33 Times Around the Sun in Current Events

My mother surprised me yesterday. My family gets together this time every year to celebrate me and my twin sisters birthdays (they were born 4 days before my first birthday). She found a pizza place that has vegan options and she was so happy that I wouldn’t have to bring my own food to a family function. She also found a vegan cheesecake and a vegan caesar salad dressing lol. She went all out for me. This is the most support that I’ve gotten from her about this “unhealthy lifestyle”.
However, I have not been enjoying anything the last few days because of how stressful work has been. It is supposed to be the slowest time of the year but nope. Everything is falling apart this weekend and my boss and I were texting about it all last night and he is trying to force me into working a double today. Does he care that it is my birthday today? He would if I told him it was my birthday. I just don’t want him to come help because he is working 65 hour days between the two other stores that he has on his plate right now. This job is taking up too much space in my life again. I have dinner with the boys later so I decided that I would just start early today and work the overtime. I am going to make damn sure that next week we have no surprises and no stress at work. I also need to count my blessings because my store is spoiled compared to everybody else. They’re actually falling apart. I really need to come through for my employees and my team because I do not want anybody having the worst time when they come to work. They deserve better.
I broke tradition last night. The minute that the date turned to January 6th I would have updated my Facebook to “33 Times Around the Sun” but this is the first year that I will not be enjoying all that attention online.