Chapter 32: That Special Feeling...

 Hi all,

So I must say, this weekend was pretty special. Actually dare I say AMAZING!

Some of you may know, others may not, but this weekend was my birthday. Yep getting up there with the rest of them, seems like.😝 If you don't include this past year, well actually 2 years, it hasn't been too bad so far. What I do know for sure though, seems its starting to take longer and longer to scroll down to find my birth year when im filling out forms online nowadays.😒😆

All jokes aside, well who am I kidding of corse there will be jokes, always. I had a truly amazing weekend! The past I don't know 2-4 years or so, id say i've looked forward to my birthday arriving, but once it got here it was like "oh, the wait and anticipation is gone and now your telling me I have to wait ANOTHER 365 days till it comes again?! well daymn ain't that some sh*t".  No, no, not this year my dear friends. This year I can honestly say, I truly have felt so much joy, love, support, and happiness. More than I could have ever imagined.

I think living and experiencing the past year or so the way I have, has really brought to light what is important and where my life focus should be. Turns out the cancer cliché is actually true, "the closer you are to kicking the bucket, seems the more you want to live life". Or at least maybe wake up on the happier side of the bed, a few more times than before.

That being said this year was different.  Despite things starting to open up, a la the pandemic and other things happening, seems as though there wasn't much to celebrate. Even if there was something, it was just put on hold seeing as getting a $1000 ticket just wasn't worth it. Not to mention, id rather be part of the solution than the problem, ya' know. Nevertheless, there just hasn't been anything really positive to look forward to, other than forcing myself to get out of be every morning and NOT fall on my face or walk into the wall like usual. My husband wonders why i'm not a morning person. 🙄 Like who sings in the morning, and hums while they brush their teeth, EVERY MORNING!?. Ugh! Bro, its a miracle he hasn't been attacked by a unbelievably large tiger that I may or may not have found in the parking lot outside our side door, and happened to accidentally let loose in our bathroom while he was in there.  I obviously wouldn't do this, I truly love my husband, and don't worry PETA I have no idea how to even find a tiger. Mind you I just pictured my husband and Joe Exotic doing a duet of ebony and ivory while doing their morning bathroom routine. Not gonna lie, I wouldn't mind seeing that, well until he tried to steal my husband from me. For anyone who has seen tiger king, that certainly makes sense. 😆

That being said, this year I had certain a different outlook on what "my special" day might feel like. I woke up bright eyed and bush tailed at 7:45am ready to take on the world. Well at least until I physically tried to get up and then tripped on my own foot and fell face first into my closet door. 🤦 Once I finished swearing at the door, seeing as it was obviously its fault and not mine, stoopid door.😒🚪I turned to my husband and yelled "ITS MY BIRFDAY". As to which he responded, it's not even 8am on the weekend, shut it and go back to bed. Oh how the tables have turned....I then began not only jumping on the bed like 10 year old boy trying to break this sisters trampoline, I continued to yell how it was my "birfday" while humming the happy birthday song as loud as I could. To be honest just that pay back was enough of a gift for me to last at least the next 6-8 months. Tee hee😏

Throughout the day we trekked around our area and went to a new grocery store which was a lot of fun. Well it was new to us anyway. Its one of those bougie stores that have really amazing specialized products that you wouldn't normally find other places. The funny thing is tho with those places, have you ever noticed they don't have any prices on anything? they hook you in to how amazing the products are and how bad you want them. Next thing you know you're at the cash paying $13 for a 200g glass container of granola.😐 Yeah that happened. You know what that is, I got it, those jerks catfished me! thats exactly what happened. For the "boomers" reading this and don't know what "being catfished" means, don't worry i'll break it down for you. I got chu. So they actually made a show about this on MTV, in fact called CATFISH. The premise of the show is people who have met online say they are one person but are indeed someone else. But the twist is, some of these people have been in deep romantic relationships for YEARS and have no idea who they are talking to. A few months ago I actually started watching it again from the beginning. Too good.😏🎣 Highly recommend. Mind you, the only hang up I have with that show is that why are all the catfishers plus size/chunky women. FYI not all of us are bad, just throwing that out there.

Anyway, so I got $13 granola.🤷

After that, we OF CORSE got some ice cream from Kwartha dairy. Anyone who knows me that ice cream is my lifeblood.🍦🤤 Back in the day, I may or may not have been known to double down and have one in each hand at the same time.😊😆 If your gonna do it, might as well do it correctly.

We then went for dinner and had an even better time. I was a little nervous as this was the first time we've been out to a restaurant in, well...a few years at least. it was like we were dating again, how romantic. Not to mention it was so fun to get dressed up in clothes that didn't include sweatpants and a pajama top. As im sure many of you also know too well the past few years.

But the food though! I could bathe in it.

   

All in all, it was a really amazing day. I felt so amazingly loved by so many, such a blessing. 

Thank you.💖

Until next Monday....