How Are You Spending Your Birthday?

I am spending mine in bed. Should be really uneventful. This is not how I pictured my 29+1 birthday. I wanted to take the day off work (check). Go shopping and buy myself presents (not check). Then go to dinner with my husband (not check). Pretty much just have a day to do what I wanted. This does not seem to differ much from any other day in my life, but lets all pretend it does. Anyone who knows me, knows that I like to stretch out the birthday celebrating. It should be a week long affair. I have no problem saying, in all seriousness, "Oh, I can't do that. It's my birthday week!"

I have successfully accomplished the first task, not by choice. This is one thing I think that everyone should do, take your birthday off. No one should have to work on their birthday. That should just be a free day by every company. Technically I could go shopping and buy myself presents, I do have the internet. But there is something about going to stores and trying on clothes and shoes, as well as holding all the little treasures that I want to take home. Dinner. Well that was not going to happen even if I wasn't on bed rest. My wonderful husband is not here. Again. I am pretty sure that this is the third birthday in a row that he is traveling. I should calrify that he is traveling for work, but it is to Hawaii. He could have at least had to go somewhere that was not paradise and suffer because he is missing my birthday. All I have to say is there better be a certain gift that I get from the Island. Nudge nudge wink wink. He knows what I mean.

It may seem like I am making a big deal out of this, but it is my birthday. The one day a year that is all about me. Again, not much different from any other day of the year. But it is the one day that I feel I am allowed to go over the top and really be all about myself.

I take back the comment about The Husband being gone three years in a row. Last year we spent my birthday at my lovely cousin's wedding. We were in Yellowstone, and then went to dinner with the family. So, he was not gone that year.

Happy Birthday to me.