For me birthdays have always been fairly anticlimactic. First day of school in the USA (1st grade) was my birthday, and I barely spoke English but luckily did understand when they sung to me in class (I think everyone in the world can sing it in English).
First day of Junior High, first day of High School, and first day of College... yep... all on my birthday. So needless to say generally my birthday was full of busy prep time buying notebooks, planning outfits or re-arranging furniture in my first apartment.
This year my birthday was my first day out of 13 days in a row that I did't have to work... so as in previous years the days leading up to my birthday have been filled with thoughts of everything besides the fact that today I become one year older.
So the moral of the story is that I am not a big birthday person. Not because I worry about getting older, or I don't like parties (ha!) but just out of habit of keeping them low key. Plus the only thing I know getting older has brought me is buying bigger bottles of Ibuprofen and IcyHot.
This year I mixed up it up a little... Its a big fun weekend here for my birthday! Novali and I watched the Fighting Irish take on South Florida (see previous post). Hermen, Erin and little Pippa stopped for a short visit. Plus the DeCourvals were here for the weekend and we are enjoying some nice family time. Not to mention that Heather took me out for an awesome steak dinner!
I extended my birthday into Tuesday and treated myself to Karting with my car club (www.sbrscca.org) at MRP Motorsports Park. It was a fun night and I did well! After two rounds of qualifying I was put into the "faster" race group. Nice! I was worried as it was only my second time karting, but I ended 9th of 14. No too shabby! Good way to end my extended birthday celebration.
Hopefully I won't be a photo slacker and get pics up soon!
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