YKYW - Nursing Student Blog

I must really be getting old.

Its my birthday weekend, and I haven’t been smashed, taken off my clothes in the ‘wrong’ places, or danced on any speaker boxes. Is this the first stage in becoming an old fogey?

Yesterday, I went to this little Mexican bakery for breakfast. Pumpkin filled pastries - Yum! The I went to the beach and laid out in the sun. We took a walk down the beach and ran across this hoard of those little tiny clam like things (I’m not sure what they really are). As the wave would wash away, they would be exposed. Then, all the ’shells’ on this little piece of beach would stand on end and dig their way down into the sand. For some reason, I found this oddly sad and fascinating. I musta watched it happen 20 times. I figure there must be some reason they are not way out in the ocean so that they never get exposed. Do they need to breathe real air? Do they have to come to shore to mate? Hmm. Things to ponder.

OMG. I just realized, its been two years since I have had sex on the beach - and I live by the ocean! This needs to be remedied!

After the beach, I went and took a shower. My roommate got a new grill, so we figured we’d break it in in style!! I wanted to try a new marinade for the steaks — Google to the rescue! I found this really awesome marinade with apple juice, Worcestershire, coarse ground pepper, Italian seasoning and garlic. We got these HUGE rib eyes (like a pound each) and marinated them for about 2 hours. We sat outside, had a few frosty beverages and listened to tunes. While we were waiting for the grill to get ready, my sister called to wish me a happy birthday. Then she put me on speaker phone and my two nephews (1 yr old and 2 yr old) did the cutest rendition of happy birthday. The always get so excited to talk to me. The oldest one said ‘I wov you’ I told him ‘I love you too’ and he kept saying ‘I wov you too!’ And I could hear the younger one ‘wov you’ in the background. I was smiling, for sure

After some truly yummy steaks, I decided tipsy TTO was the way to go A friend of mine called and her whole gang sang Happy Birthday to me. It was really awesome. I wish I could have recorded it I think you tell any kid to sing happy birthday, and they will ALWAYS get excited. The kids didn’t even really know me and they were STILL getting into it Thanks, sweetie - I’m still smiling over that one!

I don’t think getting to be an old fogey is such a bad thing after all - not with friends and birthdays like this one.

Oh, yeah - and I’m gonna get pampered! (Thanks Jac)