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geminigirl ([personal profile] geminigirl) wrote2005-05-23 12:42 am

On Turning Thirty...

Someone asked me last week if I had any feelings on turning thirty (which I'll do on 5/27.)
I replied, "I don't, really. If I didn't have the wedding, and (other project which isn't public knowledge yet) I might be, but I'm so focused on other things that I just don't have time to think about it."

That's semi-accurate...I haven't given much thought to turning thirty. Part of it is being so focused on other things that I have coming up. Part of it is being happy with where things are at. Turning 26 was hard, but I was unhappy then. No wonder I was unhappy about my birthday.

Tell me about your birthdays? Tell me which years were hard for you to face, and which ones you looked on with joy and excitement.

[identity profile] danger-chick.livejournal.com 2005-05-23 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
My suggestion to you: act like a complete idiot on your 30th birthday. My best friend told me to queue my favorite song before I went to sleep the night before my birthday. Then when my alarm went off, I was to turn on the song and jump up and down on the bed. I now celebrate all my birthday mornings dancing on my bed, which probably why it started falling apart....

As for hard birthdays, 32 was difficult. I had just gone through a major breakup two weeks earlier and was moving out my apartment. Plus, I had the feeling of "there's no stopping it...my thirties are coming through." When I told my advisor that, she laughed so hard that I think she fell out of her chair.