in honor of my thirty years of inhabitance on the earth, i posted some picks of moi from the early days. don't try this at home.
i could write a really long & tedious entry about celebrating my birthday, which i'll probably do. but it occurs to me that not any of that writing could truly detail the range of feelings as i celebrated that birthday on october 29. yes, i'm almost a halloween baby. yes, i've heard the jokes. yes, i don't find them that funny. yes, i always had halloween theme birthday parties where our favorite game was "trick or treat" played from passing the plastic pumpkin around the circle of friends in attendance.
but, enough about that.
many thanks to all the well-wishers who made me feel treasured on my birthday. i was somewhat apprehensive about approaching thirty. after all, it is a loss of the twenties, a realization that we are now what's termed a "real" adult as opposed to a "young" adult. oh the humanity. somehow i grew up along the way & never really knew it. one day i just woke up, inhabiting an adult body, living in a house, working a job, paying my bills & (generally) being a responsible adult. nobody can really prepare you for that until you do it & even placing a number on it doesn't help. but placing that number there does mean i feel more adult in age than i do in character.
in honor of me, i took of friday & monday, although neither days were really for me, but rather for such tedious tasks as renewing the license & painting a coffee table. how adult! i spent over two hours at the DMV for renewing my license. more than half the people waiting for help (with the stupid ticketing number system) were not speaking english. not a comforting thought when our roadsigns are in english. then again, i'm apparently not such a good example. i missed two of the signs on the sign test. oops. i am still a licensed driver, though, so look out.
that afternoon, i was whisked away for the girls weekend in DELTAVILLE, VA, a place that still holds a special place in my heart. seven of us trekked up to what we refer to as "da rivah" to sarah's grantparents' riverhouse. on the way up, we received plenty of honks & even a random CD given to us by some women driving along next to us at 65 mph. you may ask why & i'll tell you. sarah had used plenty o' flourescent pink WINDOW CHALK which to write such sayings as "road trip", "sharon is 30!" & "happy 30th, sharon!" on there. thank God she refrained from writing my last name, which she almost did.
sarah: sharoni, look, i put your whole name on there!
me: great! just what i always wanted! my very own stalker!
oy vey.
there was an additional surprise when we arrived, as a friend i haven't seen in close to six years met us up there. she could only get away with leaving her two year old with her husband for one night, but i was so glad she did that.
we all spent the weekend gabbing, laughing, crying, fighting, joking, instructing, & advising on everything from dating/husbands to children to reminiscent childhood memories to the best workouts to tone up the fallen bodies. since there was not much to do with it being too cold to swim in the pool or boat in the river, we had plenty of together time. we managed to get out to go walking on the beach, take some pictures on the pier, & bike in the subdivision. incidentally, i don't recommend attempting to cram your 30 year old body on a 7 year olds BMW bike. i'm just sayin'. in addition, we have a huge-like-sputnik amount of blackmail material from the weekend on a VHS tape. i think i am also burned out on playing PHASE 10 & furthermore do not recommend it played amongst six highly competitive, irritable & cranky women. it might get ugly, folks. not that i would know. but the camera documenting some evidence of same might! i highly doubt any pictures will be forthcoming as it would sully the pristine image you might have of me ... erm, i mean others.
i felt so blessed to look around the room & see some of my friends from childhood & some of my friends from now. there could really be nothing better for celebrating one of my milestone birthdays.
& this post has been brough to you relatively sass-free.
but don't think i've lost my touch. i'll be back with a vengeance.
in completely separate & unrelated events, i went to a haunted house last night.
i was scared.
that is all.
i could write a really long & tedious entry about celebrating my birthday, which i'll probably do. but it occurs to me that not any of that writing could truly detail the range of feelings as i celebrated that birthday on october 29. yes, i'm almost a halloween baby. yes, i've heard the jokes. yes, i don't find them that funny. yes, i always had halloween theme birthday parties where our favorite game was "trick or treat" played from passing the plastic pumpkin around the circle of friends in attendance.
but, enough about that.
many thanks to all the well-wishers who made me feel treasured on my birthday. i was somewhat apprehensive about approaching thirty. after all, it is a loss of the twenties, a realization that we are now what's termed a "real" adult as opposed to a "young" adult. oh the humanity. somehow i grew up along the way & never really knew it. one day i just woke up, inhabiting an adult body, living in a house, working a job, paying my bills & (generally) being a responsible adult. nobody can really prepare you for that until you do it & even placing a number on it doesn't help. but placing that number there does mean i feel more adult in age than i do in character.
in honor of me, i took of friday & monday, although neither days were really for me, but rather for such tedious tasks as renewing the license & painting a coffee table. how adult! i spent over two hours at the DMV for renewing my license. more than half the people waiting for help (with the stupid ticketing number system) were not speaking english. not a comforting thought when our roadsigns are in english. then again, i'm apparently not such a good example. i missed two of the signs on the sign test. oops. i am still a licensed driver, though, so look out.
that afternoon, i was whisked away for the girls weekend in DELTAVILLE, VA, a place that still holds a special place in my heart. seven of us trekked up to what we refer to as "da rivah" to sarah's grantparents' riverhouse. on the way up, we received plenty of honks & even a random CD given to us by some women driving along next to us at 65 mph. you may ask why & i'll tell you. sarah had used plenty o' flourescent pink WINDOW CHALK which to write such sayings as "road trip", "sharon is 30!" & "happy 30th, sharon!" on there. thank God she refrained from writing my last name, which she almost did.
sarah: sharoni, look, i put your whole name on there!
me: great! just what i always wanted! my very own stalker!
oy vey.
there was an additional surprise when we arrived, as a friend i haven't seen in close to six years met us up there. she could only get away with leaving her two year old with her husband for one night, but i was so glad she did that.
we all spent the weekend gabbing, laughing, crying, fighting, joking, instructing, & advising on everything from dating/husbands to children to reminiscent childhood memories to the best workouts to tone up the fallen bodies. since there was not much to do with it being too cold to swim in the pool or boat in the river, we had plenty of together time. we managed to get out to go walking on the beach, take some pictures on the pier, & bike in the subdivision. incidentally, i don't recommend attempting to cram your 30 year old body on a 7 year olds BMW bike. i'm just sayin'. in addition, we have a huge-like-sputnik amount of blackmail material from the weekend on a VHS tape. i think i am also burned out on playing PHASE 10 & furthermore do not recommend it played amongst six highly competitive, irritable & cranky women. it might get ugly, folks. not that i would know. but the camera documenting some evidence of same might! i highly doubt any pictures will be forthcoming as it would sully the pristine image you might have of me ... erm, i mean others.
i felt so blessed to look around the room & see some of my friends from childhood & some of my friends from now. there could really be nothing better for celebrating one of my milestone birthdays.
& this post has been brough to you relatively sass-free.
but don't think i've lost my touch. i'll be back with a vengeance.
in completely separate & unrelated events, i went to a haunted house last night.
i was scared.
that is all.
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Happy B-day!!!
I just turned 25 too so now some college students think I'm old. I'm supposed to be more mature now right? I don't feel it.
-surge
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