Let Me Show You My 4-0h Face!
Mar. 30th, 2010 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
themostepotenteToday, I am 40 years old.
We have a saying here in the D: 'Every day with your head above the dirt is a good day.' I've had 14,600 good days, and I consider myself blessed.
Sometimes, I do wonder how I made it this far. There have been some crazy times. Skydiving, motorcycle stunts, train dodging and that time I tried to surf and nearly drown, bitchslapped by a ginormous wave.
This is my seventh year in fandom, and I wanted you all to know how special you are to me. You've stuck with me through the good times and the bad, and it's been like a marriage of sorts. One big, squishy porny marriage.
So, pull up a chair one and all. A sofa. A chaise. A recliner. A barstool. Let's have a party! There's champagne, absinthe, Laphroaig and Malfoy-approved brandy. Tell me about your fortieth birthdays. Or tell me how you plan on spending yours when the time comes. Ha ha - or kindly tell me to fuck the hell off, because you are NOWHERE near your fortieth and plan on staying twenty-one forever.
This year I plan on going to Japan, returning to school and WRITING SOME DAMNED FIC. And not fussing over grey fucking hairs. A good dye job works wonders, yes?
Somewhere, I know my mother's looking down on me and wishing her baby a happy birthday. This, of course, would be followed by a frown and a 'You're 40 now, it's high time you took that stupid ring out of your lip.'
*nearly sets a big fucking cake on fire with a shitload of candles*
Who's down for c and ic?
--P
We have a saying here in the D: 'Every day with your head above the dirt is a good day.' I've had 14,600 good days, and I consider myself blessed.
Sometimes, I do wonder how I made it this far. There have been some crazy times. Skydiving, motorcycle stunts, train dodging and that time I tried to surf and nearly drown, bitchslapped by a ginormous wave.
This is my seventh year in fandom, and I wanted you all to know how special you are to me. You've stuck with me through the good times and the bad, and it's been like a marriage of sorts. One big, squishy porny marriage.
So, pull up a chair one and all. A sofa. A chaise. A recliner. A barstool. Let's have a party! There's champagne, absinthe, Laphroaig and Malfoy-approved brandy. Tell me about your fortieth birthdays. Or tell me how you plan on spending yours when the time comes. Ha ha - or kindly tell me to fuck the hell off, because you are NOWHERE near your fortieth and plan on staying twenty-one forever.
This year I plan on going to Japan, returning to school and WRITING SOME DAMNED FIC. And not fussing over grey fucking hairs. A good dye job works wonders, yes?
Somewhere, I know my mother's looking down on me and wishing her baby a happy birthday. This, of course, would be followed by a frown and a 'You're 40 now, it's high time you took that stupid ring out of your lip.'
*nearly sets a big fucking cake on fire with a shitload of candles*
Who's down for c and ic?
--P
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:06 am (UTC)Peace,
Bubba
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:09 am (UTC)I like squishy, porny marriages. They're the best kind. And I think you should know it's never time to take that stupid ring out of your lip. NEVER.
And also, I plan on staying 21 forever. Until my lungs or liver gives out. ;)
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Date: 2010-03-30 05:31 am (UTC)*rubs on it like a cat on a new purse*
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:16 am (UTC)I'm only 31, but I suspect I've got more gray hair than most of my flist. ;-p Let's just say I have a white stripe with scattered frost.
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Date: 2010-03-31 03:21 am (UTC)Thanks for the birthday wishes <3
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-31 03:18 am (UTC)And happy birthday to you, too <3
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-31 03:36 am (UTC)♥ ♥ ♥
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-31 03:39 am (UTC)*hands you a Stella* To us!
♥
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:21 am (UTC):D
Happy birthday!
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Date: 2010-03-31 03:43 am (UTC)Flora, you will always be like a mommy to me no matter what your age. You always have stellar advice and you expertly bandage my hurts. *loves on*
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:25 am (UTC)♥ ♥ ♥ HAPPY BIRTHDAY! \o/
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Date: 2010-03-31 03:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-30 04:26 am (UTC)Hubby took me out for a seafood dinner for my 40th, and afterward we went to the Halloween store and looked around a bit before buying a costume for my daughter. It was a good day - not all that exciting, but good.
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Date: 2010-03-31 03:50 am (UTC)Seafood is always a good thing. I had filet mignon and jumbo prawns. *G*
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:27 am (UTC)::snicker snerk:: Well, I daresay that's better than most marriages these days!
