Another Year To Look Forward To!
A few days ago I had my 29th birthday and guess what? I can’t wait for next year! I don’t like to make a big deal of my birthday but I do usually treat my self to something just for fun. This year, as you can see in the photo above, I got a haircut and wild coloring 
I went to this really great salon nearby called Sprout. It is an organic salon, but yes they do have to use some chemicals in hair dye (I’m way passed my henna days! sorry). They are very nice and love to do hair styles that are a bit more… experimental.
My favorite thing to do is going out to eat with some family and friends. Don’t give me presents, I just want food But I do like getting older. I think it’s exciting that next year I will be thirty! And I love thinking about my 13 year old musings on the future. Why do we always think that when we get older things will all be figured out? That all the puzzle pieces will suddenly fit together? Well I am very glad that is not true! It would be an extremly boring life if that happened to me. Challenges are what make life exciting!
I was just talking to a friend about aging and we were both complaining about the complainers. Those people that lament getting older. “Ohhh my Goood, I’m sooo ooollld” Pa-lease! Be happy you are alive! For all the wonderful people I have loved that passed away well before they should have, I simply cannot do anything but appreciate every single day that I have.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
if anything, being in paris (and around too many straight from undergrad students in my program), i very much appreciate age. i joke that i’m an ageist now. i’d much rather hang out with older people (heck- today i had lunch with two 70-year olds). but you are so right on with your comment that we think that when we get older we’ll have it all figured out. i may be in paris now, but the same questions deep down are still there. yes, it does keep life interesting. kudos to you for doing something crazy on your bday!
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