My birthday is in two minutes.

I kind of wanted to have a large party, but then when I started to organize it, I realized that doing so was going to be full of disappointments and irritations so I wisely opted to have dinner with my husband only. That will be 98% guaranteed to be a really nice evening. The 2% is just in case of things like stepping on dog poo or twisting my ankle or getting salmonella.  Remote possibilities as I only give it a 2%.  Since it is 1 a.m. in the morning, I have a whole sleep and a day to go through before my official birthday dinner.

I think it's been a pretty nice year.  We bought a house that I absolutely love.  I also like the sense that I am going to be someplace for a while.  I finally feel like I have an adult lifestyle rather than living like I just graduated from Uni.  Hitoshi was okay with hideously mismatching curtains, but that kind of stuff really annoys me after a couple of years.

Other things have been really good this year.  My only disappointments are really with my feeling that I haven't maximized the opportunities I have been given this year.  That kind of stuff is up to me.  I guess that's my challenge.  I'm pretty lucky that my husband supports me and generally gets a kick out of my crazy ideas or wild comments, and making up my own words to songs he liked before I warped them beyond recognition (a lot of that warping comes from my vocalizing).

Blah blah blah...(extreme mental laziness here)

I'm going to make myself a chocolate cake, go to the gym and finish some projects tomorrow.