When people hear that I'm a December baby, many feel sorry for me, thinking what a bummer it must be to celebrate my birthday so close to Christmas. But I've always liked it. My sister's birthday is the 27th of December, just ten days after mine, with Christmas in the middle, and so December was party month in the Red Seven household growing up. The month began with the opening of the first window of the Advent calendar (the kind with pictures, not the ones with chocolate that my nieces and nephews currently enjoy), and it just seemed like we celebrated all month long. I actually felt sorry for kids who weren't born in December and only had one reason to celebrate, whereas my family had a veritable smorasbord of reasons to be hap-hap-happy.
So yeah ... today's my birthday. Thirty-seven years on the planet as of 6 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, or thereabouts. Last night, the adoptive lesbian moms took me out for Chinese food and the most amazing drag show on earth; tonight, back in DC, I'm having dinner with 18 of my closest friends at a family-style Italian restaurant, because these folks are my family of choice.
I'll see the parental units and the rest of the family of origin next Sunday, and we'll celebrate both my birthday and my sister's big 4-0 on the 27th. Leave your birthday wishes in the comment box below, and don't feel bad for me. December babies have more fun.
December 17, 2007
Happy Birthday to Me
dreamt up by Red Seven on 12/17/2007
File Under: Adoptive Lesbian Moms, Our Nation's Capital, Parental Units, Tunefulness
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30 Told Me a Secret:
Happy Birthday! It sounds like you're gonna be having a lot of fun. And eighteen people is A LOT of people. The more, the merrier. :)
Growing up in a family without a lot of money, I was happy not to have a December bday. That would've likely meant you got less presents overall.
Happy Happy Birthday!
You are so right...December babies DO have more fun. We're way better looking than most of the population, too.
Enjoy your gigantic dinner!
xxxooo
Eat some Italian for me! The food, not the-- well, actually you can do that to.
Happy Birthday!
*smooches*
Happy Happy Day of Celebrating Your Birth! Sounds like you got a wonderful start to the festivities, and tonight will be even better.
Eat the frosting. Make a goood wish. Rip the wrapping paper in a celebratory frenzy!
Happy day, Eric.
(Where, pray tell, will you be seeing the parental units? Your end of the country, or theirs?)
Happy Birthday! Enjoy the Italian, and I hope the food is good too.
Happiest of Birthdays to you and here's to many more!
Big birthday hugs Eric!
Antonio: Oh, we didn't have a ton of money either, but Mom was known to start her Christmas shopping in May and finishing in October, leaving November to buy what we really wanted in the moment for our birthdays.
Helen: Aren't we tho'? Glad I'm not alone in that opinion.
JP: Yum. That is all.
Janet: Back atcha.
Cowbell: Like I said, all of December is a party as far as I'm concerned. And the parental units and I will meet halfway, in my sister's home in Kansas. But never fear, I will travel to the top left corner ere long!
EG: Thanks so much -- I know I'll enjoy the food; not sure if another Italian is in my future, but I'll wish for him!
TJ: Thanks so much!
Al: Those would be birthday *bear* hugs, right? Just checkin'.
Happy, happy birthday, dear!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! No go out and enjoy yourself!!
Happy Birthday! Sounds like a fun time you've got planned there.
Lorraine: Do I smell applesauce cake?
Steve: Thanks!!
Greg: Dinner isn't until 8, but I plan on having a great time.
Java: I hope so! It's been fun, and it's gettin' better.
Happy, harpy birthday, Eric!
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Happy Birthday!
Mom: Harpy? Well, if you insist! Let's see what to complain about? How about the fact that the Hat hasn't shared a bit of webtastic awesomeness with me ALL DAY??!!
Hat: Oh ... scratch that.
Dennis: Thanks, hon!
Happy Birthday to You! and many more
HAPPY, HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Eric. Have a fun time with your 18 friends (I don't think I ever had 8 friends)and be merry for your 40 year old sister.
Well, third time's the charm. Happy Birthday again, and I must concur with you and Helen. Sagittarius' are part horse after all, just sayin'.
37? Great age! "Ready, set, go" have a year to remember in your elder years :)
(gazing into crystal ball....mmm...) I see a year with "new" romance prospects somewhere near that rainbow in the sky... get the music cued up and turn down the lights.
Hey, it was worth it to read through all your birthway well~wishes to catch jack's viewtiful picture.
Jack: Thanks!
Ro: I will! And did Hat tell you what I'm buying the sister for her 40th?! Win win!
Tater: Ride 'em, cowboy.
LoveMyLife: Isn't that something? And yes, I'm already seeing some "newness" in my immediate future, and I'm hoping I'll be able to blog about it in a couple of days. Big changes on my horizon, and it all looks like sunny weather from here ...
Damn right Eric - December babies do have all the fun - well except for those born on the 25th, though come to think of it the Western Christian world is celebrating their birthday too! Now that's one big birthday celebration.
Happiest of Birthdays - with both families.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY...late as usual. Dang! I always say, you can drag your b-day out as long as people still haven't said anything about it.
happy bday! same day as my son if it is the 17th!
a belated happy birthday, you brilliant, charming, funny, creative, incredible man. the world is a brighter place with you in it.
Willym: Don't we, tho'? And I certainly did, thanks.
Monica: It's never too late! Thanks for the well wishes.
Citymouse: Yep, we share a birthday, then. Hooray for us!
Lynette: Thanks so much, dearie. Glad to see you're back!
Happiest Birthday do you!
A belated Happy B-day to you! xo
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