A few days ago my next door neighbor emailed me asking for a favor. Now I need to tell you, my next door neighbor is awesome. I totally won the next-door-neighbor lottery. If she ever moves, I'm going to sell my house and follow her. (Because that's not at all creepy...) But as I was saying... she emailed with a favor. She wanted to know if I could help her brainstorm ideas for her four-year-old daughter's birthday party. Now this is the kind of thing that I frequently offer to do for people…