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When you're a kid, half birthdays are a BIG DEAL!

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"I'm 5 and a half!  I'm almost in 1st grade!"

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When you're an adult, not so much.

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Except when, in a moment of insanity, you start a 365 day project blog on your birthday.

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Then your half birthday is a BIG DEAL!

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Because you're half-way there!

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I'm not quite half-way because I did have to take a short break when my grandfather passed away.

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But Day 170 was still my half-birthday, and after looking at the plethora of half birthday ideas on the <strong><a href="http://www.halfbirthdayparties.com/" target="_blank">half birthday websites</a></strong> (yes, they do exist, believe it or not), I decided to give myself the most timely half birthday present of all.

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The gift of space.

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Breathing room.

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Ahhhhh...

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Which was promptly interrupted by server disasters.  I couldn't upload any more photos on my blog because I used up all of my allotted cyberspace.

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I nearly stopped breathing when all of this ensued.  (A big thanks to Todd for steering me towards the light.)

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The nice server guys gave me 3 extra gigs for free.  Now <em>that's</em> a nice half-birthday present!

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So I attempted to give myself breathing room space and I wound up with extra cyberspace instead.  Funny how life works.

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I will have to re-gift myself the breathing space on another day.

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