Happy birthday to me! I think I've probably heard from a lot of you already today, so if so, thank you very much for the birthday wishes.
It's been a nice, albeit a fairly unremarkable day. It was a working day, so I got on with some stuff for the day job, then this evening Andie and I had a veritable feast of Japanese food — we actually ordered a bit too much so we've got a little left over for tomorrow's lunch, which will be nice.
Things don't feel super different now that I'm 40, and with the day job being in a good place one of the main things in my life that was stressing me out and making me unhappy is behind me. That's not to say I don't have days where stress, depression and anxiety strike like never before, of course — you never can really shake them off altogether — but I don't wake up in the morning dreading the day ahead any more, which is nice.
I've had some nice presents; couple of video games, a book I was interested in exploring and an Amazon Alexa Echo thingy with a screen that I am looking forward to having a proper fiddle around with. Birthday money from numerous sources has been spent on fun things, don't you worry.
So while it's been a quiet birthday, I can't say it's been a bad one. And that's good; I've always been of the opinion that one's birthday should be a completely sacrosanct time of the year, so it always smarts a bit if something bad happens on it, as I've experienced a couple of times in the past.
Thankfully, none of that this year. At three minutes to midnight, I can go to bed satisfied that my first day of being "over the hill" has been a perfectly respectable one.
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