Day One of Birthday Week

Today is the official start of birthday week which I started years ago to celebrate my birthday and to make it a weeklong event. I feel everyone should have more than one special day in a calendar year to call it their own, so therefore birthday week was born. Andy goes along with birthday week; however, I feel it’s only because he loves me and not because he believes I should get a whole seven days to celebrate the birth of Jaimi. Andy did say “Happy Birthday Week” to me today, so I was happy to hear that. I spent day one relaxing and floating in our pool. I also enjoyed a good book called Left to Tell and then for dinner we went to our friend Tom and Karen’s house with Andy's dad, who is in town by the way. I would have to say it’s been a great Day One of birthday week. I know we have a busy week ahead of us as there are two Cubs games to attend to, then my awesome girlfriend, Jenn, gets to town and we finalize birthday week with a fabulous birthday party. I am pretty excited about the birthday party. It took some convincing with Andy, but I am getting my party and I am thrilled. Besides spending a week celebrating my birthday I also usually spend the week slightly depressed at getting another year older. This year is not much different; however, I think the planning of the party is masking the horror of turning 29 this year. Andy is aware of this and therefore he has realized having the party was a great idea because it is keeping me occupied and therefore he does not have to listen to me whine about turning another year older. I think he was fearful of this as I was starting to complain about the number 29 months ago. Many might say turning 29 is not a big deal and I shouldn’t be whining, but it is a big deal to me. It’s my last year in my 20’s and I vow to make it a fabulous year so I can exit my 20’s with a bang…or something like that. Anyway, I will keep you posted as to how birthday week goes.