If I’m being completely honest, I vividly remember spending these days last year being so excited that my birthday was in a few days, my closest friends would be all either coming into town, or already here, to celebrate my ability to consume alcohol legally.

This just goes to show that there really is such a transition that I’ve made over the past year or so. Especially in the past four months.

I’m not sad, just for the sake of being sad. I’ve been able to successfully live my life this past year in helping others. Hell, my parents are coming into town and they asked what I wanted to do on my birthday – I realized that my only real desire was that I wanted to take THEM to the Homeplace to experience it!

I’m more sad in the sense that there will be much less company around. My birthday festivities last year were fantastic – so many people in town, as I mentioned, similar to my commencement festivities – so many people here in honor of such a milestone, an accomplishment.

But I think it’s part of growing up – accepting the fact that birthday’s really just aren’t as exciting, as important, and as ‘ohhhhh it’s my birthday.’ I figure this birthday will be just like several after it, sort of quiet and low key.