Birthday

I'm sure it says something about me that I can post my own birthday post on time, but I'm always late with everyone else's. However, I think that it might just say that my Speech class got out early and I had a few extra minutes to blog.

Since today's Monday and I have a full day of classes, we went out for my birthday last night. Matt and the kids took me to Golden Corral for dinner and then we went to Border's where I bought a lot of Christmas presents and Matt got mad at me and made me buy something for myself. It was sleeting and slick on the way home; we saw several cars in ditches, and at least one that was upside down and pretty badly wrecked. But my sweetie is a good driver and got us home safely.

I got the best presents ever; Matt gave me the Frank Capra collection, which includes Mr. Deeds, It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith, You Can't Take It With You, and one more (a lesser known one, I can't remember the name right now). David gave me the movie Meet the Robinsons, one of my favorite Disney movies, and we watched it together when we got home. Sabra got me some delicious Jamaican coffee and a pretty watch, and Abby bought (with her own money!) a beautiful hand-made wooden cross that is going on the living room wall as soon as we get it painted. So, it's barely noon, and it's already been a great birthday.

A year ago, on my last birthday, I set some goals for the next year, as I usually do on my birthday. They were:

+ lose 30 pounds
+ finish the first draft of my book
+ make $50,000 myself, without including Matt's income

Obviously, I didn't do any of those things. It's a bit depressing. But still, I don't have anything to complain about. I have the best life a person could have, and I often go through my days waiting for the other shoe to drop, because it sometimes seems that if someone is this happy, there must be a price to pay. I don't know if things actually work that way--I hope not, because there's nothing I'm willing to give up.

Life is good, and I am grateful to be given another year to live it.