today...actually yesterday, was my birthday, well its still my birthday in california, i guess thats a benefit of living in europe, 33 hours of birthday...anyway, it was great. i felt extremely loved and it came at such a good time (im well aware that it comes the same time every year) because id just been kind of feeling disconnected with how much id been gone this summer. i had a group of friends come over and we grilled out, drank good wine, ate a lot of cake and played pictionary, it was really wonderful, especially since i had such low expectations for today.
perhaps one of the stranger things that happened was receiving this text from my cell phone company "Sehr geehrte Frau Wallace, T-Mobile sendet Ihnen die besten Gluckwunsche zu Ihrem Geburtstag"
basically, 'miss wallace t-mobile sends you best wishes on your birthday'.
i didnt know phone companies did that. so random.

simon and louis grilling out

louis and rachel with the cake they decorated for me

kim enjoying the frosting more than the rest of us