So last week Michael wanted to go to Nashua and confront Holly in order to get closure. This week we see Kevin eating both a Popsicle and a Nutty Buddy at the same time.

Oscar judges him with a harsh look. Kevin says, "What? I didn't eat my lunch. Well, I didn't eat all my lunch." Then Angela comes in smiling, yes, smiling and happy. The kind of happy reserved for people who enjoy intercourse. Instead we find out that she has sold the engagement ring Andy gave her and with the proceeds she bought a $7,000.00 cat. Oh yes you heard that right, a cat. As Angela puts it, "She's hypoallergenic, she doesn't struggle when you try to dress her, she's a third generation show cat. Her Father was in "Meet The Parents." Needless to say she was expensive." When Oscar asks her where she got that kind of money and she tells him she sold the ring on eBay Oscar wonders if she should have given it back to Andy. Angela says, "He would have wanted it this way." As if he's dead but more importantly, she never bothered to ask him. Creed is appalled she could have bought a kid for that much money, what a waste.

Then Angela invites everyone over to her desk in order to see Princess Lady on her Nannycam which she installed so that she could keep an eye on how her new cat is getting along with all her other cats. Angela usually takes a day or two off in order to supervise the transition but she didn't have enough vacation days. She's very perturbed that employers don't recognize new pets as members of the family and give cat maternity leave saying, "I mean somebody has a kid and oh sure take off the year." To which Meredith chimes in, "She's right I had my second kid just for the vacation." Angela stares longingly at her cats then sighs and says, "I love Princess Lady more than anyone." Kevin corrects her, "More than any cat." She corrects him back, "More than any person." At least she has her priorities straight.

Meanwhile Dwight is grilling Kelly about what she did back when she was 14 to land her in "Juvie." She says her boyfriend broke up with her so she stole his boat. She thought it would be like "Thelma and Louise" with a boat but instead it was the worst year of her life and she cannot believe she's being forced to talk about it on her birthday. Dwight points out that she said her birthday was the day before. Jim interrupts by telling Kelly he got her a cake. She sees the blank, white cake and blasts them saying, "Where's the flowers or toys? My name's not even on it. Do you even know what my name is? It's Kelly! It doesn't have a theme. What's the theme?" Jim says, "Birthday cake." Dwight says, "Frosting." Kelly says, "That's not a theme. There's always a theme." Then she leaves. Phyllis has been sitting at the break room table the whole time listening then she says, "There's always a theme." Suddenly what she did as the head of the Party Planning Committee doesn't seem so easy after all. Jim puts the cake back in the freezer. Dwight chides, "Nice job on the cake Bozo." Jim blows up and shouts, "You know what? Next time I'll let you get the cake and I get to scream at the birthday girl!" Jim is really taking this whole thing personally, good; maybe he'll learn everything he needs to know so he never screws up one of Pam's birthdays.

We finally get to see Michael posing for a photo in front of the Nashua branch sign. Once inside Michael asks if Holly is there. The receptionist tells him Holly is on a three day HR retreat. He is shocked that she isn't there. And this plot point is a wonderful example of needless financial waste in corporate America. Why does the HR person need to go on a three-day retreat during the middle of the workweek? Why does Dunder Mifflin feel the need to pay for it? Why does corporate America pay people to go on vacation as long as it pertains to their job description? And why do they call it work when it's really just an excuse to get drunk and sleep with people from other companies who do the same job? Any who, the receptionist tells Michael if it's an emergency he can get in touch with her through her boyfriend A.J. who is a salesman in the Nashua branch. Michael is stunned silent by this news.

He goes outside and cries in the cold. Pam comes out and sits next to him on the curb. He says he can't do the presentation. "Thinking about him getting to hold her, getting to kiss her." It's just too upsetting. Pam convinces him that if he does a good job then she'll hear all about it when she gets back. Michael says, "And then she'll move back to Scranton and her boyfriend will die."

Back at the office Oscar and Kevin hear cat's mating on the Nannycam. They rush over to Angela's desk to see an ugly Tomcat having cat sex with Princess Lady. Angela gets very upset claiming that the Tom is fixed and saying, "You can't let what you see here sully your image of them they are good decent cats." Then she runs home to stop the fornication.

Jim consults his list saying, "All we need is a theme and cups and ice and punch." He asks Dwight for help but Dwight is too busy putting up a very effeminate sign that reads: Party postponed until 3pm. Jim is flabbergasted. He cannot believe with all the things they need to get done that he has been wasting time on a sign when all he needed to do was make an announcement. Jim says to the office, "Hey everybody the party's been moved to 3." To which Stanley answers, "I know I read it on the sign." Jim is defeated by the logic.

Michael begins his presentation by using at least ten movie quotes like, "Sawels, sawels is what bwings us togewa tooday. How do we deal with clients who say, 'Frankly my dear I don't give a damn about paper,' and get them to show you the money!" Then he comments on how no one in the office likes the sales people. Then he asks A.J. if he has a girlfriend and if it's serious and if she ever talks about him. Pam says, "Oh God," as Michael has a complete breakdown in front of everyone. He doubles over, starts crying and crawls his way out of the office. Pam is forced to take over the presentation. She tries to save things by saying, "That was weird huh? It's all part of the presentation. It was confusing right because confusing situations happen to us all the time in our jobs. I'm just trying to bridge the gap between what just happened and the fact that I'm going to be doing the rest of the presentation." Then she launches into her best Forrest Gump and says, "Sales is like a box of chocolate, you never know what vendors you're gonna get. Forrest Gump." Oh suddenly Michael looks like a professional.

