Surprise!

I am very proud of myself.

I have a friend who has believed his birthday to be cursed for as long as I have known him. And last year was probably the worst I have ever seen his birthday get. So, shortly after the new year. I made a decision. I was going to do what I could to make this years birthday for him as good as I could.

The timing of movies helped a lot. And our friend’s willingness to make each other cry.

His birthday was this past Friday. I organized a group outing after much begging and pleading and finally agreeing to not blindly be afraid of an entire month for him to agree to even do something that day. But he agreed. So a large group of friends gathered to watch Godzilla: King of Monsters. Which was really good. It still had the issue of having too many people in the movie – but there were so many monsters it kind of made up for that.

It was a good Friday night. It was a good actual birthday. And he was pleased and touched which was good.

He was also in no way prepared for Saturday.

The big part of me working hard to make his birthday good was pulling together a bunch of gifts. And a surprise party. And with help. Both were done. I am still in shock that he didn’t catch on until literally the very last second. I am not a great liar when it comes to him. I am especially not good at keeping secrets from him. But I stuck my guns to we were going to run my game and started giving some details about things that could potentially happen in the game. I “disguised” my car when I parked. He saw my car, but because none of the distinctive things were there marking it as my car. He dismissed it.

He deserved all the love and attention he got those two days. He did cry. And I am ridiculously proud I was able to pull this off.

It’s good to show your friends you love them. It’s good for them to see how much people care about them.