Hard to get a good pic of the whole thing... My bedroom is so small I'd have to climb out the window to get far enough away!

My able bedbuilding crew. Should be plus my mama, but someone had to take the picture.

Snuggletime. A job well done.

Love my new birthday bed! It was such a nice day, too. I think I should have a Birthday Bedbuilding Barbecue more often-er, but then I'd have too many beds!

We made good use(for the first time) of the rockin' gas grill Rebecca's ex roomate left here. Mmmmm.... Yummy kebab action.

Holly made me a strawberry heart/vagina birthday 'cake' with berries and chocolate kisses. It was sweet, even if the kiss tags didn't burn so well.

:)

I was gifted wonderful things-besides the amazing bed!-mom gave me a 4 million year old fossil dolphin vertebrae... It is a humbling thing to hold the bone of an ancient sentient being in your hand. I will cherish it.

I got to read my latest poems to a very appreciative audience and Josh unexpectedly, spontaneously, gave me perhaps the best present of all:

He turned 'Booty Rising' into a song. It thrilled me no end when he got to the title line-I wondered how he was going to be able to make that fly... He was singing low and sweet and a bit fierce and then, on the last two words, totally dropped his voice to the deep, savage, lustperfect octave.

Rrrrrrrrr....