Thanks to all who posted or sent birthday wishes; they were very much appreciated. I have the best friends ever!
Yesterday was good. I started out the day by sleeping in, which is the best way to start any day, IMO, let alone a birthday. 
After waking up around 10, I lounged about for a bit, showered, checked my e-mail and LJ and was floored by all the birthday greetings from all of you, got serenaded by our back-door-neighbors (the guy who made me my Ravenclaw cake last year, and his family, including his daughter who I taught in church last year) and my grandmother, and then. . . proceeded to do yard work. I’d rather not, but it has to be done, or else we won’t be getting our garden in this year. After the yard work, my mom and I drove downtown to get my cake and stopped at Hires for a root beer freeze (mmmm, root beer freeze), then came home for a family dinner of breadsticks and my mom’s homemade spaghetti (mmmm, spaghetti). Then I finally opened my presents!
From the siblings I got copies of Polagara the Sorceress and Belgarath the Sorcerer by David Eddings (the last two books I needed from the Belgariad/Malloran cycle) and The Artemis Fowl Files by Eoin Colfer (which is great, but which I’m sure I got partially because Lisa and Laura wanted to read it too, especially as they admitted as much). From the parents I got a nice, crisp, brand-new $50 bill, because I want to get the Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman season 1 DVDs, which don’t come out until Tuesday. And from the Evil Triumverate, I got this tote bag, these refrigerator magnets, and a spiral-bound journal bearing the word “muahahahah” on the cover and a to-do list inside, featuring such items as “Crush hope (every day)” and “Place Refrigerator Magnets of Demeaning Bickering on refigerator” and “Offend friends and strangers with Tote Bag of Gratuitous Insults.” Muahahahaha indeed.
After the pressies, we headed down to Provo to see Pirates of Penzance at BYU. So. Much. Fun. Just the right balance of seriousness and comedy, and all the the principals were excellent. I was especially impressed with Mabel– she absolutely nailed “Poor Wand’ring One” which is Not. Easy. We ate my cake down there in Provo (mmm. . . cake. . .), then headed home, thus ending a full, lovely day. Not as full as last year, but I’ll never have a birthday like last year’s. This was good for me.