30

Tuesday I said goodbye to being 29 and as the Spanish language goes, I "completed" my 29th year. Sort of weird. I know I've been a dork about not wanting to turn 30 but I have good reason! Every year on my birthday it seems like a good time to look back over my year and kind of assess where my life is and what I've accomplished.  I guess turning 30 seemed like such a HUGE stepping stone that I expected to have "achieved" more by this age.  I don't know where I expected to be, I just remember wanting more to "show for my life".  I'm putting that in quotes because that is how I used to feel or what I used to think but I'm trying to break away from that mindset because I know it's not a healthy attitude.

This video explains perfectly how I feel about life right now.  Good 'ol Tim McGraw.
 (Instead of "beer" you can insert Diet Coke and instead of hang out with my "wife" you can insert "guy").

It's kind of ironic that the birthday I've been dreading the most just happened to be the WORST day in months.  Not because it was my birthday, it was a lot of work related stuff that just stressed me out to the max.  I also got to spend my evening at Back to School Night (which was actually really fun) but Danny was at school so it kind of sucked stunk.  I did have a few highlights despite all the stress and huge emotional breakdown (not at all related to my age).  Danny made me one of my favorite breakfasts.  Scrambled eggs with zucchini.  Oh my heavens...so delish.  I got to work and my co-teacher had balloons, a ridiculously yummy treat and a 12 pack of Diet Cherry Coke for me! She knows me so well.  I also got a birthday cake, a sonic GC, and some movie tickets from a few other coworkers.  I am so lucky to have great coworkers.  I am really tight with a handful of them.  Don't get me wrong--all the teachers at my school are amazing at what they do...but there are some who I just really click with and they really pulled through for me on an ultra crappy day.  Every time something ridiculous happened during the day, they'd just smile and say "Happy Birthday!".  I can laugh about it now  but only because I have an amazing sense of humor :)

Another fun thing about the day was reading my email when I got home from work.  I had worked 12.5 hours and was so tired I could barely move...so I sat down to some great emails.  It's funny how 74 facebook comments really made my day!! People might not think that what they're doing is a big deal, but the fact that they took the time to do it really made me smile.  This brings me the BEST gift of the day:

We're trying to keep things SUPER cheap these days and Danny couldn't have done things any better.  He spent a lot of time compiling a ton of emails that we'd been writing each other from right after my mission until while we were engaged.  It has been SO fun reading over them and remembering how things fell into place.  I have to tease Danny because I was TOTALLY sending signals and he basically wanted me to say "I love you" before he would express his interest.  His argument is that I was stressing out about a few marriage proposal from guys that I met on my mission and of course I went to him for advise so he didn't just want to bust out major flirting.  Somehow things worked out for us though :)  I actually want to do a separate blog post on how we met and our dating but it's midnight so that will have to wait for another day.

The point of this post is this:  I have an awesome husband who is very thoughtful (and that's truly all I care about!), I have awesome coworkers, family and at the end of the day (literally) I've decided that being 30 is just a fresh start.  Not the ending of a decade that can't be topped.

Cheers!