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Yes, I know I am like 2 weeks overdue for an update on my birthday celebration(s).  Please excuse me… I’ve been actually having to work at work.  I agree, it stinks.

For the record, I just want to say how incredibly blessed I am.  My family and friends pulled out all the stops to make my birthday fantastic.  Even if it was just a run-of-the-mill 28th birthday (gasp!).  The fact that they let the celebrating drag on for 3 weeks shows just how awesome they are.

Birthday celebration 1: Dad, ESM, Bruce and Mary surprised me with a dinner in DC at a seafood joint called Blacksalt’s while I was visiting Reston.  Um, any place that has fresh seafood on ice, where you can pick which fish you want and how it’s done… yes please!

Birthday celebration 2: Dinner at Cremona with 15 fantastic friends followed by jello shots in the parking lot followed by family karaoke.  Perfection.  Minus our buzz kill of a waiter who had to calculate the bill by hand, delaying us an hour.  Private room karaoke is really where it’s at.  Especially when you have friends that pull out all the stops with props (ah, I rhymed) and will sing with/listen to you sing for 2+ hours.  Thanks to Baby and Daddy for the Elvis wig, glasses and balloon (may ye rest in peace on the side of Royal Lane).

Birthday celebration 3: Bible Study with my girls followed by $3 dollar glasses of wine at Cibus.  A lovely, relaxed evening.

Birthday celebration 4: Dinner at my tied-for-first-place favorite restaurant, Hudson’s on the Bend.  Goat cheese salad, venison, chocolate and caramel dipped pecan pie.  Oh Lawdy, I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven.  Thank you, family, thank you.

I just hope everyone has enough gas in the tank for 2 years from now when we go to Europe to celebrate my 30th birthday.  And yes, I’m not that self centered… we can celebrate yours, too.  Or whatever birthday it will be for you that year.  Tell ‘em to come on!