Posted by beardedlady on May 3, 2002, at 6:38:44
In reply to Re: serious birthday blues » ELA, posted by CtrlAlt n Del on May 3, 2002, at 6:03:35
Here's the song we sing here:
Hippo Birdie Two Ewes
Hippo Birdie Two Ewes
Hippo Birdie Deer ELA (phant)
Hippo Birdie Two Ewes.Dr. Eamer's right; get yourself some kiddie goods. A pogo stick is fun. And go outside and hop awhile. Got in-line or roller skates? Let me tell you what: I have always been a low-grade depressed person but just thought it was normal to not ever be really happy about anything for more than two minutes. I got some in-line skates in about 1988 or 1990, and that "wheeeeee" feeling lasted a long time! Skating is so freeing. I used to skate a lot more before I had a child (every morning; it was my exercise), but it is always such a wonderful feeling. Besides getting the exercise to boost your endorphins, you're doing something so fun you don't notice you're exercising.
Anyway, my 21st birthday was pretty uneventful. My 29th birthday was my worst, but my early thirties rocked. Something to look forward to, ELA.
Don't think about what you haven't accomplished. (You're too young to have done much of anything!) Think about the things you'd like to do.
What Dreamer said about the sign is great. I was having an especially bad time on my 34th birthday because I was expecting this terrific day. It was gorgeous outside, and I was up early and wanted to go to the Renaissance Festival. My husband didn't want to go and had never been, but I told him how much fun it was, and he agreed to do it for me for my birthday. It's about a half hour away, but when we got to the exit, there was a back up. It took us almost forty minutes to get from the exit to the place (it's two miles), and when we got there, it wasn't even possible to park, so we turned around and went home. I was a weepy, sobbing, nasty, angry mess.
But my sister got me a cake that said, "Happy F*****g Birthday" on it, and it really cheered me up. (She'd asked the cake lady behind the counter at the grocery store to write it, but the lady said she didn't feel comfortable with it, so she offered the tools to my sister, and my sis went behind the counter to do it!) Anyway, it was a funny surprise. So my best girlfriend made strange concoctions of frozen mudslides mixed with Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia, and the three of us and my husband sat outside getting drunk in the sun, and then we took naps.
Now I'm rambling. But I do hope you have a better birthday than I did that year. I can hardly imagine a worse one!
beardy : )>
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