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[I'm pre-empting my weekly project 365 recap post in favor of a post regarding my birthday.  I'll probably post the recap tomorrow.  Maybe.  Maybe not.  It IS my birthday after all. :)]

(Birthday card from Beth.. I LOVE it.)

I love birthdays.  I always have.  Sometimes I think that at this point in my life, I should be one of those who doesn’t say a thing or doesn’t make a big deal out it… but I can’t.  Even this year I wasn’t that excited because I figured it’d be a bust, but as the big day got closer, I got more and more excited.  That’s just the way I am.  And if you know me, you know that.  Last night I got a text from a friend, telling me the countdown to my birthday (1 hour and 55 minutes, at the time).  Now THAT’S someone who really gets me, especially considering that mere minutes earlier, I was tweeting the hours left of being 27.

That being said… I always get super excited about my birthday, only to have it be a bit of a letdown.  I’m not really sure what I expect from the day that I always feel like it doesn’t live up to what I wanted, ah well.

Oh and by the way… You gotta love that, thanks to facebook and other social networking sites, my birthday is the one day a year I hear from some people that I haven’t heard from in… well, a year.  It’s kind of nice and then at the same time it’s like, “thanks for the wishes, hear from ya again next year”.

Anyway, the day went well.   The other kindergarten teacher brought her kids into my room so that both classes could sing happy birthday to me… plus her kids made me little cards that they stuck on my door.

For lunch we went out to Subway and they gave me some Starbucks gift cards (shows how well they know me!), and one of them made all us teachers cupcakes.  A parent of one of my students brought cupcakes for the class, and I got a balloon.

[Sidebar: I'm sure none of you care what happened on my birthday.  But recently I discovered that I cannot, for the life of me, remember what I did a few birthdays ago (and no, it was not due to excessive alcohol) so I figure that by writing it down here, I'll be able to remember for the future.]

Then, in the evening I went to get dinner and drinks with a friend at TGI Fridays, which is like my go-to spot for birthday dinners.  Seriously, I went there last year, I went there when I turned 21… I’m sure there were a few more trips in between.

So all in all, not bad.  In fact, a pretty good way to spend a birthday.

Now I just need to get over tomorrow.  I always say that the day AFTER birthdays are depressing.  That’s when all the love, the facebook posts and tweets on twitter and random “happy birthdays!” go away. But after THAT… I’m 28.. .and feeling great!  And on that note, I think I’m stopping at 28 for a while.  I refuse to turn another year old when I don’t look like my age.  So I’m staying 28 for a few years. :)

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