Birthday Visit Back On!

I spent yesterday feeling pretty sorry for myself.  The truth is, I hadn't heard from my first father other than a text or two over the week.  I haven't talked to him in over a week, and he wasn't getting back to me about my birthday.  I got a text on Monday saying it probably wasn't going to happen, and no mention of it again in the email that he sent this week (which I got yesterday).  So it was frustrating because I was supposed to technically tell my boss by Wednesday if I needed the day off.  So yesterday hit, I hadn't asked for the day, hadn't heard anything new, and figured that there was no way we were going to be able to make things work.  Cue the chocolate.  Sorry Halloween kids, you have a few less Kit Kat bars to choose from this year.

I decided around five o'clock as I was leaving work that I was going to stop feeling sorry for myself.  I was going to pick myself back up and move forward with my life.  Why not take my birthday off anyway?  My first father offered to meet me for lunch where I work so I could still see him without taking a whole day off.  He probably only has a few hours free anyway, so why waste a whole day on that?  I could take my birthday off, hang out with my mom for a few hours, get a massage, and maybe do a little shopping.  I could keep busy enough not to remember what I was missing.  Also, maybe if my first father was stuck at home without a car he could Skype me or something.  That might be fun.  So I picked myself back up, went and got a new haircut (jury's still out on that one) and ate some chocolate.  My favorite TV show came on (Grey's Anatomy, just wish they'd take the adoption story line out), and I was feeling better.  Not fantastic, but a lot better.  And then I got the text.

"Set the date, I can make the 26th!"

So now I AM going to get to see my first father on my birthday.  I have a nice boss.  I'm sure he'll let me take the day off.  It's still over a week before the day and I'm the new kid so maybe he'll go easy on me.  I'm hoping anyway.  So fingers crossed it will all work out alright.

Plans for the day:

Meet at the mall near me because he can park his car there, it's easy to find, and it's a fun place to hang out for a bit (plus I spend a lot of time there).

Go for a drive around my hometown.  Show him where I went to school, where I played soccer, where I used to hang out with my friends (this should take all of about ten minutes because my town is tiny).

Go back to the mall and get lunch.  Most defiantly get some sort of cake for dessert.  There's a Whole Foods there with killer desserts so I'm pretty excited.

So I'm really looking forward to my birthday now.  Like seriously looking forward to it!  Yay!  Doing the happy dance now :-)