Tomorrow is Louise’s birthday. But today she brought cupcakes to work for everyone. I learned two British things today. Apparently, when it’s your birthday, it’s tradition that you bring the cake for everyone. So Louise ordered dozens of lovely cupcakes from Cupcake Royale. When we went to pick them up today, she got an extra dozen “babycakes” so as not to run out of cupcake goodness. We, of course, had to sample the babycakes as soon as we got back to the car. I sampled chocolate with chocolate frosting. Awesomely delicious. You could taste the cocoa used in the frosting. Not cheap crisco frosting, I’ll tell you what. They had a t-shirt there that said “legalize frostitution” and I wanted it bad. But I have, like, 973 t-shirts already. But it was a pink ringer T! Oh how I want that shirt. I’m pretty sure the happiness derived from that shirt would change my entire life. Right?

The second thing I learned is that, in Britain, they call cupcakes “fairy cakes.” And x-mas lights are called “fairy lights.” I guess that the UK is the land of the fairies. Later, during the Official Eating of the Fairy Cakes, I had a lemon drop cake. Second to chocolate things, I like lemon flavored things best. Yummmm.

Tomorrow, Tessa, Louise, Louise’s BF and I are going to see the Violent Femmes play an outdoor concert at the zoo. Where we plan to eat thai food and sit on blankets and listen to the monkeys. Surprisingly, it’s not even expected to rain. It should be quite pleasant, in the mid 70’s. I’ll let you know.