I say it's my birthday. I'm gonna have a good time.

It's my 42nd birthday today. 

I'm kind of excited.  Guardedly so.  It's been a pretty crummy year couple of years decade life year what with the no job and exploding debt and now this stupid going on 4 weeks long bout of bronchitis, but I'm focusing on the positive.  I am, as my daughter reminded me, living the year of the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything.

So, the positive:

1. I have an amazing daughter
2. I have a husband who loves me
3. I have family that is there for me
4. I have friends who care for me
5. I have fun with my family and my friends
6. I have cats who love to sit with me
7. I am smart
8. I am kind
9. I am generous
10. I am focused
11. I am saucy
12. I am funny. Dammit.
13. I make excellent cookies.
14. I make even better chicken noodle soup
15. I make awesomely hilarious cross stitches
16. I make really inappropriate jokes
17. I make people comfortable when they are ill at ease
18. I have a home 
19. I have a little garden
20. I have my books
21. I have my photos
22. I have come to actually enjoy eating oatmeal for breakfast every.single.day
23. I am taking my medication and it is helping me
24. I am exercising and it is helping me
25. I am fearless [about some things]
26. I am loving my curly hair
27. I am pretty beautiful
28. I am using Twitter and having fun with it
29. I have made friends through Twitter
30. I have made friends through the internets
31. I have been writing
32. I have had people show an interest in my writing
33. I really like when I get to practice law
34. I really like being able to watch every episode of Scrubs back to back to back to back . . . 
35. I really like that Andygirl and I took a germ of an idea and created the Raw Photos Contest
36. I really like having spent this summer enjoying unlimited time with my daughter
37. I still love learning
38. I still love reading
39. I still love dancing
40. I still love laughing
41. I still love trying new things
42. I am learning to love myself.  Every bit of myself.

So that's my birthday.  Yay me!