Thank you all for your kind wishes.   Sorry to be so tardy in replying (but hey, if there can be belated birthday greetings, then why can't there be belated thank-you's? ).

My boss fêtes everyone - staff and students alike - on their birthdays and graduations, so it was no surprise when a CHEESECAKE arrived in my classroom at 12:30 pm.  I cut the slices very carefully, thus ensuring that half the cake would come home with me for my later enjoyment.

That evening, Schwa-Guy took me up the street to a new Spanish restaurant called Cambalache Restaurante de Tapas.  Because my birthday fell on a Wednesday, the place was not busy.  OK, that's an understatement; we had the 40-seat venue to ourselves the entire evening!  We had never eaten tapas before.  We learned that in Spain, people often eat tapas around 5 pm and then have dinner around 9 pm.  Tapas are small dishes of food to be shared around the table.  Paul and I ordered 8 different dishes, 6 vegetarian and 2 with meat.  Our choices leaned heavily toward tapas containing spinach, garlic, and mushrooms.  Yumm!  When our host asked if we wanted to order dessert, I sheepishly explained that it was my birthday and I still had half a cake at home from my workplace celebrations.  The next thing we knew, the background music changed from a popular Spanish CD to a Spanish version of Happy Birthday!  Out came a dessert tapa topped with the cutest little candle: a miniature two-layer wax birthday cake!  We plan to head back to Cambalache for Paul's birthday in May.

Although my actual birthday didn't include Blue Rodeo, we had just been to two of the Massey shows the previous week, and I got a chance to talk to Bob after both shows.  So that pretty much counted for me.