Perhaps the strangest birthday evar

Hey folks! I’m 26!

My birthday was yesterday—I share it with Harry Potter—and I spent a large slice of that pie moving the final pieces of the apartment over to the Monticello. I had take the entire day off of work to get it done during the course of the day, only to be informed at 12:30PM that the office had expected us out by 12:00PM. This resulted, of course, in a flurry of mindless packing just to get everything out as fast as we could. It kindof sucked at the time, but in the end, we got it done, and that feels excellent. Sure we’re living again in a fortress of boxes, but at least now we can finish the moving-in process at our leisure and without so much carting and heavy lifting.

Other highlights of my birthday included a full-strength blow to the side of my car with a cart. My poor hoopty now has a very noticeable dent ?. I also narrowly avoided what would have been a pretty damn bad car crash: I was turning left onto University Avenue, and a car came flying through the intersection to the right of me (they had a red light). FLYING through. I was going slowly through the turn so I missed him. But I could see in my head the high-speed impact to my passenger side. Oh the irony of being in a car accident on your birthday. Whew.

But it was a nice birthday, really. Just a strange one! I just felt a little jinxed (or at least, clumsy and tired). My whole body ached from the big move, but then we went to our wedding dance lessons and just felt tremendously better. Loosened and happy. We practiced doing the entrance to our first dance. DREAMY!

I had visited WV over the weekend, and we had a cheesecake and read through my baby book to learn what my 1st and 2nd birthdays were like. It was funny, but also kindof strange to be sitting in front of my parents as an adult and watching them revisit me as a 2-year-old, just graduating to swinging “on my butt” instead of “on my tummy” on the big-kid swings.

The wedding is all coming together. Mom has expanded the duties of our florist to do more decorating, which has relieved a great deal of stress on her. We have at least 180 people coming to the wedding. . . around 70 people remain unaccounted for. It is all very odd, how this huge event materializes. You don’t realize how many decisions you’ve made!