A Wonderful Birthday!

My 34th Birthday was one of the best birthdays that I’ve had in many years!

I downloaded the Goodnotes app on my iPad and let me just say…I am so excited to incorporate this app into my practice! I wrote that little note above as a mini test. A Beta Test (if you will) and I have many ideas popping into my mind tool! I’m definitely going to use this app for readings since I can upload the notes that I take right into a client’s Dropbox folder along with the recording!

It’s pretty easy to write on the iPad with the Apple Pencil! I’ll get better and better at it and I’ll learn new ways to create handwritten documents that will be more stylized. Yes! And typing these blog entries on my iPad is so easy.

This birthday was everything I wanted. A chill day doing my favorite things. Journaling. Writing. Reading. Hanging out with my love. Eating delicious food. Playing the Digimon TCG. Watching my favorite shows. Being with my loved ones. What more could I ask for?

My love and I went to my dad’s house for dinner. We ordered everyone pizza (I got myself a vegan sicilian pie) and I even made my own vegan cake! A boxed cake, but I used 1 cup of orange soda and 1/2 cup of vegetable oil rather than using eggs/dairy. It came out pretty good!

I watched Charmed and AHS: Coven along with some Judge Judy. I’ve been on a Judge Judy kick lately…

As the cake was cooling, my love and I played 3 rounds of the Digimon Trading Card Game. This is my favorite TCG and I first started playing it around the time of my 30th Birthday. I may not have the best competitive decks, but we have a great time battling each other. My love never even heard about Digimon until I got him to play with me so it’s a great activity for us to chill, play some music, and fight one another with digital monsters!

This birthday was also the first sober birthday that I had in many years. I wrote about how I stopped consuming alcohol which began in April 2024 so it’s been well over a year since I drank. I’ve also stopped consuming any form of THC and that’s been going on for 3 months. I wasn’t abusing cannabis, but I just felt like I out grew it and present-day cannabis is just too damn strong! My god, it just has too much potency and I hate feeling overloaded when I never wanted to get to that state. I’m basically sober now and I love it! Having a sober birthday also made me realize even more that I have no desire to be under the influence of any form of drug.

A big birthday spectacle isn’t my ideal way to spend my solar return. I’m simple. Just being around those I love and doing what I enjoy most are what I need to celebrate my life. The only thing I’d do different is to carve out sometime to play the piano, but I’ll just play the keys tomorrow.

Dedicating this new year of my life to those I love, to what I love doing, and to keep growing. Plus! A loved one of mine received great news regarding health so it made today an even better day of celebration!

Cheers!

(I also have a new project that I’m working on and my iPad is going to be an incredible tool to see this project manifest into existence. Stay tuned!)