My mother was married by this age; my father had a one-year-old

[xenokattz]

Every year I plan to do something for my birthday. This year, I thought of inviting a whole bunch of friends to Ginger 62 and getting all prettified. But no, that would require planning on my part which is way too much energy. So instead, I'm just having the usual combined January dinner with my friends and then working. Yay?

ETA: lady_sarai broke my LJ! Best birthday present so far!