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I want to whine about being sick and having completely lost my voice, but I also feel like I should not complain because I had a wonderful week and a wonderful birthday party and really the universe had to balance it out somehow!

Tuesday was my and ambyr's 2-year anniversary. She got me beautiful leather gloves, and we went out to dinner, and then this happened, which, well, now we have a new favorite slash pairing.

On Friday, I turned 30!! \o/ I lost a lot of my twenties to depression, so I'm pretty pleased to be turning over a new leaf. Also, I am feeling incredibly blessed to have so many amazing friends. Twenty-five people came to celebrate with me! I didn't think I even knew twenty-five people!

Heather and I made chocolate mousse raspberry trifle. She has made it for me before, but this time she taught be how to make it, which was awesome!

( Recipe )

It was also coyotegestalt's birthday, so I made him a strawberry-rhubarb pie. The crust did not work, unfortunately, so I have decided that by age 40 I need to learn to make decent pie crust. (I've read the Cook's Illustrated recipe, but the context in which I might make pies are mostly family holidays, and we don't use wine or alcohol in cooking at family holidays in deference to those who are in recovery -- and I don't keep alcohol at home generally because it has a habit of disappearing, and it's not always me who disappears it.)

Yesterday there was singing and another party, and today I woke up without any voice left. I'm hoping it will return before my choir concert tomorrow night, but I have my doubts.

Anyways, turning 30 FTW!!