Happy Birthday to Me!

Today I turned 19. Its that age right after 18 where you become a legal adult and right before 20 when you are no longer a TEEN and people stop cringing when they hear your age. So, what happens when you turn 19? For LDS males they go on a mission... For LDS females.. they are no longer seen as too young to marry? Maybe? I'm not sure. It seems to be just an awkward in-between age. At least it gives an excuse for a celebration!

My dear amazing sister Rouie made me dinner and a marvelous cake which I hope to post pictures of. Oh, everything was perfect. And a few friends came over to celebrate with me. It was nice and small and nothing huge which is actually how I like it. It could only have been improved if I didn't have work all day and assignments still to finish.

I think though, that the most amazing thing out of my birthday is finding out who cares. I've developed a crude way of judging how much people care by the way they wish you a Happy Birthday or if they even remember. To start there is the Facebook friend who see's it is your birthday and writes on your wall. People you don't care about and they likewise are only being polite by the gentle prodding of Facebook simply say "Happy Birthday! I hope it's great!" or something to that effect. Its nice but eh, who cares. Some will leave a longer note with an inside joke or memory or anything acknowledging that they know you outside of the digital world and that means they care slightly more. Then comes the text messagers. This is people who care about you enough to have it be private but realize that they have busy lives/ time differences that make phone calls inconvenient but they want you to know they thought of you. I like these. It really is convenient.Then come the phone calls. This is where people surprise me. To me, or at least today, a phone call meant you really cared. You were making a point to set aside five minutes with time differences an everything else to say "Hey, I remember!" It's shocking the people who called me and the people who only text me... I'll be thinking of one call for a while I am sure.

Anyway, enough of that. My birthday was great. I'm 19 now. I don't know what that means exactly but I guess it's the best I've ever been :)