{"id":172,"date":"2012-10-19T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/10\/19\/obligatory-birthday-post\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T06:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T06:11:00","slug":"obligatory-birthday-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/10\/19\/obligatory-birthday-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Obligatory Birthday Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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The thing about being a night owl (I go to sleep around 5am) is that you always see midnight go by. Which can mean awkwardly welcoming in your birthday. This year, for my 25th birthday, I did absolutely nothing but the usual: reading, exercising, TV, and of course, writing! My mother baked me a cake that looks nowhere near as cool as the one in the pic (but it was orange!) but was delicious all the same. Especially with a scoop of Dairy Queen soft serve. Oh, God, my blood sugar. So worth it.<\/p>\n

It’s kinda weird to think that my life is probably more than a quarter of the way over now. And yet 25 doesn’t seem to be a milestone birthday…although I can rent a car now! (Darn, if only I had a license.) Of course, as an adult I have to sit here and think about what a waste of space I am at 25 in my wandering, confused generation of recent grads in a nosediving economy. Hey! No job! Hey! No relationship! But before I feel compelled to go get drunk on my birthday to say that at least something happened like puking in the bath tub<\/strike> I reminded myself of all the life dreams I’ve accomplished so far, even if at the time they didn’t feel like much. Short off you know, the apocalypse, or getting kicked out of my house, or what have you, things can only go up from here and I look forward to what the next 25 years of my life brings!<\/p>\n

I don’t really have a choice, I mean.<\/p>\n


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