Birthdays and Getting Older...

I celebrated my 30^th Birthday yesterday and as much as I wanted to post about turning the big 3-0 I was just swamped.  Birthdays just aren’t what they used to be when you were young.  When you’re young, the world seems to stop on your birthday.  If you’re in school, the whole day is about you, if you’re not in school, you usually are doing something crazy and fun with your friends and family.  Nowadays, you still have to go to work and it’s almost like business as usual.  My co-workers at my company did decorate the shit out of my little cubicle and made the day as special as you can but I still was swamped with work and the day kind of went as it usually does.  After work, I had dinner with my parents, which doesn’t happen all that much anymore but still nothing spectacular and then home to play some video games then hang out with the wife.  Nothing crazy but my wife is planning a big 30^th birthday party in a week or so which will be crazy and fun.  I guess it’s not really fair to compare the milestone birthdays to regular birthdays because on regular birthdays, it’s just a regular old day once you get past 21.  Maybe it’s me but all the fun and special feeling of a birthday kind of die when you get past 13 years old (unless it’s a milestone age).

There is one more thing about turning old that I’d like to talk about.  It’s all this talk about being old and how all the aches and pains are going to start coming.  Well, guess what, I already have tons of aches and pains.  You’re talking to a guy who’s had about 20 surgeries in his lifetime.  I’ve torn both of my Achilles tendons, had two reconstructive shoulder surgeries, a back surgery and about 15 surgeries on my left eye.  I’m already feeling achy and creaky; it’s as if I was a 50 year old living in a 30 year old body.  It’s the worst at night and in the morning.  After waking up in the morning, I seriously feel like I’m not going to make it.  After a couple of Advil’s and a hot shower, I’m good to go.  I’m usually fine most of the day, then I hit up the gym after work and as soon as I get home and sit down for longer than 30 minutes, BOOM, it hits me.  The aches and pains are back.  Maybe it’s me but if MORE aches and pains are in my future I’m in big trouble because I already have enough of that shit!!!