Today is my birthday. I am 29.
About a month after I turned 23, I started lying about my age and told people that I was 29. Mostly the people that I told were my students. A month after I turned 23 I got married, started teaching physics at a community college, and also started working as the senior lab instructor in the physics labs at UCSD. And even though I had my Masters degree, I felt insecure with the fact that I was teaching people that were almost all older than me...so when they asked (and oh, yes, they asked) I told them I was 29. Nobody questioned it.
So today I am 29 for real.
How does a girl celebrate 29? Some good fun on Friday and Saturday evenings! And as for the actual day...today started out with an 8am cleaning frenzy...cleaning up the poop pile in the boys' usual area so that we could kick out the boys and make it pretty for Angel and her new boyfriend. The stud arrived for a conjugal visit (called a "drive by breeding" in the industry) at about 8:30am. The rest of the morning we did some work in the garden afterwards and after lunch we went to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie. After the movie, I drove Michael to the airport. He's now in DC until Friday night.
I've been pretty mellow today, just how I wanted to spend the day!
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