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You, the reader: Another list? For the love of God, woman, form an actual paragraph already!

Me: I don’t have to. I’m thirty.

I may never write in paragraphs again, or use anything other than bullet points to organize my thoughts. Which, at the moment, are mostly about food and birthday parties. That reminds me:

• Wednesday night’s birthday celebration (planned by Matt; revealed to me last-minute, thus giving me a surprise without actually forcing anyone to hide and jump out yelling “SURPRISE!”) was very fun and surprisingly well-attended for a weeknight. Friends with kids/jobs/addresses in other states who still hung out for a few hours in our backyard are awesome.
• Staying up too late on Wednesday led to some regrets on Thursday, especially with regards to crabby children who CANNOT LEARN TO SLEEP IN, NO MATTER HOW LATE THEY GO TO BED WHY WHY WHY?!?
• Our Crabby Thursday of Regrets was not enough to get Matt and me to stop watching Weeds (Rachel, if you’re reading, we found it online!) at a reasonable hour. We also had to catch up on So You Think You Can Dance that we had missed because we were busy watching Weeds. So, you know, still tired.
• But not too tired to go running again! That makes four times in the last week, if you’re counting. (Incidentally, that also makes four times in the last nineteen months or so. We needed some time apart, running and I.)
• Birthday RSVP tally for Siena’s party on Sunday: 51. Fortunately, that breaks down as 30 adults, 21 kids. So we’ll have a slight advantage in terms of numbers. And in terms of ability to drink beer. That’ll help.
• Dinner plans for tonight: sushi with my family. More birthday-related awesomeness! I should probably go get ready. You know, soonish. (Matt: “NOW.”)
• Not really a bullet point item, but a question pertaining to food and birthdays, which were the general themes giving this list any semblance of cohesion: anyone have a good (easy) recipe for homemade frosting? Or is the pre-made stuff the way to go? I am planning to spend tomorrow making a metric crap-ton (scientific unit of measurement) of birthday cupcakes, and also a cake shaped like a princess castle. So I will probably go the pre-made frosting route, but you never know. Feel free to weigh in.