The Techyness of Turning 23.
Celebrating 23 Years of Alana
Is it weird that one of the first things that crossed my mind on Sunday (My 23rd birthday) is the fact that I had to update my blog? Not just that a truly remarkable post needed to be written, but also that I needed to update that little bit of text on the right side of the page (go ahead, look) that said “I am a 22 23 year old …”
Well, now that I’ve updated that, it’s time for a little bit of techyness insight into the world of being 23. I kinda feel the same, but now I just have to remind myself to say “23″ instead of “22″ – and I think that being further away from 21 makes people take me more seriously.
Anyway, people have been asking me- “What did you do for your birthday? How did you figure out what to do”
Well, readers of the techyness, I leveraged pre-existing resources to determine my birthday agenda.
Birthday Dinner at Bacchanalia (L:R, Momma, Alana (Me), Lauren
Food. Since the mom was in for the weekend, she said “pick the restaurant.” That was probably a mistake, mom, as I looked up the #1 restaurant in atlanta using Yelp and OpenTable. And in true web 2.0 style, I reviewed it afterwards.
And it doesn’t hurt that I was wearing the same dress featured in Vogue / that Sheryl Crow wore to the Inauguration concert-
Events. Luckily GE had a “Family Day” event scheduled for my birthday at Atlanta’s High Museum, where mom & I checked out the Terracotta Warriors Exhibit- amazing! This Wikipedia article has more info- over 8,000 terracotta soldiers were recently found in 3 pits!
Presents. It’s kindof Techy… My mom traveled down to hotlanta with a (swedish made) sewing machine! Oh and I got a chest of drawers (not quite so techy)
Other (Girly Events). HAD to see confessions of a shopaholic with the atl girly group. Loved it. Especially that custom ring tone… and the fact we have the same speck hard case for our macs (mine’s clear and I have a pro, but basically the same thing, right?)
So what I am going to work on while being 23? Continuing to write for the techyness, of course! And maybe planning a few blogger events in Albany ? Oh and moving every 6 months for work (but more to come on that soon).