Massive amounts of chocolate and a DVD player sounds like a perfectly lovely way to spend a non-existent birthday to me.

Aw, well it's good that he was cool with it. I pretty much told Julian the same thing. My birthday's coming up, it's next week, and I really wanted him here, but I didn't want to celebrate outside of just having him around. He was sweet about it. He said something like "Well we can not celebrate it and ignore it completely by doing something ridiculously extravagant and fun without ever mentioning the word 'birthday.'"

You know, with the whole slayer thing now, thirty actually does seem like a good goal. It was eight years ago that my grandmother died.