Shenanigans might be too strong (and misleading) a word to describe my birthday celebrations this year. That is, unless you too, consider family dinner, Denny’s, and a hotel stay shenanigans.
Since there are no alternative words synonymous to shenanigans while you’ve been “adulting” for a long time now, I’ll just leave it be. Even though my birthdays are no longer all-out dusk to dawn affairs (it’s been years!), that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy them – in a more subdued, reflective way.