| Ok~ so thank you to everyone ....
I was telling a friend of mine that I wish there was a better way to express how I'm feeling right now besides "thank you" because that seems so inadequte. I cannot believe that I am special enough to have been so thought of in all aspects today. For one of the first times of my life, I was speechless to the point of tears (yes, now i'm getting all emotional about it), and I just wanted to say thank you. The cards, the digital camera, this oh-so-thoughtful website, food (and definitely dinner), and other gifts and well-wishes touched me more than I ever thought I could be touched. Thank you so much for reminding me what a gift I have from God in every one of you guys, and for helping me feel like a gift as well today.
So would it be so conceited to actually write what heppened? I suppose not, since this IS my weblog...
So Nancy's birthday started last night with the Diwali after party at Gargoyle (Diwali, which, by the way, ROCKED) and then a stop by at She-Yan's place (happy b-day to you, too gal!). Already knew I was being taken care of then (thank you to my guardians~), go to bed having reached 21 successfully.
Today is a nice and low-key day...a wonderful half-asleep convo with the parentals, a thoughtful morning surpirse, church as usual, followed by luau practice, siesta (a call from Chrissy, I think, unless I dreamed that part), a terrific dinner whipped up by Chef Erica (spinach and cheese stuffed chicken with roasted potatoes), and then AMC (where we got to celebrate with Amy's thoughtful loaf cake and startbursts~ :) ).
Finally somewhat motivated (and after conversations with Jan, Wayne, Silv, Eliane, and a few others) I attempt to study for about 2 hours when I am mysteriously lured back to my suite by Sherwin and shown this awesome screen saver... everyone holding up "I love Nancy" and "happy birthday" signs in every screen saver picture. As I'm astonishly watching this, the door flings open and I hear a "surprise!" in the back of my mind (the front still wondering how this got onto my comptuer, and where they had the time to get everyone to pose for the pix). I look up at about a million smiling faces and a dozen camera flashes.
So..... (no, I'm not finished yet!)
I come out, we do the singing thing, the picture thing, the card presentation thing (a BEAUTIFULLY crafted piece of artwork constructed from a high-quality posterboard and autographed by all), and then THE GIFT...
A Cannon digital camera (i'd tell you all the details about it except I don't know any....besides that it's the size of a cell phone and is really cute...which IS something Nancy would notice as its "feature" ) and a memory card capable of holding every single picture I am going to take from now until my third child.
So THEN, as if being already speechless and shocked as it was isn't enough, I'm led BACK to the room, where I am shown THIS, and I just lose it. I can't believe the people on it, and the messages that I am reading (Debbie, how the heck you pulled it off --I have a friend of a friend of Tracie's named Sarah who really wants to know tracie's email!-- I have no idea but it's absolutely unbelievable). So blubbering cry-baby "I-have-the-best-friends-in-the-world" Nancy comes back out to enjoy the mandarin orange whipped cake and the almond jello (HOW do my suitemates INSTINCTIVELY know I'm totally craving almond jello tonight???) and play around with her new toy(s) (and yes, I finally have black mittens~ thank you (again :)) as well as the "speical director's edition of "The System" autographed and all ).
I know I wrote a lot, but I actually left a ton out, too. This is how much I am loved (not that there was any doubt before, but I just can't comprehend how ppl sacrificed so much just to remind me again), and I am soooooooooo lucky to be me....thank you so much. I love you all. |
