What is this?! and Growing Pains

I feel like this summer has been a non-stop
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                                       marathon.

Last week, my friend from Florida, Nicole stayed with my roommate and I. It was so fun to see her (since we rarely have a chance to spend a week with her) but still felt busy. This weekend, my fiance and I went to another friend's wedding and Monday was my birthday--25!

I'm finally feeling like I can have a breather and some free time--something I feel like I have been missing in my "summer off." I have a small vacation planned in a few weeks and school starting up in 4.5 weeks (YIKES!) So I do have some planning/packing coming up in the not so distant future, but today I think I can take a small break and just kick back, relax, and maybe read a magazine.

My birthday was yesterday, I am an 8/8 baby! Making 8 my lucky number. My birthday was not super exciting, partially my own darn fault. Part of me thinks that maybe this is how birthdays will be now that I am getting older and have reached all the milestone birthdays and have friends and family spread world-wide. I slept in (because I was exhausted after the Sunday wedding we attended) and when I got up I did chores (because I had been gone since Friday and the house was a mess). So in between laundry/vacuuming/dishes/dusting/finishing painting the Master Bedroom, I brought lunch to the fiance at work. After he came home from work with flowers and a card we headed to his parents for dinner. Later, we met up with my roommate, Jill, from Life After College http://lifeaftercollege3.blogspot.com/ for cake and presents. The highlight of my day was definitely cake with Jill and just chatting with her and the fiance. BUT...the rest of my day felt a little lack luster. I guess I should have made a point to go shopping or to a movie, but maybe this is just what grown up birthdays are like.

Anyone else have exciting or not so exciting birthdays as you get older or is it just me?