It's My Birthday! I'm 25!

So today is my 25th birthday and I got mistaken for a high schooler. Isn't that grand?

Well let's start with the beginning of the day. I walk into work to see the BacT/ALERT (a critical piece of equipment) beeping and flashing with all sorts of error messages. Come to find out, the power has gone out yesterday evening and the damn battery that is supposed to back this thing up has a piece broken so it didn't do it's job. We have 120 samples on this damn thing so this isn't exactly good news. So I proceed to spend the whole day on the phone finding out how to fix it, trying to track down a service agreement to get it fixed, deciding how to proceed with the samples in the machine, checking the graph on the computer for all the samples and starting to write a deviation form for EVERY item in the damn machine. Basically it took up my whole damn day.

Oh, and we went out to lunch at Potbelly. Therese insists that she pay for my lunch, ok, fine. We get to the register and her card isn't working, turns out she lost her credit card and had to deactivate it, and at the same time the credit card was deactivated, the debit card was deactivated too. Alas, she didn't bring her purse and had no other card. Well, I have my purse so I whip it out to pay. Not only did I pay for my own lunch but I paid for Therese's lunch too. Awesome.

My evening plans including going to dinner with my old gymnastics coach then going to the gymnastics district meet. While I am there I am approached by a high school kid and asked, "Are you from Battlefield?"
"No" I reply.
"Which school do you go to?" He then asks.
I respond with "Nowhere, I graduated."
Let me tell you, it really made me feel fantastic. I mean, I know I look young, but seriously, I'm 25. I'd like to think that I at least carry myself with a bit more of a mature and adult air then some punk ass high school kid.

So pretty much all in all it was a pretty crappy ass birthday. Especially after last year when I was in Belize swinging through trees on a zip line and floating on a river through a cave on an inter tube. I guess it wouldn't have been so bad if I at least had someone to spend my day with, a man, or even a good friend, but alas, no. People are busy or far away. Maybe next year. Man, I feel like I'd be so much farther ahead in my life at this point than I am. I still feel like I'm a kid, but on the other hand I feel like such an adult, it's a weird, disconcerting feeling. Confusing, very confusing.

But hey, at least I can rent a car now without paying exorbitant extra fees.

Happy Birthday to me.