This weekend was my birthday! Another year older, but probably not another year wiser. I think that when you are a kid - you know 8 or 9, you get increasingly smart with age - learning new things. I'm not talking about life experiences. And then, I think there must be a peak. I feel like the older I get, the more things that I had learned I forget. My life experience knowledge grows, but all the other stuff seems to get mushy-er. (Is that a word? Well it is in MY WORLD, And that's how I'm gonna spell it dammit).
Case in point: Over the last few weeks I have been working on really crunching some raw data at work to establish a means of evaluating productivity and trending performance and growth as well as creating a measurable way of looking at risk. Blah Blah Blah, I'm so important. In order to do this I had to sit back and take the time machine into the year 1993. 15 years ago. It wasn't that I didn't understand my data or anything like that, I just couldn't remember coefficients, means, medians, standard deviations, regressions, etc etc. UGH. Here it is folks... you know that stuff in class in High School and College Math and Stats that you think you are never going to use ever again? Remember how your teacher said that it could be applied to practical everyday things? Remember how you sat there in class and thought... Yeah RIGHT! Well, I am here to tell you that it is true. From the recesses of my brain I painfully retrieved what I could remember and then had to refer to the abundance of topics on the Internet to fill in the gaps. Shh.. .don't tell anyone. Yes, we all know how much RELIABLE data there is on the Internet. God help me, hope I picked the right sites to refresh my knowledge.
So, needless to say, as I get older, I feel like I get dumber in the Academic sense.
So, on to more important things.... What Did I do for my Birthday? Well, I took a half day off work. Went to the spa and got my nails and stuff done. Then went to Fernando's house. (Side Note: Something you should know about me, I use the word HOUSE to mean any of the following things: apartment, condo, town home, single family home, duplex, igloo, hut...) I arrived to Happy Birthday balloons on the front door. After arriving, Fernando opened a bottle of Champagne and we had some cheese and crackers with the bubbly stuff. Then it was on to dinner - Chicken Parmesan, Broccoli and Garlic Bread. YUM. It was really good! Fernando gave me a Mets Hat, Softball Glove, and two cool books. I loved all of it! Then, there was cake! He tried to use trick candles but I spotted their flickering immediately. I AM THE PRO OF THAT. He thought he was being all tricky but that is MY TRICK so I knew immediately what he was trying to pull. That didn't stop me from trying to blow them out. (Coulda been the Champagne and Wine too that caused me not to stop trying).
My favorite quote from Bday Weekend: Gabriel my neighbor says to me "29 are the best 10 years of a woman's life". I've been 29 for a while now. Like the quote. Made me laugh.
So, in summary, it was a great birthday. Yippee.
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