shamelessly advertising my 24th birthday and all those people (well, many of those people) who helped to make it the loveliest one I'd had in a while. [N.B. my birthday was ages ago...in June...when summer was still a wee rosebud, and the beginning of the end (i.e. August...the Sunday night of the year) wasn't looming ominously]

Anyways, on that day so many moons ago, Pres took me out to a delicious al fresco lunch, we lounged with the dogs (and by lounged with the dogs, I mean were dragged along by the dogs while they chased approximately eighty-five deer and sniffed every blade of glass between here and Alaska because WOAH. Deer might have peed here. EVER.) at Valley Forge, and we had a quiet night at home involving Peach André (which, you will remember (from this post), fills me with bliss (and chemically altered fake peach champagne, but I try to ignore that, and generally (re: always) succeed). The next day I had a few graduate students over to my apartment, and we had a little party. With cake! And candles! It was awesome. [Sidenote: if you're looking for a good pound cake recipe, I made this one from Smitten Kitchen for the party, and it was a rousing success. Really. To die for.]

On the morning of my birthday, my friend Morgan (well, I met Morgan in college, but I've really gotten to know her recently from her blog, and now I totally feel like we're friends) wrote on my facebook wall that she hoped I felt celebrated on my birthday. And I have to say, I really did. So with that: thanks to everyone who made the day so wonderful, whether through a facebook wallpost, a card in the mail, an al fresco lunch, the gift of a camera that is far fancier than I am, a phone call, or an email. Thank you for making me feel celebrated.

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