Gratuitious Birthday Post and Warning

Yes, this post is a blatant attempt to get birthday wishes for my 42nd birthday.  42 isn't an especially big milestone under normal circumstances, but this is my first birthday with the band.  It is also one of the few birthdays where I weigh less than the prior year.  That is definitely cause for celebration!

Since I'm doing this post, I also want to give you a warning that I might cry in Chicago.  I'm a fairly emotional person.  Not like crazy up and down emotional, but the kind of emotional where I cry at pretty much anything that touches me - commercials, when I hear somebody is sick or has died (even if I don't know them), ice skating, when my daughters say "I love you" out of the blue...okay, you get the point.  I was telling some friends about the trip I am taking to Chicago and how much it means to me that so many women would travel to meet other women they know only through their blogs and guess what?  I started to cry.  I think it's amazing what we are doing on so many levels.  So many of us are stepping out of our comfort zone big time to make this trip, but we trust each other enough to do it.  I am so excited to meet you ALL and if I tear up, just ignore me.  They are good tears.  XO