Reflections on a 28th Birthday

should i look this confused at any given moment? that was me apparently contemplating the difference between my recent 28th birthday and...well any other birthday in the last...well...5 years!

let's run a play by play to compare said birthdays shall we?

this year...(and lets keep under consideration that my birthday was even on a saturday! a saturday! i hit the b-day jackpot and let's see how i took advantage of it! ohhhh wait, i didnt!)
i woke up and had a mocha with hubby...at like 6:45 in the a.m. because i go to bed at 7:30 p.m. now because i have no energy and can't seem to keep my eyelids open past that time! we picked up the son from nana and papa and got breakfast at a local breakfast joint we NEVER go to...and now we remember why we never go there! have you ever ordered your meal and then spent the entire meal regreting your choice and longing for the OTHER thing you had contempleted ordering? only in that split second when the waitress looks at you for your order you panic under the pressure and order something you had NO intention on eating? am i the only person that happens too? i then spend the meal coveting the hubby's secure choice in his meal and eating the son's fries and ranch! anyways, back to my birthday...enough about me... lets talk about me!

so we eat breakfast...head home and the excitement really picks up...i fall asleep on the couch while hubby and son pick up the house! somebody call the fun police because we are exceeding the fun speed limit all over the place here folks! (although any woman will agree that falling asleep to your child and hubby cleaning without being asked and waking to a clean kitchen and laundry is pretty fuckin exciting)...please dont tell anyone i said that tho, i have a reputation to think about!

then at 5 the party kicked into full swing when we went to eat seafood with hubby's parents and our neice and nephew at Red Lobster. i remember when a birthday meal was someplace you needed to dress a little for and didnt involve lobster bibs...not this year. and saddest part, i enjoyed every minute of it! loved the chaos, loved the bad appetizers, the to-go doggy bags...loved it! then we played Scene It with some friends for a couple hours (which i am a f ' n movie-master at, which tells me i have a creepy grasp on memory retention or i watch too much damn t.v.) and turned in at the crazy hour of 11 o'clock! latest i have stayed up in months! really, no joke! Jealous much?

so that was it folks, 28 has come and all traces of my youth have gone...So long, Sianara!

here is my previous birthdays for comparision...shit i cant really remeber any of them to recap, but they involved massive groups of friends, loud parties of people chanting my name, limos and over flowing bottles of bubbly, fancy clothes and drunken cab rides home with crowds of people still screaming my name (mostly trying to get me to get off the top of the cab doing my teen wolf impression) ok, so none of my birthdays were that glamerous or outrageous, but they sure felt like it compared to red lobster and Scene It...

worst part, it was the best birthday i have had in years, i really enjoyed it more than the last couple years combined (maybe the ability to remember it gives it an unfair advantage)...Good bye youth, see you around sometime, probably when i have my much anticipated mid-life crisis...looking forward to it...