For one: woke up in a smashing mood; a rare occasion, especially when the weather outside of a morning suggests a sudden-onset Ice Age. Then I was cheerfully reminded that it was Sunshine's birthday, by a bright spotty box of goodies and the prospect of much cake and merriment flooded my mind!
I was not disappointed. Cakes Galore! I cannot explain adequately the proportion of cake:people that was going on, even as I arrived. This was before Jess brought her own colossal chocolate cake with added cake-shaped-sponge which, amid the marass of cakiness, could very easily have been mistaken for further baked delights!
Highlight of the day, however, was not the cake (though I do suspect the butter-icing in the butter-fly cakes is the reason for my sustained joviality even this late in the evening) but was the present opening! I love presents, for some reason even more when they are for other people, because there is nothing more lovely than watching people getting things they like!
The most intense example of this being the revelation (aptly left till last due to bold letters declaring 'OPEN ME LAST!') of Anna's picture book. Without having a photo of it, I cannot hope to impress upon you the adorableness of said book, which even went so far as to have THREE-DIMENSIONS. The only thing that could top the thing itself was the reaction - tears abound.
For the second time in recent weeks the 'group cry' mentality could be applied. This time, however, it was nothing to do with application stress, or school-based cabin fever. Regardless of being neither giver nor receiver of said book, I was welling up in a serious way.
That takes the cake (not all of it, nobody could possibly take ALL of that) for the most touching moment of the year so far and, perhaps the most hilarious came mere moments afterwards.
If you are aware of Harry Potter, and are aware of Hogwarts School and, and are aware of the grand tradition (though apparently occurring only once for Harry's generation) of The Hogwarts School Song, you will be better able to picture what 'Happy Birthday to You' entailed. Everyone, different pitches and tunes, attempting not to die of laughter whilst singing (at great volume) Sunshine's birthday song. Literal death by laughter, right there.
The only downer was that it had to end so soon - the bell dragging us all in our separate ways to a premature (and frankly poor excuse for a) quiz, and more lessons.
Latin was a laugh (but that is nothing new and ought to be taken as standard), and I managed to get much too involved in an English essay about Carlo. I welled up, for the second time today, that's how involved we are talking about.
All in all, what with a high sugar intake and low stress levels, today was beautiful. :D
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