Jessica threw me a 40th birthday party this weekend (my birthday is actually Oct 4) and decided to make it a party/roast. She did a phenomenal job preparing the evening and what actually transpired was insanely appropriate and ironic. Read the whole post to find out why.

Jessica planned on introducing the night with her own take on roasting me, here is the text of her speech (which I found to be amazingly well done)...

"Thank you for coming out to celebrate your very old friend, Derek Bonesteel!

40 has been a momentous milestone in Derek’s mind for quite awhile. He has thoroughly relished being in his 30‘s while those of us who are slightly older than him have gone on to the next decade. 

But... as Derek has realized that he himself is about to cross over into his 40s, he has had to find comfort from other sources (because he’s not finding it from those of us who are slightly older than him).