This is gonna be a ranty blog, just so you know.
Yup, I'm going away for a week again. This time, I'm heading home for my birthday! Home being 4 hours North of the City of Fillion...er...I mean Edmonton, pretty much in the middle of no and where. It's a city in the middle of the forest and the nearest city is 4 hours away. Kinda sad, but, that's where I grew up. My parent's were kind enough to offer me a plane ticket as my birthday gift. I figured that I needed to be surrounded by family for this birthday (quarter century) because I already seem to be going through a quarter-life crisis, so I got the time off. I know, I'm not old, but this age seems to hit me in an odd way. I'm not old, but I'm not young. All my friends are getting married and having kids, where as I'm not doing either. I do have a long-term boyfriend whom I love very much, but neither of us are ready for marriage. I want a baby, but I don't at the same time and the biological clock is already ticking. I have trouble partying the whole weekend away like I used to. I'm supposed to be starting my career and settling down, "growing up". Geez, I think I'l be 40 and still not grown up. It's just weird to be stuck in between like that. I thought after the pre-teen thing it wouldn't happen again. Guess who was wrong? I don't know if everyone goes through this sort of thing. My best-friend did, and my boyfriend had his version of this, and I know my mom went through this (probably why she offered to bring me home for a week), but has anyone else suffered through, or are we just crazy?
Anyway...with that out of the way, I've very excited. My sister and I are having a double birthday party for the first time. She'll be away at University for her birthday. We've decided that for our party with family and friends, we want pie. Lots and lots of pie. Many different types of pie. Meal-type and desesrt-type. I've been drooling over that thought for 2 weeks now! And on my actual birthday, we're ordering chinese food and having a Firefly-a-thon (chop-sticks included). I so can't wait for the weekend. 
Talk to you all when I get back! Don't do anything I wouldn't do 
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Anyway, have a great trip!
tjaman
And in all reality, I have a sort of real salary, but the other life stuff isn't happening. And I'm just about done assuming it's my fault somehow because I'm involved in things in my day-to-day life and I have been for years, and I have met people through church and theater and so forth. They just already happen to be married or are unacceptable dating material for one reason or another.
Maybe in a couple of years when I'm 40 and all of my bills are paid off things will be somewhat easier. For now, I've decided it's ok to be alone, and that's just going to have to be ok for the foreseeable.
Your birthday party sounds like it's going to be a blast. Have lots of fun!