Growing Old & Life in General (a short re-cap)

I recently had a birthday (3/8). Hit the big 2-5....my quarter-life crisis, as I like to call it. It was a good day; not the day I had planned but, good nonetheless. Being born in March, it snowed on my birthday this year--- as it has done for the last 25 years of my life. In fact, I was born during a blizzard. Perhaps that explains my utter aversion to snow and cold climates...

Anyway, I had this big gathering planned and invited all my good friends (those still in Motown) but, it snowed so long and so hard that the roads were darn near impassable. Since I didn't want anyone I cared about to get into an accident, the party was called off. I was bummed but, my honey and I decided to improvise. We did everything fun we could think of, despite the weather: dined at Solera (my fav place to eat in Morgantown since it opened in '06), went to the mall, took crazy pictures of each other, took a walk in the snow, went laser bowling, played pool, had a few drinks and came home to watch a late movie. All in all, this birthday was a good lesson in growing older, and life in general, I think. Sometimes your plans go completely to hell but, you can still make the best of it and have fun in the process.

In other news, I'm back in the Southeast and loving it! It was in the 60's today and sunny with a slight breeze. It was so warm at noon I opened all the windows in my apartment. It apparently snowed here while I was away on Spring Break (in the snow) but, it thankfully melted before I got back. That would've just been way too depressing--- leaving snow and arriving to see more snow...ugh. The semester is RAPIDLY coming to a close and I've reached critical freak-out point. Prior to the break, I went to a Gipsy Kings concert with my good friends J and M. We had a blast! Only at a Latin music concert do people kick off their shoes, push away the chairs and start dancing in the aisles, which is exactly what happened. When they played "Volare" as the closing song, it brought the house down; people went nuts....and jumped on stage (as you can see here)--->

So, peanut gallery, what life lessons have you learned as you've gotten older?