My Birthday

So it was my birthday on wednesday, and I knew something was up because everyone was trying to be suave … too suave. Because people always think that you should have to surprise someone with a gift, indicating to me that they think it’s all about the surprise while I think it’s all about the gift, I started prodding, dropping some phrases here and there meant to upset people. I turned into my own agent provocateur. Slowly but surely I started to uncover the conspiracy, which ran deep … very deep. I admit that the conspiritors had me confused, because I had already gotten a gift; two tickets to last night’s Massive Attack concert (more on that later), but when Cathelijne called to wish me a happy birthday and ask how I liked the gift, she acted rather surprised when I told her I was looking forward to the concert. That wasn’t the gift she was talking about! There was going to be another gift, and Cathelijne was in the conpiracy but too nice to decieve me like the others, bless her heart! My mother and sister had been acting strange as well, so I suspected they were in on it. When I asked, my mother tried to act as if the surprise birthday cake (complete with 30 candles) was the thing that they had been planning behind my back, but it was a weak lie, and it showed me that her condition was affecting her in ways that would’ve never happened in the past. I had found another crack in the defenses of the conspiracy, so I chopped down one leg and leaned on it. I decided to step up my research, putting my mother and sister up against one another. Pretty soon I had all the information I needed. When I got home later that night I found waiting for me what I had already suspected would be there …

I want to thank everyone who participated in getting me this gift. It’s wonderful, and it looks even better in person than it did when I first found it online. I was amazed at the timeliness of the gift, since usually a collaborate gift takes a lot of time to set up (*cough*Dennis*cough*), which just goes to show how deep the deception in my circle of friends, family and co-workers ran. ;)