The Birthday

Just wanted to make a quick post thanking everyone who did make my birthday special and not as sad as I thought it was going to be.
I had myself a nice little cry the night before my birthday, it was really the first time I have cried since Jake left and I think it just all hit me at once. But it was good to get that over and now I feel a lot better!
Jake surprised me at work yesterday by having balloons and two little teddy bears sent. I was sitting innocently at my desk when the secretary approached carrying five balloons with the bears tied at the bottom! It was too cute. Then, since it was also another persons birthday at work we decided to all go out for bbq at lunch time. It was a fun lunch and everyone on our team at work had signed a b-day card and gave it to me at lunch. What a great surprise. I also got serenaded by my mom, leigh, my dad, and jake all by voicemail!! So that gave me a good bit of laughter and smiles as I was driving home from work late that night.
Another thing which made it a lot better was that lela did not tear anything up yesterday!! I started an experiment to see if lela was grown up enough to stay out of her crate during the day and so far she has been great. The first day she tore up some styrofoam plates that I left on the counter and the next day she was pretty bad and chewed through a box that had a portable hard drive in it and ate the power cord to the device!! eek. But yesterday and today she was an angel and did nothing! I am so happy that I can leave her out to roam around the apartment while I am at work. It is much better for her to be able to stretch her legs (and watch animal planet) instead of being cooped up in her cage all day. The only annoying thing is that I have to make sure I leave nothing on the counters or on the bookshelves that she can chew up. I also have to make sure the bedroom and bathroom doors are firmly shut and I put callie up in the sun room just so there will not be a fight while I am not at home (I really don't want to come home to a dead kitty cat...that would just be baaad.)

So, over all a great day!
And I DID get a card which made me not feel like Charlie Brown!! :)