Yes, folks, it’s the Best Day of the Year once again!
Birthday
The Beatles
You say it’s your birthday
It’s my birthday too–yeah
They say it’s your birthday
We’re gonna have a good time
I’m glad it’s your birthday
Happy birthday to you.
Yes we’re going to a party party
Yes we’re going to a party party
Yes we’re going to a party party.
I would like you to dance–Birthday
Take a cha-cha-cha-chance-Birthday
I would like you to dance–Birthday
Dance
You say it’s your birthday
Well it’s my birthday too–yeah
You say it’s your birthday
We’re gonna have a good time
I’m glad it’s your birthday
Happy birthday to you.
Life’s been nothing short of eventful since I turned 30. The day I turned 30, I wrote an amazing letter of resignation in which I called my boss a “self-serving, self-aggrandizing grifter” and went off to start my own little consulting firm. I went on an amazing trip to Japan just before my 31st birthday. Almost exactly midway between my 31st and 32nd birthdays, I played the accordion in public for the first time, a life-changing event in so many ways. I accidentally made out with a nineteen-year old before my 32nd and had an even more amazing trip to Prague shortly after. I packed a record-breaking number of people at my 33rd birthday party (which came complete with a fireworks display, courtesy of my friend Chris) and moved to San Francisco shortly afterwards. A small but significant number of the wrong girls (wrong in the sense that they were seeing friends of mine, completely nuts, or both) admitted their crushes on me during some awkward (but fun in that perverse sort of way that a guy like me would appreciate) moments during my 34th birthday party.
I’m sure I’ll do some more self-indulgent nattering as the week goes on. Hey, it’s my blog and I can do whatever the hell I want. In the meantime, here are some pieces I found using Google on turning 35:
- Howard Greenstein: Reflections on Turning 35
- Lynette Chiang: Turning 35 in Edinburgh
- M. Figueroa: turning 35
- No Jerry-atric: The Raiders’ Jerry Rice has caught 35 touchdowns since turning 35
- Monica Bradlee: Happy Birthday to Me!
Before I go, a quick excerpt from a Smash Mouth song, Let’s Rock:
Lately I’ve been thinking about the past
About the good times
And have they all come and gone
And are there more years behind than ahead
Then I say to myself
“Fuck it, let’s rock!”
My sentiments exactly.