short and sweet

i can't really make the claims of "best birthday ever!" or "i really couldn't have asked for more!" without following-up with a blog post... i'm not going to go into much detail, but needless to say, i stand by the aforementioned statements... i guess low-expectations going into it definitely helped, but even then, the few expectations i had were met times thirteen [seems like a reasonable number - and not as common as, oh say, ten]!

so thanks to all my family and friends for making me feel special... and not in the unfortunate-special way.