{"id":48729,"date":"2022-04-19T09:09:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48729"},"modified":"2022-04-22T09:09:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:09:37","slug":"how-i-spent-my-40th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48729","title":{"rendered":"How I spent my 40th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mythical wife, my brother and several close friends and I actually celebrated my birthday this past weekend.\u00a0 Because my birthday fell on a Tuesday which is probably the worst day for a birthday to ever fall on, it made sense to do stuff on the weekend before.\u00a0 It was a pleasant time to hang with people I love and eat and drink while my in-laws watched the girls.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was probably for the best because as far as my actual birthday has gone, there wouldn\u2019t have been any time for well, anything.<\/span><\/p>\n

#2 is sick with strep where I\u2019m probably prime suspect to have been patient zero that got her sick.\u00a0 Subsequently, the new nanny got sick and didn\u2019t come in, so as is the case when someone is sick, I had to eat the day and work from home and take care of both girls all day, and get no work done and miss the gym when I\u2019m trying to stay on something of a routine.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, being my birthday I refused to let myself get upset or fall into disappointment because nobody wants to feel either on a birthday.\u00a0 I made the best of my day, and thankfully my workload could permit it, and I actually had a pretty pleasant day with my kids before the sickness started to really overtake #2.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless of the circumstances and minutiae, I did get to spend my birthday with my daughters.\u00a0 At the end of the day that is what matters and it\u2019s always time well spent.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this is how I bring in my 40\u2019s.\u00a0 I knew I would probably end up writing some sort of drivel for the occasion, and all I knew was that I was going to compare it to how I ushered in 30, where I was discovering a donut burger in Midtown in comparison.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aside from the fact that I moved out of my old house and into a new one, met a girl that would have me, marry her and have not just one, but two kids, not much else really feels like it\u2019s changed between 30 and 40.\u00a0 I still brog, I still watch wrestling, collect blets, casually follow baseball, it\u2019s just now I have my own family interspersed among it all, and my days are packed every day.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t make big deals about birthdays, even supposed milestones like 40, because i don\u2019t want to get my hopes up in the event things go tits up.\u00a0 Frankly if I were a more selfish person a day like today might\u2019ve constituted tits up but perhaps I\u2019ve grown or my priorities have changed to where I recognize a day with my girls as good in every way shape or form.<\/span><\/p>\n

Otherwise the only real things I feel like I need to concern myself with other than the litany of old jokes I can make about myself is to better take care and be cognizant of my own health and well-being.\u00a0 But a day like today, even if it is the only 40th birthday I\u2019ll ever have, just feels like any other day.\u00a0 Same overload of chores, childcare, feeling overworked and having no time for myself. \u00a0Except I made a very conscious effort to not give into the usual feeling of despair.<\/span><\/p>\n

Except if I\u2019m lucky, I\u2019ll get some cake to eat and some gifts to open up.\u00a0 But bring on 40; I\u2019ve got not intention of slowing down at the gym and I\u2019m determined to get my running speed back to where it was pre-pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mythical wife, my brother and several close friends and I actually celebrated my birthday this past weekend.\u00a0 Because my birthday fell on a Tuesday which is probably the worst day for a birthday to ever fall on, it made sense to do stuff on the weekend before.\u00a0 It was a pleasant time to hang with … Continue reading How I spent my 40th Birthday<\/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":[1],"tags":[67,100,71,56,99,49],"class_list":["post-48729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-birthday","tag-comparison","tag-famiry","tag-food","tag-reminiscing","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48731,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48729\/revisions\/48731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}