Happy Birthday to you!

I know today is a hard day for you to be happy* but try to enjoy it if you can.
Eat some really yummy cake and savor the moment!

* for those who don't know, Zoo lost a very close friend of hers in a tragic accident yesterday. Our thoughts are with you during this sad time.
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Thanks AE. It is a bittersweet day. I am fortunate enough to have had the same set of best friends for over 12 years. I am even more fortunate that they are all best friends with each other too. We have spent years together with memories a mile long...even planning our pregnancies together. Thursday there was five us and yesterday we went down to four. One of them was killed in a house fire caused by a lit candle. The fire consumed the house before anything could be done. It is a very surreal thing for me still. I have been to her house, sat on the remainder of her porch for hours yet I still can't wrap my mind around the thought that a face I have seen weekly for years will never appear again...that there won't be anymore 1am Confucius texts....that she won't push me from behind while we run...that all I have left is her myspace and facebook to communicate with. It's funny with so many things negative about myspace I feel like I can still go and write things on her page even thought she will never read it, it's all we have left. I now understand why they don't take down pages of the deceased because as a survivors of life cut way too short we need it...okay I'm rambling and my eyes are blurring and I need to regroup.