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I still have a few more years until I'm 30. Which is good, considering I think I was around 21 when I started posting.

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In my head, everyone here is 28 until I find out otherwise.

Why 28, of all ages?

I don't really care about my birthday (even though we get two dates for celebrating it, the Hebrew and the general one, and some people celebrate for the whole period between the two, even if it is a month, and sometimes it is). I guess it's tied up to how I don't really realize the whole age thing.

For me, the - in the lack of a better word - place in life, where the person is, has more meaning than how many orbits the earth has made around the sun since the first cry that person made. It may be what Jessica described upthread, in a way.

Friends' birthdays, for me, are simply a good excuse to tell them how much I love them and want all the best for them, without being considered too mushy.

[Edit: shrift! I'm a horrid skipper, but - are you all moved and settled and comfortable in your new place?]

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Like Steph, I am a total birthday whore.

I am, too, although they rarely live up to my unreasonable expectations of National Holiday! and I got a pony! and Presents and Cake and Happiness All! Day! Long!

Me three. Last year, when I turned forty, came very close, since I got to celebrate with some friends in Vegas, and then with other friends in LA. This year will just be just Vegas, but I expect there will be partying, since Juliana will probably be there.

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Why 28, of all ages?

I don't know, Nilly. I guess maybe it seems old enough to explain the maturity that's evident in the community, and young enough to explain the sense of fun.

I don't really care about my birthday (even though we get two dates for celebrating it, the Hebrew and the general one, and some people celebrate for the whole period between the two, even if it is a month, and sometimes it is). I guess it's tied up to how I don't really realize the whole age thing.

I don't care about my birthday, at all. I'm not a birthday hater, although since my father's death, I do sort of hold my breath and wait for it to pass. His birthday (his and his deceased twin's) was the day before my own. Their father died on that day (a few years after dad's twin died, although not on that day). It's sort of lonely for me, now.

For me, the - in the lack of a better word - place in life, where the person is, has more meaning than how many orbits the earth has made around the sun since the first cry that person made. It may be what Jessica described upthread, in a way.

Me, too.

Is Shavu'ot over now, Nilly? Did you have a good holiday?

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I expect there will be partying, since Juliana will probably be there.

.... I seem to have a reputation.

Although you're not wrong, especially since 1) the owner of the Royale used to work at the casino we're staying at and 2) C's friend's bar should be open by then.

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My 30s have been mostly good, so far. I've travelled a little, gotten rid of a lot of debt, and (thus far) the job I love hasn't been yanked out from under me. I was a bit relieved when I hit 30, because what I wanted to do with my 20s and what it seemed I should have been doing didn't click. I don't like loud noises, crowds, smoke, or late nights, so all that bar hopping, rocking, wild stuff that supposedly happens from college until you hit 30? So wasted on me.

Now that I'm 38, and discovering jazz and blues and Cole Porter, and just not feeling that I should be this person I'm really not, I'm feeling much more relaxed.

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I expect there will be partying, since Juliana will probably be there.

.... I seem to have a reputation.

LEGENDARY!

what I wanted to do with my 20s and what it seemed I should have been doing didn't click. I don't like loud noises, crowds, smoke, or late nights, so all that bar hopping, rocking, wild stuff that supposedly happens from college until you hit 30? So wasted on me.

This is totally me.

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Did you have a good holiday?

Yes, thanks. It's all over - it's just the one day (two, for those who live abroad and double up all the holidays). But it's the end of a period of 50 days, being counted since Passoer ("the counting of the Omer"), so it's anticipated for long, and it feels like something much longer was over.

And, I think I've mentioned it, but I have to write it again, for the will-convert-for-food that you are - it's customary to have dairy foods on this holiday. So there was not only cheese cake, but also ice-cream for dessert!

[Edit: Perkins! In one of the very recent batch of pictures from the F2F there was finally one of you from the prom, and you looked absolutely gorgeous! I loved your dress, your make-up, and most of all you in it. I'm so glad somebody managed to take a picture of you, that I'm abusing exclamation points!]

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LEGENDARY!

Steph, I think you need to join us, in order to make sure it really is.

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