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Keeper of the Superfluous Es! ([personal profile] themostepotente) wrote2010-03-30 12:01 am

Let Me Show You My 4-0h Face!

Today, 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
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[personal profile] mordyn4 2010-03-30 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno, I think I'll finally get the nerve to have my eyebrow pierced when I turn 40. :P

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, P!!! :D

[identity profile] froggie.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday on 40 years young!

I am 21 years old...but I'm getting there. I hope to still be involved with fandom in some form when I do. For my 40th birthday? I think I'd like to throw an orgy. I know people who do and it seems to go quite well.

If not, cuddling with a significant other/flavor-of-the-night with some good Italian food and some white russians (the drink, although some pretty Russian boys would be nice too) also works.

[identity profile] nehalenia.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
OMG, it IS your birthday already! Happy Natal Day to you! Do not fear the 40s, amazingly enough, they are quite wonderful. It's that decade where you start to really not give a damn what other people think and all the stuff that drove you bonkers in your 20s and early 30s just sort of slides off. (Not that new stuff won't drive you bonkers, but it's a nice change.)

I think your plan for the year sounds fantastic, and I can highly recommend going back to school during your 40s. I'd say a good 80-90% of my teachers have been thrilled to death having a 'non-traditional' student in their classes.

Eat cake, drink champagne, set something on fire, and start enjoying your 'I don't gotta please nobody but myself' years. :D *hugs*

[identity profile] nehalenia.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Rockin' icon!!!

*rubs on it like a cat on a new purse*
ext_14568: Lisa just seems like a perfectly nice, educated, middle class woman...who writes homoerotic fanfiction about wizards (Birthday - happy birthday)

[identity profile] midnitemaraud-r.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
I couldn't remember what I did for my 40th. :-P (Turns out I went with Beth a few days after to see Sir Ian in King Lear. Hee!)

Happy Happy Happy Birthday, babe! Welcome to the club. 40's really not so bad. I think it's 50 I'll be dreading more. (and that's only 7 1/2 years away. Ack!)

I'd love some cake, but the ice cream would be better with some Kahlua & Baileys! And a blender. :-P

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[personal profile] venivincere 2010-03-30 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOVE! *hugs you tight*
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[personal profile] megyal 2010-03-30 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY P! For my 40th, I want to do something I consider outrageous, like skydive or drive a racecar.

[identity profile] vikingcarrot.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! *hug*

[identity profile] treacle-tartlet.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
♥ ♥ ♥ HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY! ♥ ♥ ♥

*applies fire extinguisher to cake*

My 40th is still a decade away, but I plan on celebrating by looking back over my 30s and congratulating myself for not killing anyone.

Or at least for not getting caught.

Hopefully.

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[identity profile] oldenuf2nb.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday, my dear. Sounds to me like you're having a lovely party!! And let's see; what did I do on my fortieth.... I must really be old, because I don't remember doing much of anything!

[identity profile] vaysh11.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
!

and welcome to the forties, which are a great, perhaps even the best decade. I had a catered party at my 40th, with Middle Eastern food and a mathom for each guest. I had discovered fandom only months ago. Friends did the most embarassing slide show of my life, people wrote a round-robin story and I got money to get me to Bangkok but I never went. *shakes head at self*

Have a stupendous day, darling!
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[identity profile] annephoenix.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
Long time no see
Happy Birthday!!!

[identity profile] catsintheattic.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! I wish you an awesome day and 365 more until you celebrate again.

On my 40th birthday, I had a party with all my friends and we had a great time. I find that with every year, I grow more into who I really am, and I like that quite a lot.

[identity profile] melusinahp.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
Hooray! Happy birthday, lovely. Go over to my LJ and leave me a prompt. :D

[identity profile] perverse-idyll.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
Happy happy happy 40th, my dear! May your forties be fruitful and fascinating and sexy and creative and splendiferous and prolific and a source of great pleasure to you! I'm so glad to be here to witness you raise your glass and blow out your candles. *squishes you in a big, welcoming hug* I've left my forties behind, but I can still help to usher you into a decade of potential delights.

Also, hasn't anyone ever told you? Grey hairs are sexy! At least they are to me.

(What was I doing on my fortieth birthday, you ask? Messing up my life, that's what. *facepalm* Do what I say, not what I do, okay?)
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[personal profile] cordeliadelayne 2010-03-30 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!!

[identity profile] painless-j.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! How pleasant to type this as a first thing after getting up :)

I wish you lots more of wonderful days with your head above the dirt :) Keep having fun and sharing it with us all :)

[identity profile] leashy-bebes.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! I have no real feelings about age cause my mum and dad are some of the youngest 50+ year olds I know, so yeah, am never getting what I consider old, and it doesn't sound like you are either. Never take out the lipring!

*BIRTHDAY HUGS*

[identity profile] nishi-shinji.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday

[identity profile] dark0feenix.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday, Penny! ♥ *toasts to the next wonderful 40 years with your head above the dirt to come*

[identity profile] spike7451.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
Who's down for c and ic?

...I am. :D

I vaguely remember 40, I'm 60 next year, I feel sooo hold.

[identity profile] libby-drew.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
Happy 40th, love! May this be the best day ever. ♥

[identity profile] phoenixacid.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
Let me contribute more porn to the orgy, er, squishy marriage. :D

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I hope you'll continue to enjoy that Malfoy-approved brandy and keep on rocking! Have a fantastic day! *snuggles you*

[identity profile] amanuensis1.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday! I ain't growin' up either, so. *joins you*

[personal profile] snegurochka_lee 2010-03-30 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday!!

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