I celebrate my birthday with family on one day and celebrate separately with my friends on another day. This keeps my two lives separate.
In the town I live in, there's a wonderful baker that makes simple sugar cookies to the most intricately designed wedding cakes.
Each and every time I've been in the bakery the baker comes out to the front, smiled at me, nodded, and said hello.
I frequent this establishment twice a week. Mondays for donuts at work, and Friday after work for the thumb print cookies for my mom. The large yellow bell above the door indicates a customer entering the bakery.
I have been doing this routine for eleven years.
My 45th birthday party was planned by my friend Judith, and she insisted we go to the bakery and have the hot baker make my birthday cake for my party.
Judith sat down with the baker face to face to stress on the main points for my cake. "No flowers. Just a simple chocolate cake with white frosting around the edges for thirty people."
I continue to nod my head yes, agreeing with her description. A bit taken in, because I've been creaming over the baker for eleven years. The baker smiled at his notes and shook our hands. "I have the perfect cake for you." He grinned.
I was born in January and during this lovely month the weather sucks big time, and that year wasn't any different. A winter storm came in at three in the afternoon. This bad weather caused traffic accidents and delays in driving time.
Judith messaged me that she was running late and still needed to pick up the cake. I, on the other hand was on time and the first one to arrive to my own party. I was dressed in my sexy gold dress, high heels and feeling ecstatic.
At seven o'clock, my guests began arriving and my birthday party began. Delicious food, great friends and strong drinks, create a fabulous celebration.
"Bring out the cake!" Judith chirped from her birthday planner throne.
A waiter brought the cake out on a platter. I instantly noticed the odd facial expressions on the waiters. With candles blazing, a waiter gently placed my birthday cake before me.
The gasps of every guest at the table were a blend of ewwwws and awwwws. Mine was a blunt response of, "Judith!"
"What?" She stood up and walked over to my end of the table and glared at my cake. "I said no flowers!"