The room goes from enjoying Michael's presentation to horrified, offended and bored by Pam's interpretation of his notes. Pam tries to do the pneumonic device trick saying, "Freckles, penguin, K.D. Lang, Holly's boyfriend. These pneumonic devices help to make a connection and then also to help you to memorize names." After being met with judgmental silence she says, "I have a chainsaw." And pulls out the chainsaw from the box of tricks Michael created. She waves it around, makes a chainsaw noise and says, "Cutting down the competition." She's bombing and she knows it, awkward.

Angela's voice is heard on the Nannycam. Oscar and Kevin rush over to Angela's desk to watch her. She yells at her bad cat then makes hissing and meowing cat noises at her cats as if she is a cat. She picks up Princess Lady and begins to lick her as if she's a cat herself. She licks and cleans Princess Lady's face. Oscar asks, "Is she cleaning the cat with her tongue?" Kevin just makes a disgusted grunting noise to confirm the gross, weird perversion they are witnessing.

Michael visits Holly's cubical. He touches her yellow cardigan that she left on the back of her chair. He cuts a sleeve off and folds it up to take with him. He pushes her chair back under her desk. The impact causes her computer screen to wake up from sleep mode. He laughs at the Edward Grimley photo background on her screen and then he notices a file on her desktop that says Dear Michael. He puts in a flash drive and copies the file onto it.

Angela comes back to the office to see Kevin and Oscar at their desks and her computer's Nannycam on at her desk. She asks, "Has this been on the entire time?" Oscar says, "I have no idea." Kevin says, "I've been looking at pictures of food on my computer." Angela apologizes for being late then she coughs up a small hairball. Oscar says to camera, "I want to get that image out of my head. The psychological issues that go behind licking a cat are not things I want to go into. Also I'm pretty sure she coughed up a hairball."

Pam and Michael pack up their car. Pam says, "Don't look up." They both look up and see the entire Nashua office staring at them through the conference window as they pack up to leave. Then they sit in a diner. Michael asks Pam if she wants pie then confesses that he cut a sleeve off of Holly's sweater and that he stole a document off of her computer, a letter to him. Pam's response is surprising. At first she says he can't read it because it would be a violation of her trust because she never sent it to him. Then she says that she can read it. Michael runs to the car to get his laptop. Pam looks at the camera and say, "What? I'm not in love with her."

Jim goes down a list of themes for their ideal party which includes: "beer, fights to the death, cupcakes, blood pudding, blood, touch football, mating, charades and yes horse hunting." Dwight replies, "You're right forget horse hunting, it's stupid." Jim asks Dwight if he ever had a great birthday. Dwight describes his birth in which his mother bit his umbilical cord. Jim tells him never to speak of that ever again. Dwight explains that the Shrute family doesn't celebrate birthdays, it started as a Depression era necessity and became and awesome tradition which he looks forward to every year. Jim says his best birthday was when he was turning seven and his Dad took him to the Natural History Museum. They looked at fossils all day long and then his Dad bought him a Triceratops doll at the gift shop. Dwight thinks that any other Dinosaur is cooler than Triceratops. Of course he does.

Pam finishes the letter and deletes it from Michael's hard drive. Pam says Holly still has feelings for him, she can't give him specifics but it's not over. Michael is both relieved and happy.

Kelly arrives at her office birthday party. She thinks it looks awful. Her name is misspelled on her cake; Jim put an e in between the l and the y that shouldn't be there. And there seems to be a small piece of candy in the middle. Kelly is very disappointed. Jim says she hasn't heard to theme. She says you see a theme you don't say it. Jim says, "You get to decide on an hour of television or an hour of napping." Kelly loves it and she chooses a nap. Everyone is ordered out of the conference room so that Kelly can take a nap. Jim places a pillow on the floor and wraps a blanket around her while wishing her a happy birthday. Then she lays down under the conference room table as Dwight turns off the light and says as he's closing the door, "You've got one hour." Kelly lies on her side and, with a huge smile on her face, says to camera, "I'm too excited to sleep."

Dwight and Jim eat cake by the reception desk. Dwight says, "Hmm, great cake." Jim says, "Thanks." Ah yes, a sweet little moment of acknowledgment for a job finally well done as the two victorious men enjoy the spoils of war. Modern office war at least.

Then Dwight enters the conference room, turns on the lights and uses two metal garbage can lids to bang together and wake a sleeping Kelly. She rises and walks out of the conference room. Dwight says, "Birthday time is over now go make up for all the work you missed while you were taking your nap." Just as she walks by him and through the door he slaps her on the butt and says, "Many happy returns." Look Dwight is growing.

Michael is feeling so good about his moment of closure. He thinks he should find the fat guy from Stanford that he insulted. Pam says, "You mean Tony." Michael says, "Jabba the Hut, pizza the Hut, fat guys like pizza, pepperoni pizza, pepperoni Tony." And with one last pneumonic lesson Michael admits that he knows himself and he would never be able to apologize to Tony because the guy is too fat. How did Holly let this guy get away?

Story by Erin MacMillan-Ramirez Starpulse contributing writer

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