Today is considered my “Champagne birthday”, meaning today I turn 27 on the 27th of May.<\/p>\n
I haven’t settled on how I really feel about this birthday. Turning 20 was very significant for me because having a brother that is 12 years older wasn’t the norm growing up. When friends or classmates would ask me how old my brother was and I would say, “he’s twenty–something (*insert appropriate value here*). Guaranteed, the person listening would say, “wow, that’s old!”.<\/p>\n
Turning 25 was significant as I became “quarter of a century” in age. For some reason, 27 seems to be hitting me a little hard. I don’t know why it feels so much more older than 26. Maybe because I’m creeping closer to the big 3-0 and can no longer “round down” my age in my head.<\/p>\n
I’ve accomplished many things in the past year, so it’s not as if I come to you with regrets or filled with burdens. I’m just being all thoughtful and reflective (must be a sign of my age).<\/p>\n
Something new I learned today is that my birthday is shared with the infamous Ted Rogers<\/a>. I also learned that the very awesome Jamie Oliver <\/a>shares my birthday!! I think if given the option to meet either, I’d pick the latter…<\/p>\n That’s all for now. Today is considered my “Champagne birthday”, meaning today I turn 27 on the 27th of May. I haven’t settled on how I really feel about this birthday. Turning 20 was very significant for me because having a brother that is 12 years older wasn’t the norm growing up. When friends or classmates would ask me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zorl-8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Virginia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"