Life Lessons

were learned last night as we progressed into Natalie's birthday, among them are these precious gems:

• "Boyfriends are boring."
• "Boyfriends are like spare tires. You should always keep on one the side just in case your main one breaks."
• having problems in a relationship? No matter how trivial it is, such as he won't kiss me goodnight, "you should just break up with him and say 'NEXT VICTIM!'".
• if you don't use PAM, then the cake falls apart very easily.
• it's the thought that counts, even if the cake looks like it was constructed from a two year old - it is still after all a cake.
• lighting 18 candles even though it was her 20th birthday struck me as odd, but I said nothing, because the cake experience was already going so swimmingly.
• when lighting the candles, it helps to start from the inside and going outwards, otherwise you will burn yourself no matter what you do.
• only brave boyfriends will stick their hand in the burning ring of fire to pick up a candle that fell in the middle (like I said, these lessons will forever stick in my mind).
• it helps to light the candles when you know the recipient is on their way, so as to reduce the amount of wax that falls on the cake.
• it's the one time of the year where you can nag someone to do something because "it's your birthday"
• jokes are infinitely more funny if it's in another language, as demonstrated by Pez who cannot speak English yet laughed at every joke.

And to conclude with the most important lesson learned: cake tastes great no matter how shoddily it was prepared.