On this day 24 years ago...

Today is my 24th birthday.
I have learnt, as I get older, that birthdays are sometimes less celebrated the older you get.
This year, for example, it crept up on me.
There was little fanfare leading up to the big day, unlike my childhood years when birthdays and parties would be planned months in advance (I fondly recall my sixth birthday party which I had at Hungry Jacks).
Because of all this I assumed my birthday would also be a non-event however as it turns out it's been fantastic so far.

Getting a birthday card from all my journo friends at Community Newspapers was a really nice and unexpected surprise, my girlfriend brought presents from her and her parents so I could open them when I woke up in the morning AND she baked me a cake to take into work (sometimes I'm very spoiled).
In all, my birthday has turned out to be extremely promising - with a long weekend coming up and a range of social activities to attend I'm looking at stretching my birthday into a birthday fortnight.
And I am LOVING being 24.
People tell me this time of my life is a great time and I have to wholeheartedly agree.

I am wholeheartedly embracing my young adult years - I still feel like a teenager but being in my 20s means I am, for the most part, looked upon as an adult.

So here's to birthdays, friends and embracing your age!!
I'll drink to that :)