The penultimate birthday before Things Get Serious in the 30s is not necessarily a cause for insane debauchery. (Though I would like to point out that for just another month and a half I'll be able to remove the "00"s from the year — say, 2009 — to produce my age. That was so cool! :( Sad. But now it's kind of cool because for the next several decades (... um, probably until I die), you can split the year in half, and add those two halves to create my age — 2010 is 20+10 = 30! and so on. Yes, I know that that only works for 1.5 months per year, but whatevs! Math magic!)
Anywho, my 29th birthday (today) has been a relaxing, quiet affair during which I've enjoyed many a call/email/text/facebook messages, I've written a bit, I sat in the sun for a while trying to withstand the cold in an effort to get a tan, and, of course, had a few cupcakes.
Let's start in the morning, shall we?
My birthday breakfast included coffee (note the mug, follow its advice) and cookies-and-creme cupcakes courtesy of the highly talented Malerie (the flowers are also her doing — thanks, Malerie!). On the bottom of each cupcake is half an Oreo — it's seriously fun.
For part of my lunch I enjoyed a cupcake from Rocco's Italian pastry shop near my folks' place in Hamden. Delicious chocolate cupcake with what appears to be a chocolate ganache topping and a chocolate mousse filling. Ridiculous....ly amazing.
And finally, with evening came a chilled bottle of Riesling from this winery that I recently wrote about! What's more, I got to drink it in my brand-new cupcake wine glass. So awesome. :)
This was a very happy, cupcakey birthday.