I HIGHLY APPROVE of your goals for the next year! And I hear blue is great for covering up gray hairs. Or orange. Or purple?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :D
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Date: 2010-03-31 03:53 am (UTC)Oh, man, this reminds me of the time I glomped the wrong green-haired gal at Sectus.
Um, Rowan?
No.
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There's more than one person with green hair here?!?!?
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:32 am (UTC)*GIANT HEARTS*
You are awesome and amazing. I hope you know that.
(And I'm right on your heels with the big 4-0 in two years. Let's kick ass in our 40s, shall we? \0/)
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Date: 2010-03-31 03:55 am (UTC)I'm told I need to speak with you about arranging a Snape and Draco birthday striptease. *G*
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Date: 2010-03-31 03:58 am (UTC)Me an' Vincent Van Gogh share a b-day, so I might have to pick Starry Night in both our honours. *G*
♥
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:38 am (UTC)Overall, I'm enjoying my forties.
My fortieth birthday was the best I'd had in years. I celebrated at a work Christmas party, but after that, the group I was with dragged me out to a karaoke bar and plied me full of copious amounts of alcohol. And I triumphed by NOT succombing to the call, and I remained in the audience. Best for everyone, I assure you.
I've been a single mom since age 26, and 40 was the turning point for me. It's like I'm done with that stage of my life where my kids take up all my time and energy. I'd lost sight of me as a person (besides being a mom or an employee), and I vowed to change that. To get a piece of me back. My kids still come first, but I make time for me now.
So ... my forties have been liberating. It's been three years since I made that commitment to myself. The time has been filled with ups and downs, but I no longer feel guilty doing things just for me.
Oh, and hair dye is a wonderful thing. ;)
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Date: 2010-03-31 04:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:39 am (UTC)But whatever:) and my skin? Looks damn good.
Also my hubby had a surprise 40th party for me with all my best friends from childhood to now attending. I think it is awesome that my three best friends have been my best friends for over 30 years.
:) and I still love fanfic, comic books, anime, and video games and right now that makes me damn cool in the horde's eyes.
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Date: 2010-03-31 03:47 am (UTC)And how can the horde not think you're cool? I think you're cool, too <3 <3 <3
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Date: 2010-03-31 03:40 am (UTC)*clinks beer steins*
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:54 am (UTC)May your fifth decade be the best one yet! (Counting the single digit years as one decade, the fortieth birthday is the gateway to the fifth decade. Sounds like a 60s psychedelic band.)
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Date: 2010-03-31 03:32 am (UTC)THE 5TH DIMENSION! I think I still have some of my parents' old records put away, and I know there's some 5th Dimension vinyl in there somwehere!
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:58 am (UTC)I turned 40 last summer, and yes, there was a point where I didn't think I'd make it this far either--but it's great to be here, isn't it?
My mom is an internationally-famous belly dance instructor. I remember travelling with her to SE Asia a few years ago (as her go-fer and technical assistant), and when she led a seminar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, there was a lady who had flown all the way from Beijing just to take her class.
People who know this ask me, "Did she teach you to belly dance when you were a kid?" And the answer is NO, SHE DIDN'T because she started belly dancing as an empty-nester hobby when she was in her early 40s and I was long off to college and gone. Her second career is so much more HER, uses her talents and taps into her real passions, far far more than the job she had in her 20s and 30s (schoolteacher) was.
So she's my growing-older role model. It's why I don't believe that Women of a Certain Age are doomed to frumpy haircuts and mom-jeans. I just hope that when I'm 62 I can wear a sparkly beaded dance ensemble half as well as my mom did when I saw her perform again last year. Men in their 20s gnaw their wrists Lenny-and-Squiggy style when she dances. But she pays them no mind.
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Date: 2010-03-31 03:28 am (UTC)Ha ha, Lenny and Squiggy style? I loved Laverne and Shirley growing up. HULLO!
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Date: 2010-03-30 05:06 am (UTC)Got about 2 1/2 years left til my fortieth. If I have the fundage, I may get a tattoo or possibly a brand to mark the occasion.
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Date: 2010-03-31 03:25 am (UTC)Oooh, what sort of tattoo were you thinking of getting?
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Date: 2010-03-31 03:23 am (UTC)I be good. How the hell are you, Deej? *smewches back*
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