birthday recap!

first of all: THANK YOU everyone for the birthday wishes! i had a FANTASTIC birthday last week. happy hour turned into happy evening, and happy evening = happy alice.

second of all: internets, you are very wise. and i trust your judgement. so much so, that even though i had already completely written off that first blue banana shirt, your comments persuaded me to reconsider. and i wore the shirt out for my birthday. trust in you: i has it!

and of course i wore the sweater too, because as we know i'm droolingly in love with it:

i made out FANTASTICALLY this year. as i was getting ready for the boy to come over, a package arrived from my parents, containing a new giants jersey (plaxico burress!). i have - and love! - a tiki barber jersey, but had been telling my dad that i was thinking i should get another jersey of someone who is, you know, an actual current player for the giants. i going to buy an osi umenyiora jersey at the beginning of the season... but he blew out his knee before i got around to ordering. so my dad got me plaxico :-) yay, dad!

and then. then! the boy did very, VERY well, and managed to finally initiate me into the 21st century: he got me my very own ipod. i was one of roughly six americans under the age of 30 who still didn't own an ipod of any sort, and now i have the unbelievably awesome ipod classic. in silver. SUPER HEART. i may even go running today, just because now i have music to listen to while i suffer!

and then my roommate val, who is awesome, got me another totally perfect present: framed pictures she had taken of my cats. HEE. they're so great - they're total glamour shots. am definitely a confirmed cat lady.

the evening was fantastic. i was all "dude, i'm 28 now. i'll have a few civilized drinks, as is appropriate these days." HA. i suggest not mixing champagne in amongst your lemondrop martinis if you're trying to stay civilized. just a little tip from me to you.

more pictures, as always, if you want 'em. and now, it's technically a day late, but go say happy birthday to hillary too!