Birthday!

Ugh, I am not very good at blogging. I often work on the computer all day, and then turning it on for fun at home just doesn't seem like fun.

Regardless, I came one year closer to being grown up (whatever that is) last Friday. I have been feeling pretty old lately - lots of grey hairs, can't lift full 50L carboys on my own anymore, the new fashions in the stores repulse me (the 80's died for a reason...), and the "kids" on campus really seem like kids. Hedgehog Guy took me shoe shopping (bless him) and out to a wonderful dinner on the shore during my birthday weekend. Just what I wanted.

I am not big on birthday parties. But the other post-doc in the lab had his birthday a couple days before mine, so he had the labbies over for a party the night of my birthday. I was not too sure about going, but we had a great time (we are so anti-social!). Below is video of the cake that Jessica graciouly made for me and a video of Renat and I's cake serenade. My cake has a virus on it (lol) and the name Heather Summers. This is an allusion to the fact that I'm almost the exact opposite of a former post-doc in the lab whose name was Christian Winter. So the opposite of his name would be Heathen Summer... You get the point. Hope this year finds everyone with many happy returns on their birthdays - especially Hedgehog Guy's sister who shares my birthday!