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October 23, 2005
Good Things about 33
33 1/3 record albums.
The "33" on the bottles of my beloved Rolling Rock.
Likewise 1933 was the year Prohibition ended.
33 degrees - one degree above freezing. Cold enough to make me happy. Warm enough to prevent me from busting my ass on the sidewalk.
33 miles from my current house to this one, which I would love to call home by the time I turn 34.
Things I've Enjoyed so Far About Being 33
Having Ketel One apple martinis poured down my gullet by Stacey. My liver and I are no longer on speaking terms.
Fondling Beth's gorgeous hand-knit sweater.
Picking Angie's brain about the publishing biz.
Discussing the immense fear of producing baby #2 with the other Angie. Not that the other Angie and I are planning to reproduce together. We're not. I didn't get that drunk.
Making out a little with Mindy's gorgeous little dog. Yeah, that's totally sick, but I only did it because her dog (on the left) looks a lot like Anderson Cooper.
Commiserating with Jane about the new guy at our coffeehouse, who doesn't understand the concepts of "gift certificates" and "dozen".
Seeing Chris for the first time in a year and a half. He was here maybe ten minutes before he was doing illegal things on my computer. It's good that in a world of change, some things remain constant.
The way PKB kept pouncing on Kara.
Attempting to knock the little spikes out of Joe's hair with wads of gift wrap. He's never going to want to come back to my house, and I can't say I blame him.
The lovely hand gesture Kara flung over her should in my general direction as she stomped off to bed.
The birthday gift I got from B. I ain't saying anything else other than I'm not talkin' about my newly-painted kitchen this time.
The birthday was tragedy-free and great fun. I can't remember ever feeling this great on Oct. 23rd. And that's even with all those appletinis.
Posted by Robin at October 23, 2005 01:17 PM
Comments
Yay! I'm glad nothing blew up or caught on fire! Maybe it's the start of a new tradition of incident-free birthdays.
Posted by: Eulallia at October 23, 2005 02:43 PM
Hey, your birthday, your home. Consider yourself inside the Joe hair de-spiking circle.
Here's to tragedy-free birthdays!
Posted by: Joe Greenlight at October 23, 2005 02:49 PM
hmmmm sorry kara. i guess i just don't see enough of you guys.
hoping your birthday was as special as you are, poppy.
Posted by: pkb at October 23, 2005 03:39 PM
Mmmm...I think those were the same appletinis that Stacey was pouring down my gullet last weekend. Good, huh?
Although your phrase brings the image of you laying on your couch, holding your nose shut with your mouth open while Stacey stands above you pouring appletinis down your throat from a beaker.
Glad it was a good birthday!!! Wish I could have been there for the drinking, de-spiking and bird flipping. ;)
Posted by: beege at October 23, 2005 03:53 PM
See? Birthdays are going to just go up from here! I'm so glad it was a good day for you.
Posted by: DixiePeach at October 23, 2005 05:29 PM
Thank you for having me. I was honored to share it with you and happily surprised that I felt relaxed enough to mingle with all those people that I didn't know. I was expecting the house to be broken in half by the time I arrived.
p.s. I convinced Paul to have cupcakes for his birthday--those were pretty good cupcakes.
Posted by: Jane at October 23, 2005 06:20 PM
heh. i didn't mind the pouncing at all, PKB. :) even if you were trying your hardest to get me drunk. :)
Posted by: kara at October 23, 2005 07:07 PM
argh...stupid typepad..
So you got ice cream right?
Posted by: mindy at October 23, 2005 10:24 PM
I would also love for you to call that house home - cute! What are you waiting for? And congrats on the disaster free birthday. I would've loved to witness Kara's, um, hand gesture ;)
Posted by: jess at October 24, 2005 11:15 AM
Glad your birthday was totally bad incident free. My husband also has traumatic birthdays where terrible things happen -- I'm hoping this year, his will be incident free like yours.
Posted by: Katya at October 24, 2005 12:29 PM
The birthday sounds divine. My sister turned 33 today and at two weeks past her due date and with a horrendous case of hemorrhoids, she was wishing for a gulletful of martinis!
Posted by: Nancy at October 24, 2005 04:25 PM
Sounds like it was great fun! So glad it didn't suck. :-)
Man, I wish I could spend my birthday with PKB. :-(
Posted by: Barefoot Cajun at October 24, 2005 04:45 PM
Happy Belated Birthday, sounds like all went well.
Posted by: Mina at October 24, 2005 07:42 PM
Happy Belated Birthday! Glad it was a good one. :-)
Posted by: carrster at October 25, 2005 08:43 AM
Happy belated birthday! The house is cute and almost in my neck of the woods. I have a coworker who used to live in that area, seemed like a good neighborhood. Then again I was only there once. Err, twice.
Posted by: Jen at October 26, 2005 12:23 AM
