Oh Cass, many hugs to you. I want to say happy birthday, but I realize that it will be a bittersweet one. Over time, the holidays get easier.
Oh, smacked in the noggin with a 2x4 wrapped in velvet. Yeah, that's what it felt like.
Lorne ,'Smile Time'
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Burrell - Jun 13, 2013 3:56:25 pm PDT #884 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Cass - Jun 13, 2013 4:17:27 pm PDT #885 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
We're doing that side of family dinner on Saturday and, I think, hanging out on part of Sunday. But my actual birthday is Monday and I'll spend that with Mom with whom I plan to do yoga in the morning and have no idea what to do later, maybe lunch and errands.
It's going to be a really bittersweet but hopefully I am thinking of Saturday as Dad's night and us celebrating Father's Day. And Monday can be my birthday. I need the closure of the dinner, I think, but I hope it does get easier as well.
And I am kinda wishing it weren't the year I turned 42. This birthday is supposed to be fun and full of geekery.
Burrell - Jun 13, 2013 4:47:17 pm PDT #886 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
And I am kinda wishing it weren't the year I turned 42. This birthday is supposed to be fun and full of geekery.
Oh wow, and such a birthday! I was planning a big party for my 42nd birthday and then my MiL got her diagnosis that month and there went my plans. sigh. I guess I can aim for my 50th? One of these years I'll have a birthday party.
Burrell - Jun 13, 2013 4:47:54 pm PDT #887 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh and I should say that the year can pack in enough fun and geekery to totally make up for it.
Steph L. - Jun 13, 2013 5:09:03 pm PDT #888 of 30002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Hmm. I turn 42 in 10 days, and...I don't want anything else crappy to happen between now and then.
Atropa - Jun 13, 2013 5:33:38 pm PDT #889 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I hope 42 is a good year for you, Cass and Teppy. I'm sure it was a good year for other people. But I gotta say, mine was a pretty horrible year.
P.M. Marc - Jun 13, 2013 6:08:31 pm PDT #890 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Cass, buy yourself a towel. You deserve a really, really nice one. Bathsheet. Fluffy.
(My favorite towel is the one I got for my friend's 42nd birthday, which was unfortunately a year and a half after he died. But I got him a really nice one. I figured he'd have appreciated it, as I've never met a bigger Douglas Adams fan than he was, and that he would never begrudge me his spirit towel.)
P.M. Marc - Jun 13, 2013 6:09:20 pm PDT #891 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Which reminds me, I STILL need to get myself a second memorial towel for someone who died at almost 42.
Towels have become very meaningful to me.
Sean K - Jun 13, 2013 6:11:08 pm PDT #892 of 30002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'll chime in as a counter example to say that 42 wasn't bad for me. In fact, compared to previous years, it was pretty good, all told. And 43 is starting out fantastic. And I think I even had friends drag me out on my birthday, and I had fun and stuff.
But 42 was definitely the year I finally dragged myself out of the mire of suck that I've been through recently.
lisah - Jun 13, 2013 6:23:39 pm PDT #893 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate
42 was an awesome year for me to get married! I highly recommend that for you, Teppy!