My birthday

My birthday is on March 5th. It is a great time of year to have a birthday. The days are getting longer, trees have begun budding, early flowers are blooming and the spring equinox is right around the corner on the 20th.

My birthday was on a Saturday this year. I celebrated with friends at a really delicious Vietnamese fusion restaurant, Monsoon East, in Old Bellevue on Friday night. Saturday was a mixed martial arts (MMA) event at the Snoqualmie Casino with a modest amount of gambling—I like gambling, but I hate losing money so I almost never gamble. I had a burger at the Twin Peaks Café (Twedes) in North Bend and brought home a slice of their awesome cherry pie for desert.

Tonight I am going the Space Needle with my roommate Elma and her daughter Leah. They have never been up in the Space Needle. It has been a couple of decades for me. It will be fun.

I stretch my birthday out over weeks as a part of my recovery. Instead of having one perfect moment that I immediately want to last forever, I have a bunch of pleasant events with friends. That works really well for me so that one perfect moment is not a make or break event for whether or not I had a good birthday. Now I always have good times on my birthday.

I am grateful for the increased wisdom and serenity in my life as I get older.