My Birthday
Jan. 9th, 2007 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shakatanyToday is my birthday - whee! And incredibly I'm still 39! (thank you Jack Benny wherever you are *g*)
We celebrated it this morning by going to the town dump. A few years ago we celebrated it by going to a memorial service for a friend's grandmother. I've learnt to expect the unexpected on my visits.
Yesterday we arose at the crack of dawn so we could make it to the Lowell Memorial Auditorium by 10 to witness a friend become an American citizen. It was gloomy and rainy and we didn't make it to the Auditorium until 10:30. However the judge was delayed so it didn't start until 12:15 - if we'd known I could've stayed in bed longer *grumbles*. There were about several hundred people who became citizens in a ceremony that was both moving and horribly boring in parts (forget abut the waiting almost 2 hours part). We all sang the "Star-Spangled Banner" and I actually remembered the words (it's been decades since I've sung it) and at the end, listening to "God Bless America" I got a little teary and resentful at the line "stand beside her and guide her" as God has done such a lousy job by guiding so many of us to Dubya recently.
My birthday present to me is to upgrade my lj to a Plus Account so I can add 9 more icons (GreatestJournal lets me have 2000 and sent me a birthday greeting - tell me again why are we all on lj?)
We celebrated it this morning by going to the town dump. A few years ago we celebrated it by going to a memorial service for a friend's grandmother. I've learnt to expect the unexpected on my visits.
Yesterday we arose at the crack of dawn so we could make it to the Lowell Memorial Auditorium by 10 to witness a friend become an American citizen. It was gloomy and rainy and we didn't make it to the Auditorium until 10:30. However the judge was delayed so it didn't start until 12:15 - if we'd known I could've stayed in bed longer *grumbles*. There were about several hundred people who became citizens in a ceremony that was both moving and horribly boring in parts (forget abut the waiting almost 2 hours part). We all sang the "Star-Spangled Banner" and I actually remembered the words (it's been decades since I've sung it) and at the end, listening to "God Bless America" I got a little teary and resentful at the line "stand beside her and guide her" as God has done such a lousy job by guiding so many of us to Dubya recently.
My birthday present to me is to upgrade my lj to a Plus Account so I can add 9 more icons (GreatestJournal lets me have 2000 and sent me a birthday greeting - tell me again why are we all on lj?)
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Date: 2007-01-09 07:19 pm (UTC)Me, I'm heading for 46 and I don't care who knows it. I earned this, dammit!
I may smack the next 20-year-old who simpers "I don't like telling how old I am". Though I might just say, "I think he's asking so he knows if you're legal to fuck or not."
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Date: 2007-01-09 07:33 pm (UTC)It is sort of silly as my birthdate is in my userinfo but this is what contemporary society does to us - makes age something to dread. I always keep in mind Gertrude Steins' adage that "We are always the same age inside."
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