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My favorite picture of me:
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I thought turning 40 was going to be difficult, but it wasn’t too bad…especially after one of my kid’s friends didn’t believe me last week when I told her I was that old (Kristy, you are raising Chloe right!).
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41 is harder than 40. 40 is 40, but 41 is "being in my 40s."
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My husband’s mom died when she was 41, so that also makes it weird because it’s a number we’ve talked a lot about.
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I would get botox or something done on my #11 wrinkles (the two lines between my eyebrows).
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I am having a lunch date with my husband today as a birthday treat.
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I love singing really loudly to John Denver songs…but I never sing out loud in public places. Including singing the Happy Birthday song at birthday parties.
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I used to hitchhike in high school and I sometimes I tried techniques I learned from the movie
It Happened One Night.
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If I could go back and whisper something into my own 11 year-old-self’s ear it would be, "Don’t worry that you have to miss Happy Days on Tuesday nights because you have to go to ball room dance class…someday you will get to meet
Potsie and
Ralph Malph!"
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My mother couldn’t remember what we did for my 1st Birthday.
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When I turned 12 my mom gave me a bike for my birthday. It was stolen. I kinda wanted a bike this year for my birthday.
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One of my favorite birthdays was spent eating lunch with my dad at the counter of the cafe in The Bon Marché in Tacoma when I turned 14. I ate a hot dog for lunch. That place had the best hot dog buns.
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Some years my birthday was like Mardi Gras and I spent several days celebrating. Especially the year I turned 21!
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One year I made it a point to do something I never had done before on my birthday. It ended up not being a good idea after all.
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I loved celebrating my birthday with my mom. My mom always made my birthday feel special. One year she wrote me a long letter inside of a book all about the year I was born. That was the last birthday she was alive for.
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I haven’t been out of bed yet today except once to pee and it’s going on 10:30am. I’ve been laying with a blanket my mom made for me. Seems like a nice way to spend the day (until the lunch date).
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I refuse to do laundry on my birthday, so I may have to stop at the store for new clothes before I go to lunch.
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I used to throw my own birthday parties regularly because I love birthday parties with themes and I always wanted a Princess Party. I had one when I was 34 and my dad was living with us. In order to keep my dad from crashing the party I told him that if he came into the room he would have to tell my friends the story of my conception. He stayed out.
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My husband threw me a surprise party when I turned 35 that was amazing! It may have been more expensive than our wedding.
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I stayed up until after midnight last night to turn 41 awake.
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I’m pretty sure I should stop getting acne now.
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I am grateful every single day for the friends that have helped me out when I have had difficult times, but in particular when I was beaten up by a boyfriend and when my boy was sick. Those were two huge defining events in my life and I didn’t have to go through either alone.
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I hate phrases that are supposed to make me feel better even if they are true (things that didn’t kill me did make me stronger, but I still don’t want it stitched to a fricken pillow).
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I love Wikipedia.
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I love the idea of running, but don’t actually like to run and always feel like I’m going in sloooooooow motion when I try even if I’m being chased.
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I really wanted to be 5′8′’ or at least 5′7′ instead of 5′6&3/4". Especially if you figure people shrink and someday I won’t even be the 3/4 part.
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I’m going to make a cherry pie today. Nearly from scratch (the bing cherries are in can, but I will make the sauce).
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I’m going to help finish two science fair projects today and try not to have my kids hate me by the end of it.
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I need external praise.
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I have very little self control.
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I can blame my parents for everything wrong with me, but they are also behind everything good about me.
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I love pretty things that sparkle and told everyone that would listen (and a few who tried not to) that I wanted things that sparkled for my birthday. My family wrapped my presents in shiny/sparkly wrapping paper. Good listeners.
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I think my husband is trying really hard to keep me happy. It’s been working.
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I will be a wonderful grandmother someday, but only one of my kids say they want kids someday (coincidentally it is the one that would not have to push a baby out of any part of his body).
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I think too much about how I’m going to die and hope like crazy it’s not most of the ways I’ve imagined it happening.
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I like my kids most of the time, but I do really worry about getting through the teen years without major scars.
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I think I’m going to let my bangs grow out, and my hair. Until summer. Then I might cut it. Or not. I like my hair, but wish I hadn’t gone gray so early, but I’m not willing to spend the time or money to change it.
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I think in long run on sentences.
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I have lots of good ideas, but I suck at implementation.
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I believe. In what exactly, I don’t know.
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