Very Merry Birthday

We had our Wok Dinner on Monday night, Valentine's Day. I hate Valentine's Day - the only good part of that ridiculous holiday is the conversation hearts, and they don't even sell conversation hearts in Denmark. Valentine's Day is almost non-existent here; nobody does anything for it, few of the stores even use it as a ploy to boost sales. We kept our dinner as un-Valentine's as possible and I feel like it turned out pretty well. There were 12 of us total that ate, and there was plenty of food for everyone. Emily, Jenn and I also made fortune cookies. It was a lot of fun, going around the table, everyone reading theirs. We weren't sure if the non-English speakers would understand a lot of the plays on words, but they got most of them, and we were able to explain the ones they didn't. We did run out of wine, which made me unhappy. That's practically a cardinal sin, running out of wine at a dinner. But other than that, it was a good time, everyone had fun, and I'd like to do another dinner in the future.

It's still snowing, snowing, snowing. It'll stop for a few hours and then start again. The roads are semi-cleared, the buses are running, but there's snow everywhere. It's inconvenient and makes the bottom of my pants look gross, but it's very beautiful to look at. The view from my window is really nice.

So today was my birthday. I have to admit, it's not the nicest birthday I ever had. I'm sick (of course), so I wasn't feeling great. I had to spend several hours running errands in the snow. Not good for my illness or my happiness. I'm tired of freezing! It's enough to make me (gasp!) miss Texas/Oklahoma weather. Anyway, I got home and collasped into bed, totally exhausted from battling the weather for 4 or 5 hours. What a difference a car makes. Once I woke up, Jenn & Emily came over, and we planned a weekend trip to Berlin. I'm excited about going; I think we'll have a good time. After they left, I got ready and went to Lee's kollegium, Teknolog. He was making fajitas for the people on his floor, and he invited me to come. It sounded like a good birthday dinner - fajitas with lots of fun Italians and Lee. Unfortunately, I got there about 30 minutes after the dinner had started. There were no fajitas left. So you know what my birthday dinner was? Rice. That's right, plain white rice with a few pieces of corn in it. Then I went to Mellow Cafe, where they were having a Valentine's Mellow. Oh, how sweet. Needless to say, I did not find my one true love, and it was a pretty boring evening. Lee was the only person who bought me a drink for my birthday, too, which was disappointing, although a lot of people came up and told me happy birthday. I left after a couple hours of shallow chatting with the people I knew. Oh well. Better birthday next year, I hope.