Born in Atlanta, Georgia at 12:35 Eastern on September 29th 1981, I am now over 30 years old.
I had a nice birthday. I wasn’t able to take the afternoon off as I have in years past since I have a lot of travel coming up and we’re very busy right now. As soon as I finished work we popped in Logan’s Run for the obligatory “I just turned 30” watching. Afterwards MJ took me out to a spectacular three-course dinner at Fleur De Lys, just beyond Union Square:
Chilled Dungeness Crab Salad: With shavings of young vegetables, lobster infused vinaigrette and lobster fodant with caviar
Seared Filet Mignon with a Lobster Truffled Mac & Cheese “En Brioche”: Accented with a red wine, shallot, thyme bordelaise sauce
Mirabelle Plum Soufflet
The dinner and dessert was then accented by a special birthday dessert platter (photo below) and another plate of treats — phew! Yum! We also added the house selection of wine pairings, which ended up being a great decision.
Decade birthdays are always big ones, but I have to admit that this decade birthday sorta snuck up on me. The first inkling that there would be life changes because of it came when I went to sign up for the fitness & pool club I recently joined and didn’t qualify for their “under 30” young professionals rates (drat!). I’ve had vague feelings of “aren’t I supposed to have kids by now?” and age 30 is kinda the deadline for when some of the major psychological problems that run in my family should have manifested if I were to get any of them (woo, I’m FREE!). There is also the family story on my mother’s side that while we all always look younger than our age (certainly true of me), 30 is the age when your body revolts against you and you suddenly have to pay much more attention to diet and put more effort into exercise to stay healthy — this is probably true, but I’m ready for it!
Thanks to everyone who sent good birthday wishes, the explosion of social media these days has made sure that my birthday is not forgotten …not that I allow people to forget, I’ve always been a very “HI IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!” type :)
I’m posting this from the airport in San Francisco, in a little bit we’ll be hopping on a plane to Phoenix to spend the weekend with my family.