April 5, 2005

Since Turning Thirty, I...

--woke up with aches and pains. I do believe I said, "Ow, my back."

--forgot what I was going to say two words into the sentence.

--publicly announced someone's birthday as belated, when it hadn't happened yet.

--surfed online for a good, affordable Singer, and not the kind that come to my house and play Karaoke Revolution.

--complained out loud to nobody about squirrels in my yard eating my sweet basil.

--moved tables at the restaurant because where we were sitting was "drafty and too busy."

--made a pot of tea.

--got pride from making a chickpea and eggplant filo pie in my new springform cake pan just like Nigella would.

--held a cat who didn't want to be held and told him he wanted to be held because he's a good kitty and it's my birthday.

--wore my pajamas until five in the afternoon.

--couldn't remember which piece of sushi I had just eaten, causing a three-minute discussion over who gets the remaining piece.

--celebrated a pile of books and gardening tools as presents.

--gabbed on the phone all day to friends and family while sometimes wearing a robe over my pajamas, wandering around my yard, fixing the tulips.

Maybe the body does start to change, just a little. And I suppose I'm getting a tad on the grown-up'y side. Not too much, though. I had a fantastic birthday, filled with well-wishes and good news from so many friends.

Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta pull my rocking chair up to the veggie patch and shoo away the squirrels. Pa's callin' for his britches, so I gotta get back to my sewing.

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Posted by pamie at 10:12 AM