I turned 31.\u00c2\u00a0 x writes me:<\/p>\n
officially in your thirties<\/p>\n
because i think you’re 31, yes?<\/p>\n
1. your pants start to fall off of your ass and so you spend more of your time than you ever thought possible with this singular task: pulling up your pants.
\n2. it seems you’ve been privy to eyes that don’t need glasses, but i suspect this curse of seeing will haunt you at some point, too. i predict your thirties for this one.
\n3. more time for collaborations gone wrong like the email you just sent me from that weird powder-paint-guy. (what was his context anyway?)
\n4. when good things happen they are REALLY GOOD but
\n5. when bad things happen they are horrible. oh, but you’ve been living with this for almost a year now. sigh.
\n6. you think about time in chunks of years instead of chunks of days.
\n7. your hands start to look old and veiny (have you noticed this yet?)
\n8. you realize even more than you did in your twenties the importance of your friends and family.<\/p>\nthis is my way of saying happy birthday to you.
\nbecause, dammit, i’ll always be a few years older.
\nx<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I turned 31.\u00c2\u00a0 x writes me: officially in your thirties because i think you’re 31, yes? 1. your pants start to fall off of your ass and so you spend more of your time than you ever thought possible with this singular task: pulling up your pants. 2. it seems you’ve been privy to eyes … Continue reading Birthday Wishes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,56,44],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metanarrative","tag-friends","tag-funny","tag-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}