Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday to me!
Oh my God I'm 30!!
Happy birthday to me!

Here's to 30 rough and tough years of growing up and figuring out who I am. Still not sure but I know what I'm not. My hair's just as dark as it was 30 years ago, though its a bit longer and there's a few strands of silver in it now. I survived babyhood, toddler-hood (with a few memorable scars still showing), tween-hood, and teen-hood (not quite sure how I did that) and even made it through the 20s without embarrassing myself too badly or ending up in the pokey. I still don't have a college degree (only two years left though!), still haven't gone sky-diving, skiing, gone to a music concert, or visited Europe.

I've had a career with one of the top computer software companies in the world (who needs a degree?), lived in many different places and have bought a house; own two cars outright, married a wonderful man and gave birth to the world's most beautiful and intelligent baby (hush, your baby is perfect too). I've seen fire and flood, swam in glacier melt and with sea turtles; eaten snails and frogs and things best left unsaid...and I'm not old yet!

Here's to the next 30 years! To watching my baby grow up, to finishing college, to learning more about myself, to being a good friend and a good mother, to having fun, eating good food, and laughing till I cry!