Thirtysomething.

I woke up to the alarm clock this morning and didn't want to get out of bed.  Kenny rolled over and said, "Happy birthday, babe."  Oh, YEAH, it's my birthday!!  Upon realizing this, I somersaulted out of bed and did a dance.  I went immediately to my desk and turned on my computer, but something wasn't right.  It was moving veeerrrryyyy slooooowwwlllly.  I picked up the phone, hit the 'Talk' button and...no dial tone.  No internet + no phone = no work (aka Best Birthday Ever).  As you have probably figured out, my internet is working now, but my phone is still not and it's late enough in the day that I'm just going to not worry about work until tomorrow.  I have so far spent my day running, reading a book and buying groceries.  And I have big plans to clean out the Jeep and then make tacos for supper.  

Birthdays used to seem so disappointing to me.  They should last longer and I should see everybody that I know in the whole world and eat all of the cupcakes and drink all of the margaritas and get everything that I want without having to say anything.  Except that's not how they ever work out and they never have.  Lowering my birthday standards has increased my birthday happiness at least tenfold.  Or even more.  Ifinityfold.

My sister texted me this morning and spoke of how we are getting old.  I replied with, "We are wiser."  She said she doesn't feel that way sometimes, but I most honestly do.  More forgetful, perhaps, and much more oblivious to nearly everything, but wiser nonetheless.  Experienced at life, that's what we are.


As another year has flown by, though I am feeling ever so wise, I really have nothing profound to say today.  I am content with this life.  I hope you are, too.  It's a good way to be.  Everything seems perfectly peaceful.  And don't even say anything to me about 'the calm before the storm' because we have endured enough 'storms' this year to last at least the next ten.  This is simply the contentment that comes when you accept that life is what is and if you don't love and hug and dance in the moment, you are simply taking a dump on your own self.