Birthday to Remember

Wow! I was blown away by a weekend full of surprises. I've known and bragged about how wonderful "J" is. This weekend there's no doubt I'm the most lucky man on earth for having "J" as a boyfriend.

Saturday started with birthday in bed. (Minds out of the gutter please...Sarah...Dean...Lewis that means you too!) Presents and presents and more presents. I opened three awesome button down shirts, a Will & Grace DVD, running shorts, a card, and more importantly, "J" was there with me. I told him so. The best present was him...there with me...knowing he loves me as much as I love him. (and yes...there was some gutter stuff immediately following).

I rested up for the race Saturday, and then we raced downtown in the Big City to meet Gal Pal and the co-workers running with me to register. Then came another surprise..."J" packed each of us a little post running gift bag...complete with heat wraps, ibuprofen, band aids, and some other goodies. Isn't he such a sweetie?

After getting my running bib & number and my timing chip, we drove back out to the 'burbs and grabbed a quick carb-ful dinner and headed to trivia night. Once there came another surprise. Instead of following the 'That's Entertainment" theme, our table had a "Happy 30-th Birthday W" theme!!! It was like I had a party with 200 of my closest friends (mostly strangers). Party hats, a birthday princess crown, buttons, glitter, balloons, streamers, and all the decorations to match. A complete stranger brought a cake from an Italian specialty bakery...(i had a small piece despite the sugar). Again, I was completely blown away.

Before the first round of questions "Showtunes"...we had the church's biggest drag queen perform a few numbers, including a happy birthday led salute to moi. Who can say they had a drag queen sing happy birthday to them at a church function? Not many. I got more than a dozen cards and some gift bags and lots of friendly well wishes.

Then "J" gave me a bag with two more gifts. One was a book "Invitation to Fairyland"...private joke between us....and then I opened the biggest and best surprise of the evening!!! Inside the box, I found a guidebook to New York City and a note!!! "Pick a few places out of here for when we take a trip for two to NYC!" Wow! I've never been...and I'm totally excited about getting to go.

"J" also had the peeps from my work make a 'best of' DVD ' of my own work...more like a blooper reel...which he showed off on a portable DVD player at our table. The final surprise of the night...the final round of trivia was "The Wizard of OZ"...sponsored by J..."for his Dorothy".

I'm still reeling from all the excitement and surprises. I actually might have left something out.

Oh yeah, I finished the half marathon in 2:36...six minutes shy of my goal, but I finished and that's all that matters.

I'll profile the race in tomorrow's post.

Smooches,
"W"