Yay, it’s my birthday!
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to meeee! Happy birthday to me!
Yep, today, April 1st, is my birthday. You know, April Fools day. And yes, I am expecting to hear a lot of the same lines, like being born for a joke. I’ve heard that one a lot. But yeah, today is a great day, a day of not just celebration of getting older, but also a chance to think back and see how things have been lately. I actually don’t normally do this (and I promised a while back to not write about myself on the Daily SPUF) but I’m going to talk about how life has been getting a wee bit better, all things considered.
Honestly, it all does kinda feel like falling off a skateboard and landing in freezing water. But in a sort of weirdly good way. 2022 so far has zoomed by and I’m actually astounded by how it’s April already. Christmas 2021 feels like it was only a few weeks ago, and all of a sudden, April has arrived and it’s my birthday.
What’s weird though is that, well, I wasn’t even sure if I would make 30. The last two years, being 28 and 29, were bloody awful, and I lacked the strength to better myself. Wasn’t until May 2021 that I found enough inner strength to actually start making changes in my life. The rest of 2021 dragged on but I found myself not really making progress until November and December. After much loneliness, someone convinced me to try dating apps, especially since a good chunk of people I knew had all had good results. The end result was, amusingly enough, pretty good, enough to arrange a date after the Christmas break. That ended up with me getting both a boyfriend and some self confidence.
All of that happened in February and March this year. So yeah, it’s April now and things are going pretty well. For a change.
The last dreaded thing is me being another year older. How old am I now? Well, today marks 30 years of existence. I’ve been alive for three decades now and am somewhat still mostly in one piece. But I definitely don’t feel like I’m thirty though, I feel both old and young. Luckily, I look a bit younger than I actually am. It’s mostly my baby face and how short and chubby I am.
However, turns out, I still have a squeaky kid voice. To the point that the last few times I heard voice chat in Warframe, the people already using voice chat called me a kid. I think that is just something I’ll have to live with, sounding like a young boy with my mediocre microphone. So I can at least get away with lying about my age. Not that I need to, just a thought.
I’m still rather shocked that I’m 30 now, and I was genuinely dreading turning 30 last year when I turned 29. This year though, I am a tad more accepting of it. Things are just all-round slightly better for me.
At the end of the day though, 30 is just a number like any other. However, April 1st isn’t just a normal date. It’s my birthday, and I’m off to celebrate the fact that I am still here. How do I plan to celebrate? No idea, I’ll figure something out.
In the meantime, I think I’ll just go build something out of Lego. Because why the fuck not.