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December 29, 2006

Happy Birthday Self

Today is my birthday. It has been for a whole hour and nine minutes. I feel a little blue about getting older, but my policy has always been to age as gracefully as possible, not try and hide the fact that I'm losing hair or getting wrinkley... it's as whoever made me (be that deity or evolutionary science) intended.

To celebrate I scored myself 5 days off from work which I like to refer to as a "vacation." Unfortunately things didn't work out as planned because I'm sicker than a dog, so I will not be going to Idaho as intended, or even Seattle as was the backup plan.

I will likely be getting violently ill like I do each year either on X-Mas or my Birthday and spend a good portion of it in the hospital.

Growing up is kind of odd. I'm the one who brings home the bank now. I don't have to look up to anybody to buy me really great gifts that I wait all year for. In fact, I rarely have to wait more than a paycheck or two for anything I want. It really mellows out the holidays when you aren't kept awake at night in anticipation. I was one of those annoying kids who couldn't sleep at all Christmas Eve. I would get up at like 5 in the morning, pound on my sister's doors to wake them up so we could unwrap presents. I made unwrapping a stronger verb.

Now, I honestly don't care whether people buy me things or not. It's a really nice notion, but I hate when people spend lots of money on me. I think I inherited that from my dad who would flip if you bought him anything other than a pair of socks or some pajamas.

It will be the first year that he doesn't call me up and tell me about the day that I was born and how he was caught in a blizzard and so on. I think I'll miss that most about him. It'll take time for things to feel normal without him around.

I should probably sleep some though because I have to get up somewhat early to renew my Driver's License tomorrow. LOL I should totally have done it weeks ago online when they sent me the stupid reminder but now I actually have to go to the DMV. God save me.

Later All!

Posted by Decemberice at December 29, 2006 01:16 AM

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