{"id":2993,"date":"2013-03-23T22:55:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T02:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2013-03-23T22:55:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T02:55:32","slug":"they-say-its-my-birthday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=2993","title":{"rendered":"They say it’s my birthday…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, most people did anyway. Turned 36 yesterday. What the hell? (Here’s what I know: I’d better be in a place in my life where I can go someplace amazing to turn 40 at, to soften the blow. I’m not very good at getting older, the entire concept genuinely puzzles me. More about that later.)<\/p>\n

But here’s what I did:<\/p>\n

Baked my own birthday cake using the recipe called “Depression Cake<\/a>“, which sounds like a downer except that the name is because you mix all the dry ingredients then form 3 depressions in the dry ingredients for oil, vanilla and (strangely) vinegar (just a little!) and then mix and bake.<\/p>\n

Cleaned out more home office stuff and took a carload to Goodwill and ran to the grocery store to buy frosting. Also gave Denise the opportunity to earn a million Friend points (even via texting she’s a champion listener) because something had made me a little sad.<\/p>\n

Gene and I had BBQ for dinner, I talked to my parents and my grandfather and eventually I iced the cake and served it. I’m not 100% sure if I like it enough to make again and Gene’s opinion was that it was meh.<\/p>\n

Today I got my hair cut (next time: color!). It is so exciting being a grownup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, most people did anyway. Turned 36 yesterday. What the hell? (Here’s what I know: I’d better be in a place in my life where I can go someplace amazing to turn 40 at, to soften the blow. I’m not very good at getting older, the entire concept genuinely puzzles me. More about that later.)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-tour-08","category-baby-dreaming","category-certifiable-undeniable","category-deadly-poison-deadly-poison-ahh-tasty-fish","category-elsewhere-on-the-internet","category-ha","category-i-are-educated","category-indiana","category-lets-get-ready-to-ramble","category-life-in-cheesecake-city","category-mahjobiscrappis","category-mahnewjobiscoolis","category-nerds-ahoy","category-reading-writing-listening-to","category-really-deep-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}