32 Things: A Birthday Edition

1. It's my thirty-second birthday.  I can only form thoughts in bulleted lists at this point, so here we are.
2. Not feeling well last night, I went to bed at 7:45 after doping up on Aleve, Benadryl, and my daughter's expired inhaler.
3. When I woke up, surprises did abound!
4. Dave cleaned up JD's pee sheets, because it's my birthday.  Also, he does stuff like that anyway, and I love that about him.
5. First, I received this lovely crown. 
   
6. Let's not forget the birthday sign(s). #spellingishard
   
7. Do yourself a favor and buy a "Happy Birthday" sign from the Dollar Tree.  Keep it.  Use it for every birthday until it breaks.  
   
8. We had a cinnamon roll "cake" for breakfast, because Dave can bake things.
9. I wore leggings as pants, because I just want to live my life.
10. The ride to school was a karaoke concert of The Greatest Showman soundtrack, because I bought the music to prepare before seeing the movie this weekend.
11. This just in: I do not sound like Keala Settle.
12. I went to Aldi with my sidekick kid.  The checker handed me my chocolate rather than throwing it into the basket, because she figured it was important to me and didn't want it to break. Bless her.  May she also one day have such a caring cashier when she buys herself a birthday treat at the discount grocery store.
    
13. I bought an iced mocha on the way home, because you know why. 
    
14. My family worked all week to give me this gift that keeps on giving! 
    
15. I had this cute, disgusting lunch buddy. 
    
16. I read through birthday messages and smiled a lot.
17. I momentarily forgot what the (Ctrl + ) shortcut is to "cut" something while writing this.  It seriously took at least 3 incorrect attempts to figure it out again.
18. I never ate lunch, so I grabbed a kiddie cup of cashews to take through the carpool pick-up line.
19. I brought along the book I'm reading currently.
20. Myla's teacher, who is an absolute angel, poked her head into my car window during pick-up and said, "I was going to email you.  Myla hasn't been doing her homework, and I thought that's not like her.  I made her do some of it in class today."  Cue my shame. Because I want to care about this, but I just do not.  Isn't it enough that I feed her everyday?
21. Myla is a rule follower who is now disappointed in my lack of commitment to homework, so I appeased her by adding a new daily alarm for "Homework Time."  
22. I ordered myself new running shoes.  Because sometimes I run.  Sometimes.  I forwarded Dave the confirmation email and said, "Thank you for my birthday present!"  That works for us.
23. I tried to figure out my Enneagram Type.  I might be a 6 with a 5 wing, but I'm not entirely sure.  Why is it so confusing?!
24. I listened to a podcast with a panel of type 6 people, because that's apparently a thing you can do.
25. My sister thinks I'm a total weirdo any time I talk about podcasts.
26. I gave some love to my neighbor's dog, and yes, that is a highlight, because that dog freaking rocks.  I love her.
27. Dave has to work a little late, so he'll miss dinner.  This means I'm shifting the meal plan.
28. Pro tip: If you are single-parenting during the dinner hour, feed the kids something they won't complain about.  Repeat after me: minimum effort to maximum payoff.  That's how you choose what to make for dinner.
29. These are ingredients for an acceptable dinner: 
    
30. Yes, I'm eating it too, because nostalgia.  Also, yum.
31. It's almost kid bedtime.
32. Seriously, look at this cuteness: