Birthday wishes

Hello all you getting older by the second the first time around

I had a birthday recently. It was considered one of the milestones. 3.0. People say it is all downhill from there. Well great, I guess I don't have that far to fall. However, some people are saying that 50 is the new 30. I would not have guessed that I would make it past 25, now I am at 30. I am already falling apart. No big deal it is a day at a time.

I don't really see the big deal about celebrating the arrived out of the test tube. I am not one of those people that dread my birthday; I see no reason to celebrate. A birthday is just another chance to be disappointed. I enjoy telling people happy birthday, but I am not really a gift giver. That may be partly why I am ambivalent about the yearly anniversary. I just never think about. The older one gets the less birthdays seem to matter. There are people who go all out at certain years. However, overall, people seem to say another day where people randomly talk to you and wish you well. Most of the time I never do anything on my birthday anyway, so not much to celebrate. My parents are not real big celebraters, that may be the biggest reason, some would say, as to my birthday blahs.

Wendy loves birthdays. She had approached me for weeks prior to probe what I wanted for my birthday. I could not think of anything. Of course they is stuff I want, that I don't want. So the day arrived. I had left for work while Wendy was resting. I get a phone call from Wendy saying there was some kind of mess (crumbs and food) in the kitchen. I had wiped down the counters that morning, so I was thinking what in the world. Then fifteen minutes later she surprised me by showing up at my workplace with breakfast from McDonald's. You ask how can you be surprised by breakfast it happens everyday? Wendy had called to surprise me. She is very sneaky in a good way. She told a couple of people at work it was "big day." Birthdays are one of those things were people somewhat know about, but forget, then are reminded to acknowledge. It was good to have breakfast with my wife. For lunch my supervisor took my out to eat. The night before my brother took me out. Back to the present, that night a friend took me out because we were heading to a baseball game. That will hopefully be another story. Most of my celebrations were meals. I did not have cake on my birthday, which is fine because I had some the other day.

The thing that gets me about birthdays and technology is the updates we can now get. I received several Facebook notes wishing my happy birthday. I am not bragging. This greatly surprised me. I heard from people that I have not talked to in about two years. I guess since it right there on the homepage when somebody's birthday is why not drop a line.

All I really wanted for my birthday is for something not to go wrong. It had been one of those weeks. Looking back I cannot think of anything that went majorly wrong, so mission accomplished.