celebrations

Yesterday was my birthday. I celebrated 38 years. According the call from my mother, it was sometime around 11pm, which would explain why I'm a night owl right?
There were many invitations to celebrate but the one that was most appealing was the one I sold myself on.

I spent a quiet day sleeping in, eating chocolate/peanutbutter pie and ignoring all of the phone calls. It was a beautiful thing. :) The last year has been quickly flying by, work consuming just about every waking hour, and if not work I feel the time with the tasks of keeping the girls on a tight schedule or keeping up with the house to try to get it sold so I can begin to start a new chapter of my life.

I have finally decided it is time to go back to school and finish what I have been talking about for the past 10 years. No, it's not exactly the PHD in mathmatics I thought for so long would be the feather in my cap. Instead, I will persue the "golden" MBA and move in the direction of healthcare management. So I will prepare myself over the next 2 months to wrap up the largest program my company has every undertaken, get back into the mode of learning with focus, and doing my best to say goodbye to the linger elements of cancer impacts that have been following me for 3 years.

Reflecting on another year past, and looking at the one in front of me, I am very happy with where I am and the opportunities I have before me. Time with my sister, watching my girls transform into beautiful young women, being a part of the journey of a friend from many lifetimes, falling in love again, a renewed sense of perpue through Cancer Legal Line.... so many things.

In front of me, opportunties to take a new path, be a better friend to the amazing people that are a part of my life, lead by example, determine how I want to love and not how society says I should, and be a shoulder to cry on by people who may be going through the things I went through.

If it is another year until I get a day like yesterday, I will do my best to remember it and look forward to the chance to slack off a litlte and reflect on all the celebrations I have been a part of along the way.