Thirty One
Posted by admin on November 24th, 2009. Filed under: All about me, Friends and family.I didn’t realize until recently how much better it is to be 31 than 21.
Everyone worries about getting older, especially those milestone years: 20, 30, 40, 50. I was especially concerned about turning 30 once I hit 28, and I obsessed about it for the two years leading up to it. Have I accomplished everything I should accomplish in my career, in life? How do I measure up to my peers? What’s the next step?
Now that I’m over that hump I’m less worried about achieving and more about doing. Living in the moment and seizing the day are what I focus on now.
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I took the day off last Friday to spend the day with my Rene and our brood, Chuy and Sadie. Sadie and I have the same birthday, so it was fitting that we visited the dog park in the morning, where we met this handsome fellow named Ozzy:
I just love a fat Bulldog, don’t you? Especially one whose birthday also happened to be November 20. What are the odds of two bulldogs having the same birthday as me?
In the evening Rene and I had dinner at Houston’s and brought Sadie a birthday treat:
The next day I had lunch with my family. There were so many of us at that restaurant:
It was fun seeing them all and celebrating another year with them. It’s moments like these when I realize that so many people care about me and how lucky I am to have them.
