{"id":7120,"date":"2011-05-24T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=7120"},"modified":"2011-12-16T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:23:04","slug":"365-days-of-bliss-day-24-the-big-two-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/365-days-of-bliss-day-24-the-big-two-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"365 Days of Bliss: Day 24 – The Big Two Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy May 24th everyone! Lynnette here with my first 365 Days of Bliss post. Welcome to the awesomest day of the year (in my opinion of course, hehe)<\/em>…<\/p>\n

My birthday!<\/p>\n

I LOVE birthdays. Birthdays are right up there with Christmas for me in the category of most awesome holidays of the year. I love the balloons, the cake, the presents. There’s just something so cool about a day that gets to be all about you.<\/p>\n

(Well, except if you’re my dad, my maternal grandma and my brother-in-law. Then you all have share the same December 23rd birthday. And I find it weird that three family members brought together by marriage have the same birthday, haha.)<\/em><\/p>\n

If you think this is born out of some sense of insane sense of self-importance and vanity, I assure you it is not. I am this way about ALL birthdays. As Adam will tell you I was more excited about his birthday in March than he was, haha.<\/p>\n

But today’s birthday isn’t just any ol’ birthday for me. Today I officially turn the big Two-Nine. The age I will remain for the next many years to come, haha.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ll admit, I have mixed feelings about turning twenty-nine.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, turning one year older sure beats the alternative, haha.<\/p>\n

But at the same time it feels a bit, well, old. Am I really only twelve short months away from turning thirty<\/em>?<\/p>\n

I mean, thirty<\/em> is practically forty<\/em> which is practically fifty<\/em> which is practically one small step away from rockin’ a walker with tennis balls. (Although considering my 93 years-young grandmother just started using a walker earlier this year, she’d probably tell me I was being silly and twenty-nine is still plenty young. And I know she’d be right.)<\/em><\/p>\n

But really, where has the time gone??? Do I really only have one year left to make it onto one of those super-amazing-people-under-thirty lists?<\/em><\/p>\n

In general, I try not to be too doom and gloom when it comes to age. It is what it is, age ain’t nothing but a number, with age comes wisdom…all that jazz. Why worry about something that in the grand scheme doesn’t even really matter?<\/em><\/p>\n

But I think the reason the big two-nine has hit me so hard is it feels like such a milestone<\/em>. A rite of passage. The last official year of my twenties.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the same way that 16, 18, 21 and 25 were all milestone birthdays, so too is twenty-nine for me. It’s like the last great stepping-stone toward becoming a full-fledged adult.<\/p>\n

And as any scrapbooker knows, milestones are a great opportunity for scrapbooking.<\/p>\n

For the last several months, I’ve been thinking about how I want to document my twenty-ninth year.<\/p>\n

Do I go with another list project like my 28@28 list? Maybe a 30 before 30 list?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Do I go with another P365 type project like my Deployment:365 album from 2009?<\/p>\n

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Or do I go with the it-trend of the moment and do something along the lines of Project Life<\/a>?
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\nProject Life photo found here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The more options and inspiration I viewed, the more confused I became about what direction I wanted to go. So I decided to make a list of exactly what I wanted out of my 29th year album. This was my list:<\/p>\n

Daily Life<\/strong><\/p>\n