My Birthday Today

Yes, it's my birthday today (as if my uncreative title wasn't obvious enough).

And yes, I decided my first post in several months was going to be this one. No 'what's up peeps'. No 'I'm back'. No explanation of what I've been up to, how my time in self-imposed exile was spent (Was it even exile? Was it self-imposed?). Just brass tacks here, people. Freaking brass tacks.

Where was I? Right, so today's another birthday. I have talked about my ambivalence towards my birthdays in another post (see here).

But, this year, my feeling towards my birthday is certain: I wish it would just be another normal day. Well, because in a sense it is. Unlike other years, today is a work day for me (believe me, I tried to get the day off) and being at work is the last way I have ever thought to spend my birthday 'day' at least.

This year, I'm at a point where even though I understand that I have been blessed beyond reason and ought to celebrate, that 'celebration' is just going to be immense gratitude and responses to 'happy birthday' with a smile that I hope will lose its dryness as the day goes on.

So, even though I wish it would just be another normal day because of emotional residues from my world-famous ambivalence and the circumstances of this particular year, don't feel bad about sending that birthday cash or even Ferrari my way!