Thank you's

Thank you mom & dad for the great meals
Thank you Phil for the lasagna, coffee crisps, ...
Thank you Hongsa and Tiffany for the gift and arranging stuff in general
Thank you Bryan for big fat pink candle on Phil's lasagna haha
Thank you Andrew for not getting me sick (hopefully)
Thank you to the aforementioned and Salah, Ryan, Susan for coming out to bubbletea, movie, poker, dessert, mariokart, and/or mario party decathalon
Thank you everyone for the phone calls, the emails, the ecards

You know you're getting old when happy-birthday songs are either missing or used to embarrass you
You know you're getting old when you get one big fat pink candle instead of the number of candles reflecting your age
You know you're getting old when you are no longer 19 or 20 or 21 or 22 but "mid-20s"
You know you're getting old when Bryan is turning 24 soon
You know you're getting old when you get tired more easily
You know you're getting old when flying the red-eye seems fairly normal
You know you're getting old when people at work think that's normal too

But what does it matter because my whole theory of relative aging works; I'll never have to act my age, because relatively speaking, I didn't get any older ;)