I love my birthday. Of course, technically my birthday isn't for almost two weeks, but it is my birthday month, which means the party has started and I'm on a roll--I scored some major loot last night at our annual family October Birthday Blowout.
We have many zany little family traditions around the October Birthdays, traditions which have driven in-laws and invited guests crazy over the years, but I love them with all my heart. The most important of these tradtitions, and dare I say the most fun, is the Playing of the Game. Each year my mother, annointed hostess of the Blowout, concocts a game that the birthday girls must play in order to earn access to said loot. I love the Playing of the Game so much because I have a brain full of useless trivia, a competitive streak as wide as the Mississippi, and when I win, which I often do, I get to open my prezzies first. Yes, I'm 42 years old this year. No, I don't care that I take an overly childish delight in my birthday. A girl's gotta take some childish delight in something, better my birthday than in poking passengers on the bus with sharp objects.
What fabulous loot did you score, nina, you ask? Why this and this for starters. I also got a beautiful beaded necklace, and some gorgeous earrings, and a cheese grater. (Hey, don't laugh--have you ever tried living without a cheese grater?)
I'm grateful that this year, unlike the last, I actually feel like celebrating, and I'm grateful for all the hard work that goes into these celebrations. My grandmother is 86, and I'm ever more aware that one day, we'll be celebrating her portion of the October Birthday Blowout in absentia. I don't want to dwell too much on that now, though. I just want to be here with my family, joyful in the simple things like chocolate cake and one more surprise to unwrap.
Happy early birthday darlin
Posted by: Mikey | 2004.10.10 at 11:19
Happy day 10 of your birthday month! I hope the next 21 days are great, too. Birthday coffee and chocolate (dark of course) is on me sometime in the next week or two...
Posted by: Kimberly | 2004.10.10 at 15:42
Happy BirthMonth! From my vantage point (6 months older than you), I can tell you that 42 ain't so bad. Especially when you start it off with a bang like you did! :-D
Posted by: Karen | 2004.10.10 at 18:25
Awww, I am sooo jealous, you have Queen first! And an Ipod! You did make a haul, girl!
I always wanted a Halloween birthday, myself. Memorial Day doesn't mean much when you are a kid.
Posted by: Cowtown Pattie | 2004.10.11 at 18:41
Happy 'early' Birthday! It is good to start early - you are going to get to celebrate at least a couple of times!
Posted by: Wendy | 2004.10.12 at 18:39
Happy Birthday! Nice stuff - Aad you still have two weeks to go....
Posted by: Ronni Bennett | 2004.10.13 at 08:20
happy birthday! it was my birthday on oct. 9th (saturday)- turned 41 - and I took Friday off...and in Canada it was thanksgiving weekend, so I got Monday off... so I told my kids that the party was starting on Thursday and ending on Monday at midnight...!!! We had a great time - the main event was on Saturday night - every single guest gave me red wine cause they know I love it, and boy did I have a hangover the next day... all day... oh well... once a year...????
Posted by: lisa | 2004.10.14 at 21:43