Yes to day is my BIRTHDAY! And Jenn has been keeping a secret from me for over a week.............

 My best friend C. from Alabama has been home for a month, (she and her partner are truck drivers, her partner is on the road alone....C. needed a break). C. and I talk bacically everday. Jenn and C. planned for C. to come up here this past Friday for my b-day. So, Jenn's big surprise was to get my best friend up here, who I don't get to see but maybe 2x a year!! I didn't know they had been planning this all along. They were really slick....

I was under the impression the birthday surprise was that she was taking me somewhere, cause she told me to be ready to head back out the door when I got home from work on Friday. So I've been trying to figure it out all week. I knew it would be special, cuz she was trying to top last years present. Last year she took me to Orlando to see Melissa Etheridge in concert at the House of Blues. We were probably 10ft from the stage. It was standing room only. And Jenn got us a membership to the Melissa Etheridge fan club, so we had early entry to the concert, along with the other couple hundred members. But it was the best concert I have been to. We also went to Epcot. We were only there for the weekend. So, she told me last year she didn't know how she could top that!

But I think that it was the sweetest thing for her to get my best friend, C. to drive 8 hours to come spend time with me!! How great is that? I am the luckiest person in the world!!!

We didn't do much while C. was here. Just spent time together, all three of us. We went out on the Harley's yesterday. And last night Jenn went to bed abut 12am and C. and I stayed up till about 3:30 talking. It had been the first time she has been to our home. (As embarrassed as I was about the condition it is in.......and I apologized to C. that she had to see it this way....but as a true best friend she doesn't care about that. And in my mind I knew she didn't...but I still felt compelled to say something. ...I know her well enough to know that she doesn't give a shit about stuff like that.) C. and I have known each other for about 11 years. and at one point we lost touch due to some stupid misunderstanding, which caused us about 5 years out of our friendship. And last Valentines day, something told me to just try to contact her and see what happens. So, I did and it was the best decision I could have made. Now it seems as if we were never apart. It sucks though that she and her partner, M. live 8 hours away.

C. and I know everything there is to know about each other.....And I mean everything. We talk about everything you can think of, and then some. Of course some of our conversations, Jenn and M. have made it clear that they wish to be excluded from. We don't keep secrets and we always express ourselves....(only the good kind of secrets/surprises)....C. and M. really like Jenn, which is great. C. and M. have been together for 13 years, C. is a year older than me and M. is 18 years older than her!! And they are truck drivers; they go all over the country. And have been driving together for approx 8 years.....

It was wonderful having C. up here for my b-day.....it was a great b-day present!!!!!!!!!

PS.....In case you are wondering, I turned 34 today!! I can hardly believe it my-self.