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It’s my birthday bitches!🤍

My first birthday since getting sober and it feels freakin’ fantastic! I have always loved my birthday. I unapologetically soak up all the glory of December 28th being the one day a year that is all about me!

I’ve had a good amount of pretty epic bday celebrations. When we were kids, my sister and I would wait until summer to celebrate and have one huge joint pool party at the end of the school year. I think one year there was a carnival theme (my parents are the absolute best). On my thirtieth birthday, hubby and I went on a sleigh ride on the coldest day of the year, and it was one of the most magical yet, frigid nights of my life. I had plenty of weekend-long celebrations at bars, parties, casinos, mini-vacations and everything in between. I’ve also spent a number of those birthdays getting completely wrecked, yelling “it’s my birthday bitches” as loud and obnoxiously as I possibly could, and not remembering a good portion of them. Birthdays were always the best excuse to get completely shmammered and oh how shmammered I would get.

This birthday weekend was much different yet just as epic. For one, I’m not going to be epically hungover tomorrow.

Thursday night, Dylan (hubby) and I went to the Strasenburgh Planetarium at Rochester Museum and Science Center to see Mesmerica 360 (separate post to follow). Before the show, we went out for food & drinks (N/A for me of course); I got dolled up and looked pretty, the food was delicious, and the show was absolutely incredible! I felt electric, and present, and so alive! And we were home before 10pm.

Last night, I went to my sister’s house and hung out with her, my ma, baby Lena & Anthony (sister’s BF & Lena’s daddy). My cousin Ralphie came over to visit which was a real treat. I haven’t seen since last football season when we went to a new Raiders bar for a game. He had to remind me what bar it was we went to and no chance I remember if the Raiders won that game or not. Needless to say, this visit was a completely different change of pace. He met Lena, we ate snacks, got to catch up and reminisce on childhood memories and my heart was warm & fuzzy.

Today, I woke up to a text from Sare (sister) who always manages to wish me a happy birthday right at midnight every single year. I also had a cute/funny card & a pair of birthday socks waiting for me along with “happy birthday” love written on my mirror from the hubs. He also had a second, perfectly worded, heartfelt card waiting in the truck for me to read on the way to work.

Even though this was the first birthday I’ve ever not taken off of work, I was happy to spend it with my Wegmans peeps. I walked in to find a cookie cake, a couple sweet, thoughtful gifts & a birthday card from my fave coworkers. I felt so special. I think they really like me 🥰.

After work, and, an impromptu visit from my mom and dad, I got my wild birthday night started with a hot bath filled with new bath bars we got for Christmas. I lit some candles, read a couple chapters in a hugely insightful book, and soaked for a good hour. It was absolutely lovely! I took the next couple hours to do some layout editing on this here blog (because I’m neurotic and have to change every little detail a gazillion times) and just as I was getting ready to start my birthday feast, hubby called; he got out of work early and made it home in time to help with dinner. We made an epic seafood pasta bake and listened to music while we cooked. It was the perfect way to end a perfect day.

And that’s it, there ya have it! Another birthday in the books, another year in my timeline. My first birthday blog post and my first birthday spent sober.

I’ve had some incredible birthdays, a lot of great years, and now, I have a whole new perspective, and another year ahead! I didn’t want to say some cliche thing about having so much to look forward to in this next trip around the sun, but, it really does ring true this year. During the last half of thirty six & sober, I learned to love the person I’m becoming and I couldn’t be more excited for what’s to come! More growth, more love, more knowledge, more peace, more life worth living. The view from thirty seven & sober is pretty fuckin stellar ⭐️ Cheers bitches! 🤍