Yesterday day was my birthday, and it was amazing. Rather than any large productions, it was a day of thoughtful generosities.

As midnight approached, Steve eagerly waited for it to officially be my birthday before he produced a gift. Simultaneously the most ridiculous and awesome gift ever, I got the world’s only internet connected bunny, a Nabaztag! (Really, it is kind of crazy, so you should just click on the link.)

After promptly naming him “Peru”, I struggled for about an hour to introduce him to his new Internet-based home (turns out that Airports need some extra configuration – why? No clue.), and then somehow let a couple more hours slip by teaching him to wake me up in the morning, play NPR, read Twitter tweets, and practice Tai-Chi. (You didn’t click that link, did you? You might want to now.)

Minka is confused. “You better learn how to tell the weather”, Peru threatened at one point. Still my favorite effect has to be the twitter updates. I follow this emo-rockstar who tweets the most over the top thoughts you can imagine. The only thing better that reading a tweet such as “Murder by sunrise…” is hearing a white plastic bunny randomly say it in a British accent.

Understandably, I was late to the office the next morning. Here coworkers casually took me out to lunch (Vijay will be out of the country when I move), and I was surprised with a LOL-homage when I got back to my desk.

Steve and I had made brownie bites the night before (waiting for midnight and a bunny, no doubt), and so I declared 2:30 PM “It’s my birthday so we are eating brownies” time, and invited everyone to my “corner cubicle” (yes, I have arrived).

That night, I was blown away at a casual birthday happy hour to which everyone attended. It was an evening full of unexpected moments of kindness, such as this discovery by Kristina:

Friends came from all over – from the AAMC, to CCT, and all the random places in between. People kept asking me if I was “having a good day”, and I honestly did. Not because I felt like I was supposed to, not because it was any big day with big expectations, but because of a continuous stream of thoughtful moments from people who care. Thank you all!