Wow. That was a busy Free For All Friday! :-) There were 8 guest posts!  I spent a good part of my free time yesterday trying to get people to sign in and post too! ;-) Thank you to all who did post! ;-) The next FFAF will be on May 26th, so if you didn’t get a chance to post this go around, there’s always the next one! :-)

You may notice some weird things in the Short Stats box in the sidebar. I’m trying to change it up over there a litle bit.  I want to show how many comments (and posts) an individual logged in user has made, but for some reason it’s not showing the correct values. I’ve contacted the person who wrote the plugin so hopefully I can get some help with that.  I got the basic idea from Joelle, and she even let me have a look at her code. I think she’s using a diff version of EE than me though, cause while hers works just fine, mine is all farked. I’ll get it eventually. Or, well, I won’t and It will just go back to the way it was before. 

Wow. I cen’t believe it’s nearly May already. Woot Woot for the Birthday Month! ;-)

Hey there, all. Aurura here, special guest on this beautiful blog.  Thanks to Luka for inviting me! 

(walks sheepishly off of the stage)

It’s birthday season all around, with Luka’s one day after my own. I’ll be a whopping 29 on May 16th. I tell you, this one is frightening me. I sailed through 21 and 25. But as 29 crawls ever closer, it dawns on me that this is my last year as a “twenty-something.” I think back to events in my life and it baffles me to realize that times which feel like a few years ago are in fact, over ten years in the past. How can that be? Where did those years all disappear to?

I remember the birthday parties at home full of school friends and brightly wrapped presents. I remember blowing out all the candles and what an accomplishment it was to do it one try. I remember wearing a silly costume dress one year and feeling like the queen of the world. I remember the Huffy bike that came from my sister as a last-minute surprise and the years of fun I had on it broadening my world and exploring my neighborhood. I remember days spent with family, nights out to dinner, times enjoyed at Disney. A swirl of color and smiles; of people and places both past and present.

So, no one remembrance of a single birthday past from me today. More of a contemplative overview of life - and therefore birthdays - overall.

Come join MissM in counting down to her 29th birthday over at Given Eyes To See

I usually just let my birthday pass on by without telling many people because it’s so early in the year that most people forget or don’t want to think about it because they are receiving their bills from christmas shopping.  What kills me the most though is that my mother will come to me months later saying I have your birthday card in my office if you want to come get it.  The first time that happened I remember her saying meet me at the elevator months later and I did to get my bday card.  We work at the same place.  I just hate birthdays and don’t tell a soul when it is to avoid it all.  Blueyes

My best birthday ever was getting a call at 3am from a close friend telling me she was in labor, and I’d better come quick.  She was having a home birth, and I was one of the attendants.  The birth was fairly easy, as births go, and was attended by her two daughter’s, husband, midwife and me.  Her 3rd daughter was born on my birthday and named after me.  I went home, took a short nap and had a great party.  What a day! 

I was rapidly heading toward 16 years old.  It was cold (my birthday is in December) and we had to march (I was a band geekmember in the annual Christmas parade.  It was on a Saturday, 4 days before the big birthday.  At about 1:00pm, the doorbell rang.  I was busy doing chores around the house, as was my mother, while my dad lay on the couch like a big fat turd, doing not a damn thing.  He barked at me to go get the door.  I was furious with him for that.  He wasn’t doing anything, why didn’t HE go get the stupid door.  He wouldn’t budge, so I stomped to the door (in that way that only teenage girls can) and jerked it open.  There, on my front porch, stood my grandparents!  I had no idea they were coming into town for any reason, but there they were. 

Many greetings were exchanged, I finished my chores and headed out to get ready to march in the parade.  After the parade, I thought we were headed home, but we went by an apartment building where a family friend lived.  My mom blindfolded me and they led me into the rec room of the apartment complex.  When she pulled my blindfold off, there were 30 of my good friends/family screaming “SURPRISE”!  My mom pulled off a great surprise birthday party - which is why my grandparents were there.  :) That was the birthday that I was given my most precious material possession.  My cedar hope chest.  I love my hope chest, it sits at the foot of my bed and everytime I see it, I think of that birthday and how great it was. 

So yes your right it is birthday season again.  Next month is filled with lots of birthdays including mine. Now every year from childhood my brother and I would always have a joint party. With our birthdays only 6 days apart it was the best way for my mom to do it.  I don’t have any cool childhood memories of any of my birthdays. I know sad isn’t it.  But on my 18th birthday we had a huge blow out. Kegs of beer, liquor, food, a pool and lots of good company.  I had all my closets friends there. The best present I got that night was the ring I still wear that i received from Ethan, a road sign from Church and Searle rd, and a traffic barrel with a blinky light on it.  Ahhh I miss my friends.  Here I am coming up on my 25th birthday. What should I do to celebrate this special occasion?  I have 17 days to go.  Ohh wow thats really soon

Happy FFAF my dear, I am running around today like a chicken with its head cut off. I am trying to make sure that I have everything done before I go back to work on Sunday. I hope you have a great weekend.

I just recently signed up with friendster...because my sister forced me to.  I don’t want to at first since I know that my classmates generations are not computer savvy.  But fine...i signed up.  And of course...I only have like my sister and my brother.  Then I told my co-worker to sign up as well.  And then me and my co-worker talked about this friendster thing.  He got his account since it was beta lol.  And he only got like 4 friends.  So mine got 4 friends as well.  And suddenly out of nowhere...I got this IM from one guy.  I often got requests from those weird people and people who want to advertise something.  So i denied it.  And he sent me a message again saying that he’s an old friend from grade 1.  He told me his name.  So i was like… were you that guy who is like pretty white and kinda small?  And he said yeah that’s him. 

Amazing.  The thing is I’m not close with my high school friends.  I’m close to my college and uni friends.  I only keep in touch with 4 of my best friends who knew me since we were like in kindergarten.

Hm...I doubt that I’ll get more friends request.  Not that I hope or expecting any.  I rarely log on to friendster anyway.. I have another account which I created in my uni years.. hi5.com.  And my friends told me that I took a long time to approve them.  :D yeah..well sue me.

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