My 40th Birthday: A Comedy Of Errors [PHOTOS]

Lordy, lordy, and all that jazz. Yes, I'm now 40. Did I just write that? I'll rephrase, I'm 40 years young. In the hours leading up to October 13th this year, things started out a little shaky.

First, Monday night, I managed to lock myself out of my apartment for the third time this year. Here's a helpful tip, don't lock the door to erase the step of locking the door WITH YOUR KEYS, until you have them in hand. I also locked myself out on April Fool's Day, so every six months, I guess I need to wear my keys around my neck or my wrist.

For my birthday, my sister, brother-in-law, and my niece Zoey took me out to lunch and I got a bonus cupcake. I would show you what my real cake looked like, which leads to another unfortunate event. My sister and brother-in-law both broke down and got iPhones over the weekend, and my brother-in-law set the Louisville fight song as his ringtone. He's not always the most technically savvy, but he did it. So I didn't want to be left out, only I wanted WKU's fight song "Stand Up and Cheer" as my ringtone, however, I don't know if it has something to do with the new iOS update, but the ringtone I purchased didn't go to my phone. After lunch, I had Bobby mess with the phone to see if he could work another miracle, alas, it didn't happen. Oh well, but I wasn't going to be denied.

I went home and connected my phone to my laptop and I opened iTunes, but I got a pop up asking me if I would like to "restore my phone". Here's tip number two, DON'T RESTORE YOUR PHONE, unless you have backed it up, which mine had, but every single photo I had taken in the last year vanished in a matter of minutes. I think I panicked more than when the door locked behind me. Thus, I spent an hour Tuesday afternoon talking to Apple, they were great, and restoring a little over 100 photos I thought were lost. Unfortunately, any pictures I snapped in the last three weeks could not be recovered. I had snapped a great selfie of me and Zoey, but instead, here's a picture I took when my phone returned to normal.

Zoey can write now! And she is writing her name now too...

She's so smart and funny, this warmed my heart. Here's to 40 more years!