Super Birthday

Maybe the best ever. Here's what happened:

• I got a birthday sms from my special lady.
• I got card and chocolate bar from Klaipeda Hotel, to the club of which, Honolulu, I have a discount card.
• I got a card, thoughtful wishes, and a bottle of some kind of novelty polish liquor, from my office mates
• I got a plant and map of "the american world," (e.g. south america is "coffee and cocain," canada is "mooseheads," et cetera) from other colleagues, i.e. the young single women
• I got a ocketzides, i mean, pocketsized notebook with pen from my master's classmates (presumably ideal for cheatsheets...this whole nation is jam packeted, i mean, packed with cheaters)
• I got a call from Lokys and Liepa, and took a shot with each of them. Theirs was plain vodka, mine was hot pepper vodka from russia, which was very hot indeed.
• I got a call from Juste, Aurimas, Gedas, and somebody else, possibly Bronius, which was nice.
• I went out to dinner with my special lady. I ate a peppersteak, medium rare, which is what I always eat and always at the same place when I go out to dinner in Klaipeda--The Black Cat's Tavern II. She ate almost half a portion of Kepta Duona (an appetizer); she said she was nervous cause she hadn't been able to find anything to wear, although she looked absolutely stunning, unbelievably so, I couldn't take my eyes off her.
• After this she suggested we walk home. This is an hour walk in ~ -25° C (-13° F) weather, not counting the wind chill factor, right next to the sea! How can I say no to a girl, though? So we start doing this thing, freezing my balls off, pretending I'm not cold at all, until half way home she suggests calling a cab if I want to, and I say we can if she wants to, and we'd both love to call a cab but we can't decide who caved in, so we don't. Finally I decided to just be a man and cave in. I freezed my damn hand off making the phone call (two thumbs up on the gloves, Tete).