better with age

today i'm 28.

i spent my last birthday happier than most birthdays, but still feeling old and misunderstaning relationships.

this one was much better. even the voicemail from my mom saying "our baby is 28!!" didn't bring me down.

i woke up next to the one i love and even though that won't happen tomorrow, i'll still go to bed happy because i reached a huge milestone in lifting. i squatted 315 for 5 reps.

315 is a magic number in weightlifting. see if you can figure out why.

i planned to squat 300 for 5 reps. i passed that milestone 2 weeks ago and didn't look back (and while squatting, especially not down). tonight i made the 5x315 without fearing it, without doubting it, and without screwing it up. it wasn't as pretty as 5x300, but it happened.

the past year has seen me through tremendous personal growth in all areas of my life, but there's nothing quite so quantatatively satisfying as cold iron and hard numbers.