... Already?
Friday, October 6th, 2006 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanalehI am 34 today! I suspect this means I have crossed the dreaded border from "early 30s" to "mid-30s". However, I feel so powerful and fabulous and flush with possibility these days that I can hardly object.
"But Erica, when's your birthday party?" Technically, it will be rolled into the Nov. 4 festivities chez![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ablock. Otherwise, it's getting a little lost in the holiday shuffle (rather like last year's Rosh Hashanah/Tzom Gedalia birthday). Tonight, being the Shabbat of Sukkot (as well as the first night of the holiday), is the appointed date for the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
tremontstshul 20s&30s Potluck Sukkah Dinner, so while I'll be celebrating with several of my closest friends, it will be in the midst of about 40 other people I know rather less well. :-} However, there is a half-sheet birthday cake lying in wait at the shul, and I encourage anyone who wishes to stop by and make a l'chaim in the sukkah with me tonight.
In more festive news, though: Last night, Tiger Boy took me to Corteo, andmuchabstracted gifted me with a terrific (and, characteristically, mythologically resonant) mix CD, and we all treated ourselves to overpriced but glorious Cirque merchandise. The t-shirt I bought isn't even on the website anymore, ha! but I am super pleased with it and wearing it today. (Plus onetwolittleb was our cashier, which was a fun surprise.) 'Rah!
And remember... The Margaret Ghost opens a week from tonight! Reserve your tickets now!
*goes off to do some work before running out to pick up birthday sushi*
"But Erica, when's your birthday party?" Technically, it will be rolled into the Nov. 4 festivities chez
ablock. Otherwise, it's getting a little lost in the holiday shuffle (rather like last year's Rosh Hashanah/Tzom Gedalia birthday). Tonight, being the Shabbat of Sukkot (as well as the first night of the holiday), is the appointed date for the tremontstshul 20s&30s Potluck Sukkah Dinner, so while I'll be celebrating with several of my closest friends, it will be in the midst of about 40 other people I know rather less well. :-} However, there is a half-sheet birthday cake lying in wait at the shul, and I encourage anyone who wishes to stop by and make a l'chaim in the sukkah with me tonight.In more festive news, though: Last night, Tiger Boy took me to Corteo, and
muchabstracted gifted me with a terrific (and, characteristically, mythologically resonant) mix CD, and we all treated ourselves to overpriced but glorious Cirque merchandise. The t-shirt I bought isn't even on the website anymore, ha! but I am super pleased with it and wearing it today. (Plus onetwolittleb was our cashier, which was a fun surprise.) 'Rah!And remember... The Margaret Ghost opens a week from tonight! Reserve your tickets now!
*goes off to do some work before running out to pick up birthday sushi*
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Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006 03:58 pm (UTC)I was going to insist that you guys see Corteo after Michael and I went to see it, but then I read on your blog that you were already going to go. :) Awesome awesome show.
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Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006 04:08 pm (UTC)time to sing!
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Grief and sorrow fill the air,
Children dying everywhere.
Happy Birthday ...
Plague and famine in the air,
People dying everywhere.
Happy Birthday ...
Doom, destruction, and despair,
People dying everywhere.
Happy Birthday ...
Gloom and doom and dark despair,
People dying everywhere.
Happy Birthday ...
Fear and gloom and darkness but
No one found out You Know What.
Happy Birthday ...
May the cities in your wake
Burn like candles on your cake.
Happy Birthday ...
See the women wail and weep.
Kill them all but save the sheep.
Happy Birthday ...
Hear the women wail and weep;
Kill them all but spare the sheep.
Happy Birthday ...
Rape the women while they sleep,
Kill them all but save the sheep.
Happy Birthday ...
You're a period cook, 'tis true;
Ask the beetles in the stew.
Happy Birthday ...
Now your jail-bait days are done;
Let's go out and have some fun.
Happy Birthday ...
May your deeds with sword and axe
Equal those with sheep and yaks
Happy Birthday ...
You must marry very soon;
Baby's due the next full moon.
Happy Birthday ...
Your servants steal, your wife's untrue,
Your children plot to murder you.
Happy Birthday ...
They stole your sword, your gold, your house,
Took your sheep but not your spouse.
Happy Birthday ...
Were I sitting in your shoes,
I'd go out and sing the blues.
Happy Birthday ...
Though you're turning 29,
Age to you is like fine wine.
Happy Birthday ...
So you're 29 again;
Don't tell lies to your good friend.
Happy Birthday ...
Now you've lived another year,
Age to you is like stale beer.
Happy Birthday ...
So another year has past,
Don't look back, they're gaining fast,
Happy Birthday ...
Long ago your hair turned grey;
Now it's falling out, they say.
Happy Birthday ...
Now you've lived another year,
And your death is drawing near.
Happy Birthday ...
Now you've reached the age you are,
Your demise cannot be far.
Happy Birthday ...
Black Death has just struck your town;
You yourself feel quite run-down.
Happy Birthday ...
It's your birthday; never fear:
You'll be dead this time next year.
Happy Birthday ...
We brought linen, white as cloud;
Now we'll sit and sew your shroud.
Happy Birthday ...
Happy birthday (UH!) Happy birthday (UH!)
All the world is sad and dreary
Happy birthday (UH!)
Happy birthday (UH!) Happy birthday (UH!)
Pain destruction and despair
People dying everywhere
Happy birthday (UH!)
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Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006 04:41 pm (UTC)Well, feel free to add more in comments over in my LJ, as I've just posted these there.
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Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006 04:25 pm (UTC)Mazel tov! I turn 34 in less than a month myself, and I have to tell you, my 30s have kicked ass so far, so I for one am looking forward to my mid- and late- 30s :)
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Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006 04:33 pm (UTC)Alas, we won't make it to the sukkah tonight, but enjoy!
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Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006 04:57 pm (UTC)Enjoy the great taste of birthday sushi.
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Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006 05:16 pm (UTC)Of the barbed ribs and the poison heart.
I would show you the view of life from the floor
but the knees are as far as you go.
I give you exhibit A.
A country girl bludgeoned with an elephant tusk.
I give you everything I have wrapped in a shy kiss for you to use once and then destroy
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Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006 05:53 pm (UTC)-- No, I'm sorry... it's good... very moving.
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Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006 06:02 pm (UTC)*sends hugs your way*
Oh, and chag sameach! I'll have a l'chaim tonight in your honor, since I can't make it to Boston to be in the Sukkah with you. :-)
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Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006 07:18 pm (UTC)Tsu dayn yontev haynt,
Hobn zikh farzamlt
Dayne gute fraynt. (2X)
Hurah, hurah mir vintchn dir,
Hurah, hurah mir vintchn dir,
Mir vintchn dir gezunt un glik!!!
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Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006 08:07 pm (UTC)Hugs,
k.
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Date: Saturday, October 7th, 2006 02:10 am (UTC)(don't forget to breathe...I can lend you my t-shirt if need be)
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Date: Saturday, October 7th, 2006 02:22 am (UTC)[am i a touch drunk? can you tell?]
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Date: Saturday, October 7th, 2006 10:53 am (UTC)w00t!!!
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