-Birthdays are a lot like New Year's Eve in that you make a lot of promises to yourself about turning over a new leaf, only to abandon your attempts at change a few weeks later. Of course, I have no ordinary birthday coming up. In 52 days, I'm turning thirty. Yeah, it's a big one. So while my time as a twentysomething is quickly running out, I've been considering several birthday resolutions, one of which is to be less grumpy. As I wrote in Ruminations #110, I tend to sweat the small stuff. Since that time, though, I've gotten a lot grumpier, and begun sweating even smaller stuff. The first step, as they say, is to admit you have a problem. But sometimes I wish "they" would just shut the fuck up.
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