Thoughts from an older person

I’ve been a 30-year-old for more than a week! Am I feeling better about it? No. But I’m sure the exclamation point threw you off.

… Not surprisingly I worked on my birthday. I brought in cupcakes.

The next day I had two parties. The first I had with current and former co-workers at my friend Werstine’s house. It was nice to see everyone together again, catching up with how people are doing since the layoffs. The host even made me a cake and said he was going to put pink frosting on it. I said he didn’t know how to make pink frosting. So my cake had pink frosting.

During that time I received a gift that many from the Press-Telegram considered an honor for me to have. In fact, I was told the story of this figurine. I don’t want to give away what it is. I will say, I don’t know where, or if to, display this piece of P-T history.

Later that night, I had dinner with my sisters and their children. I’ve learned that if I want to talk to my sisters during this time, I have to do that before we have dinner, because once we get to the table, the kids take over. I will say that it the first time in my 30 years that I had a political discussion with my family at the dinner table. Of course, the kids led it. There was mudslinging too, “Hilary is a monster!” one child shouted.

I also received another cake. Now I had left over the first party and cupcakes from the day before. So, in total, I had half a round cake, half a sheet cake and five cupcakes.

On Friday, I saw two movies, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and the latest Harold and Kumar movie. I thought FSM was an excellent movie and it kept you guessing about what would happen. Of course, it reminded me of my failed relationship, but also showed me that I’m better off on my own. Harold and Kumar was a last second arrangement as I met a friend as other plans I had for that day fell through.

… I finally started my traffic school from the ticket I got last September. Now I’m an unintentional expert on traffic school since this is the fourth time I’ve done it, and this teacher is unlike the rest. If John Keating were a traffic school instructor, he’d be this guy. (Name that movie.) He was playing the piano telling stories and talking about everything but traffic safety, but at the same time, he was talking about it.

He also showed the typical traffic safety movies. One video was hosted by Craig T. Nelson and had MC Hammer make a speech. The other had Christopher Reeve before his horse riding accident, which I found a little ironic and that made me feel guilty.

I have eight more hours to go.

... I've just finished a shift at work where the computer system tanked. Now, you'd think that a newspaper chain our size in the No. 2 market in the country would have some sort of back up plan. Well, for the second straight day, it will be a very striped paper. It's an easy payday with free pizza included.

… People have asked why I started a blog. Well I haven’t started one; I’m just posting it where people can see it. In time I’ll repost older blogs.