according to my sources, today is National Baked Scallops Day. happy happy! i hope everyone goes out and celebrates accordingly. the scallop is one of the items from the sea that i find most enjoyable (most likely because it doesn't look, taste, smell or act fishy). most especially when the little mollusk is wrapped in bacon...
and speaking of bacon, my favorite pig part was the theme of a most incredibly awesome and factual belated birthday present post from dear reader soulspeak23 - thank you again! - i was once part of a Staten-Island-Mall-bought best friend charm with her (it was one of those snazzy three-part ones, for all us BFF trios out there), and this was clearly a reason why. but enough of my nostalgia - just go over there and read it!
and speaking of birthday present postings, i did celebrate a birthday over the weekend - a kickoff to my late 20's, filled with flowers and fun and friends and a most awesome dinner. and then an awesome dinner party. and then an awesome family dinner. and then 3 more dinners to come between this week and next. whew! at the rate i'm being fed, i may not see my thirties.
its funny though, as i hadn't thought of 28 as a big deal age - then suddenly there are high school reunion talks and the realization that i'm reaching the "OMG, we've been friends for a decade. a whole decade!" point with a bunch of college friends - and i guess that 28 is some sort of milestone (even if its only really a milestone because its a milestone distance from the milestone of 18).
and then i read an article on christina ricci - an actress i never liked for the sheer fact that her name is rather similar to my own - and she brought up how she believes in 7-year cycles, and that everything in life changes in these 7-year phases, and as she just turned 28 too, she was looking forward to her new fourth cycle. i found this kind of interesting as i've been dealing with a number of big changes lately, so i'm just going to attribute them to the fact that my big shiny new fourth phase is starting as well.
i was now supposed to nicely tie this in to the life cycle of a scallop, but hell, they apparently can live until age 18, a number not easily divisible by 7. ah well.
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awww...the BFF charms! I so remember those and how supremely cool we thought they made us. I actually had dinner with Suzanne about a year ago. Same old crazy girl.
Here's a scary thought: Those BFF charms have the possibility of being purchased almost 20 years ago!! We go back to 3rd grade, no?
happy smurfday (or "smurfy smurfday," in smurf)!
perhaps i can smurf you out to lunch when i smurf into the office at the smurf of the month?
ss23 - you did?! how was she? can i request a real life BFF charm holder reunion? and i unfortunately only go back until the 5th grade with you guys (i was the latecomer bklyn transplant)...so i guess its only really our 18th anniversary (which is still a long. freaking. time.)!
ITM - smurf you!
you most smurftainly can! i am holding my smurf until you arrive in smurf york city, and we can go out and have a smurftacular time.
She was good, same old Sue, just a little calmer! And we should totally have a BFF charm holder reunion. She's on my myspace, if you feel like looking her up.
We just have to wait a little for the reunion cause I'm moving this weekend and my brain is not accepting dealing with any issues past sunday right now! Talk to me on Monday, and we'll set something up!!
Wahay! Happy (belated) Birthday!!
Don't worry about being 28 - I'm 30 and still act and feel like I'm about … 12?
Isn't Waffle Day sometime around this time of year?
ss23 - nice, i will email you about this like a normal person instead of setting up reunions via blog comments. =] good luck with the move this weekend!
tim - thank you!! if you act 12, that makes it ok for us to act 10, right? perfect...
i think we still have a few more months to go until waffle day, unfortunately...although, isn't every day a good day to appreciate waffles?!
Yeah, go on then. Hell, let's just say 11s all round!
I think you're right - any day is a good day for waffles!
..and even better if they're smurfy-good BELGIAN waffles!!
tim - good. we hope you had some waffles this morning then!
itm - whoa...hadn't even thought of that connection! belgium is now officially my most favorite country.
makes so much sense what you're going through. i just learned about "saturn return"...
From WIKI:
The Saturn return is a regular astronomical occurrence relevant to the science of astrology to occur in a person's life at approximately 27–30 years of age and again around the age of 58–60, with the third and usually final occurrence around 86-88.
The planet Saturn takes approximately 29.5 years to orbit the Sun; when it returns to the exact degree along the ecliptic it occupied at the time of a person's birth this is referred to as their "Saturn Return".
Saturn is symbolically/astrologically associated with time, challenge, fear, doubt, confusion, difficulty, seriousness, heaviness, unwanted burdens and hard lessons, among other more positive things such as structure, significance, accomplishment, reflection, power, prestige, maturity, responsibility and order – this is why astrologers believe that the thirtieth birthday is such a major rite of passage and is considered by many astrologers to mark the "true beginning" of adulthood, self-evaluation, independence, responsibility, ambition, and full maturation.
itm - thank you! this is really interesting. from now on i'll just blame everything on my 'saturn return'...
totally, me too. it's like a giant cosmic period.
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