{"id":695,"date":"2007-11-19T03:09:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T08:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=695"},"modified":"2007-11-19T03:09:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T08:09:38","slug":"its-my-birthday-yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"it’s my birthday, yo"},"content":{"rendered":"

today is my 23rd birthday… but man i feel older than that…<\/p>\n

is it normal to get less excited about birthdays? i just think about how i used to get really excited about my birthday. count down the days, plan the parties and be so excited the night before that i couldn’t even sleep. i find that as the years progress, they become more “just a day”. i almost find more joy in seeing other people excited about it being my birthday than i do about it being my birthday. why?<\/p>\n

in trying to think of a post for today’s occasion, i decided to come up with 23 happy memories from my birthday past. follow me down memories lane (but please note these are not chronological… just simply 23 memories i could think up):<\/p>\n

23: pizza hut (birthdays were the only time of year we were allowed to eat out growing up)
\n22: free ice cream from the banskin-robbins postcard in the mail
\n21: the same birthday card 3 years in a row from one of my grandmas
\n20: backstreet boys concert on my birthday
\n19: having flowers delivered to school or work
\n18: hotel birthday parties (thanks for working there & getting free rooms brad)
\n17: bowling party (my first co-ed birthday party)
\n16: 21st birthday party i …err… anne<\/a> threw for me.
\n15: chocolate fountain<\/a> (see #16)
\n14: westside student lock-in on my birthday
\n13: mom eating lunch with me at school
\n12: announcement on the school intercom (seemed like i was always the only birthday on the 19th)
\n11: david crowder with jennifer
\n10: little debbie’s with candles<\/a> to brighten a bad day i didn’t know was coming (thanks megs)
\n09: merle making me sing “happy birthday” to myself, up front at staff meeting.
\n08: handmade signs down monticello road with notes and balloons on my locker
\n07: coolest present ever<\/a>… and still have it (thanks kristi<\/a>)
\n06: birthday scrapbook<\/a>
\n05: ice skating… ice skating… ice skating (did i mention i turned down the junior olympics? lol)
\n04: Can Jam & the Sonic Flood serenade
\n03: californos with megs
\n02: facebook wall comments
\n01: traditional birthday lunches with becky (i miss you)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

today is my 23rd birthday… but man i feel older than that… is it normal to get less excited about birthdays? i just think about how i used to get really excited about my birthday. count down the days, plan the parties and be so excited the night before that i couldn’t even sleep. i… Continue reading it’s my birthday, yo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box-of-chocolates","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}