Happiness All Around Us

Okay. I did it. I had a birthday this week. And it was a big one. It's the one that I have dreaded for about 5 years now. I always joked that I would need to be sedated for this one. Yep...you know it...I turned 30. When did I grow up? I don't remember. And I didn't see the memo. I never got this memo!! But anyway, back to the happy part.

I went to work and no one said a thing to me that morning. By lunch time, I was almost depressed. I mean, you would think that the people I spend 40 hours with a week would remember something like that. Anyway, around 3:00, one of the girls IMs me and asks if I want to walk to the post office with her. I have a bill to mail, so I tell her I will. Then she informs me that we have to first walk upstairs to get some money from someone. So, I trot up the stairs with her and she suddenly shoves me into one of the side offices and everyone yells "surprise!!" I was so shocked. I still have this bill in my hand that needs to be mailed and everything. But it was fabulous. Here I thought they had forgotten about me, but they had intended to surprise me all along. Super fun!

Then...

I had plans on just going to have some dinner with a group of friends that night. Something simple, yet fun. Well, they had other plans. I ended up getting clues, having my makeup and hair done in the fashion of the 80s (then like that of an old lady complete with wig), and doing crazy and fun stuff all night. I kept being told that we had dinner reservations at 7:45...that's why we only had a few minutes for each thing. So the last clue was given and we were off to the restaurant. While en route to the restaurant, I had two people in the back seat with me working on my hair and make up yet again. The hair started out as pig tails and then turned into braids. Then those braids turned into buns. So I asked if they were doing a Princess Lei job on me. They promptly told me no...they were just making it look like a little girls hair. When all of that was done, the blindfold went back on and we drove around for a bit. We finally get to the restaurant and I am led in. I hear one of my friends say that we were set over to the left, so I was steered in that direction. The blindfold suddenly came off and I was face to face with a ton of my friends from church in my pastor and his wife's house. It was so much fun! I was facing the table which was decked out in star wars goods. Several of my friends had on darth vader masks and were holding light sabers. So my hair was indeed in Princess Leia fashion. It was such a fun surprise. I had no idea that they were going to pull something like that off. And before the night was over, everyone got to sit down and watch the whole video of the evening. It was amazing.

Happiness is...having a scary birthday upon you, but having friends who turn it into an amazing day.