In the interest of being fair to birthdays, I need to add to yesterday's horrible entry that I really do enjoy birthdays themselves, taken out of the context of getting older. The funny thing is that this year I'm especially enjoying my birthday. Today one of the girls who works for me made me a cake and everyone gave me a card with very sweet things written in it. On Saturday I'm having a big party that will hopefully prove to be fun fun fun and make me feel for a few hours like maybe I'm not such a loser. I tend to generally sort of fade into the woodwork, so I feel like my birthday is a nice break from that, where I can brag to everyone that it's my special day and be the center of attention for a bit. There's something really nice about that.

So birthdays aren't so horrible, and in a way they're sort of the bright side of getting older. To me it's much more depressing to just let them go by uncelebrated.

First of all, I am absolutely stunned that Obama actually won. I can't believe it. More on that later.

Secondly, I am even more stunned that today is the last day of my 20's. Tomorrow, I turn.....*gulp* thirty years old. I have been on this earth for thirty years. In another seven years or so, I'll be middle aged.

Please stop reading now if you're bored by my constant depressive entries. No, seriously, stop reading, because you're not going to like it.

I deleted this part, because it was really too dark to share and I feel like maybe part of my problem is that I need to be more constructive and not dwell so much on these parts of my personality.

I really want to enjoy the fall this year. Fall is my favorite season, and everything about it makes me happy. The chilly weather lately has perked me up a bit (along with the vitamin B's that I've been taking) and it's a tantalizing foreshadowing of the goodness to come. I want to make the effort to do things like hiking, pumpkin picking (which I always talk about but never do), baking apple pies, and just generally getting outside to enjoy the weather. (Greg is probably gagging right now). We've decided that since most of our money is going to be tied up in our big kitchen renovation (starting Tuesday, yay!!) our vacation this year will be a road trip through New England in early October. I've never really been anywhere past Boston, so I'm looking forward to some great camping, foliage, and perhaps antiquing (there goes Greg gagging again).

And I swear, this year I'm going to be ready for Halloween.

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There comes a time when everyone, even Martha, has to go to the DMV.

No reason for this post, except that I love him.

We've watched several episodes of the show Mad Men, which despite a bunch of critical acclaim, neither of us are too crazy about, me personally because it's yet another one of these shows that's about a bunch of characters that suck, so why am I wasting my time on it? This is pretty much the reason why I generally despise most reality tv, except for the boring-but-nice shows like Little People, Big World. Pretty much the only good thing that has come out of the 45 minutes I've spent watching it is that the opening titles remind me a lot of Saul Bass. And then I was reminded of how much I love Saul Bass, and how I totally forgot about how I love him. Here are some nifty sites I've found that I recommend:


http://www.saulbass.tv/