Happy Birthday… to Me

Wow, I guess a blog offers me the platform to be a bit self-indulgent, wishing myself a happy birthday to whoever stops by. Kinda cool. In all seriousness — well happy, joyous seriousness! — this birthday post is a thank you to all of you who commented and read my birthday dilemma Vent Sesh post on Wednesday. I apologize that I haven’t had the chance to reply individually (I will!) however your posts made me realize that while I am stuck with some health issues, I need to rock this thing!

What happened to me, happened, and while crappy as it was, it has subsequently afforded me some of my biggest gifts: time with my family, my own business (and my own schedule!), this blog, meeting all of you, yada yada, I could go on forever. Had I not had that awful situation, who knows how long it would have taken me to fully create my own destiny. Take Jodi’s favorite words as wisdom: a year from now, you will wish you had started today. Have you given yourself a push??

For my birthday: taking my daughter to music class, followed by brunch (can I get the birthday pancake pictured above, please?! YUM!), then going to see Hunger Games (SO excited), with dinner with the amazing husband at III Forks. Pretty damn perfect for a girl who just two years ago was (excuse my language) scared shitless I’d never walk or write my name never again.