Happy 20th to Me!

Woo Hoo! 20th post on my 20th Birthday.
I love Birthdays. They are so much fun.

I'm so excited to not be a teenager any more! I plan on having a lot more fun in my twenties than I did as a teenager!

Maybe my parents will stop treating me like a kid since I'm not a kid anymore.

Almost 20!

It is exactly two weeks until my 20th birthday! I have to say I am way more excited for this birthday than last year. I'm not sure what the exact reason for this is. I have not asked for anything for my birthday, so it is not the prospect of a great gift. Although I could think of a few things that would be great to receive. (Maybe my parents finally saying yes to a trip... I know, not gonna happen.) It could be the fact that I will no longer be a teenager. Thank God! It's just too exciting.
I really want to get together with my some of my closest friends and celebrate this birthday. Maybe that's why I'm excited. Who knows. I guess we'll find out in two weeks!

Impending Birthday

As my birthday quickly approaches, I can't help but think 'why does this one not seem as important as all the others?' Usually by this time I have been counting down the days since September. This year I wasn't really thinking about it until a friend asked what exact day my birthday was on. It was the first week of October when she asked and after that I was like 'Oh my gosh, I turn 19 in like a month!' How did this one pass me by?

Sometimes I wonder, once you hit 18, is it just all down hill from there? I mean think about it. When you are a kid you can't wait to get into the double digits. Then once that happens you can't wait to turn 16, the magic driving age. And after that it's only two years before you are legal and can vote. But what's after 18? Well sure there's 21, but to those of us that aren't alcoholics, this means nothing.

Childhood birthdays were always great because you got to have a party, lots of cool toys from your friends and, of course, cake. I've never really been one to have a very long wish list, but once you pass the toys faze there's really nothing to ask for. Now my birthdays feel like just another day.

But I do look forward to going out to my favorite restaurant and having a slice of my favorite homemade lemon cake.