I got some of those frog-tongue-like party horns, which we all had way too much fun with, testing our breath control by making them furl and unfurl as slowly as possible.

I got baby carrots and cherry tomatoes and cashews and yummy smoky salsa and garlic hummus, and a big cake with gigantic, lardy, orange icing roses on top.

I got friends who got big stories and little presents for me.

I think I may have gotten flirted with, but I'm always really bad at knowing that for sure.

I got a little drunk.

I got perfumed lotion and flowy scarves from three different people, because I'm apparently a very fragrant and scarfy young lady. (It's true! It's true!)

I got a note from a friend whose birthday is the day after mine, apologizing because though she meant to call me on Friday, she couldn't because she "passed out in [her] clothes." I got a big laugh over that.

I got some fantastic emails and lovely phone calls and oh my God I have to call a bunch of people back.

I got a room inhabited by a handful of my all-time favorites, all sitting around eating and drinking and laughing and being dorks.

I got to take the rest of my cake home, and eat generous gobs of frosting all by myself before throwing the rest away, because I have very little use for store-bought cake but all the love in the world for canned frosting, especially the thin purple lines of icing which spell my name.

I got to acknowledge the blessings of living alone, and being able to eat frosting over your sink, even retrieving that which has fallen off of your spoon onto the floor, because no one has to know that you just enjoyed a dollop of sugary orange roses from your cat hair sprinkled tiles.

I got to sleep until three in the afternoon, knowing that more friends are taking me out for dinner tonight. I got to have a full weekend of very small, relaxed, and earnestly heartfelt celebrations.

I got to have a bloody sweet twenty-sixth. Thanks, everybody.

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