The Chattering Crow: It's my birthday

Thursday, September 11, 2014

It's my birthday

It's twelve minutes after one, so it's officially my birthday. I'm seventy-two, still wearing lipstick and pearls. And shoulder pads, evidently.

Here's a selfie.

8 comments:

UnknownSeptember 11, 2014 at 7:32 AM
You look fabulous! Please do tell us how your stay at the Budapest Hotel was and if Ralph Fiennes is as smooth a kisser as he looks!
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Tom PlummerSeptember 11, 2014 at 8:51 AM
Happy birthday, my love.
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Anne LouiseSeptember 11, 2014 at 5:32 PM
Happy Birthday, Grandma! I'm so excited for your birthday tea party. We're so classy.
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BethSeptember 11, 2014 at 6:33 PM
Happy birthday! I expect to see you looking like this at our next dominoes gathering.
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BlueSeptember 11, 2014 at 9:35 PM
Awww, she's got nuthin on you. It's awesome to hear you're having a tea party with grandies. What could be more fun?! xo ♥
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RobinSeptember 12, 2014 at 8:03 AM
Happy Birthday!
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twebsterarmstrongSeptember 12, 2014 at 8:48 PM
Dominoes? Tea Party?

Sheesh. I've got to get a life.

Great thoughts for your birthday. Happy to know you.

~ Tricia
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BardsleylandSeptember 15, 2014 at 3:54 AM
Happy belated birthday! I've never met you, but I love reading your blog. Thought you should know.
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You can quote me:

"The beautiful is as useful as the useful." Victor Hugo
"I don't want the damned sportsmanship award."
"Jesus glows in the dark like my pajama tops" George Plummer, age 4
"Our parents are crazy as hell." Sam Plummer, 2016
"Grandma, your hands are old." Sally Plummer, age 3.
"Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts." Wendell Berry
"Sitting is the new smoking is the new bullshit." Tom Plummer, 2014
"Never move an old tree." Dutch saying.
"I am universally offensive." Dede Plummer, 2014
"I don't want to see any movie with the word 'guys" in the title." Tom Plummer, 2013.
"Please bless Grandma. And Grandpa. That they can have a nice time. In their apartment." Louis Plummer, age 4.
“Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.” George Saunders
"Hello, my name is Tom, and I'll be your spouse this evening." Tom Plummer, 2012
Me: " Jesus knows EVERYTHING." Hank (10), "Yeah? How many fingers am I holding up?"
"In my end is my beginning." T.S. Eliot
"Nothing has prepared her for the wide, grey simplicity of sadness and for the knowledge that this is what the rest of her life will be like." Carol Shields
"My life has been a fog, but the only light, the only clarity-- has come from the simplicity of putting permanent ink on paper." Rian Plummer, age 17.
"When I die I'm leaving my body to science fiction." Steven Wright
"Does anybody need to go poopies?" Louis Plummer, age 3
"I grew up in the wide and spacious building." Charles Plummer, 2011
"Pride is a such a useless handicap." Christina Putney
"You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret" — Rainer Maria Rilke
"Don't retire; retread your tires." Lucy Jarvis
"Grandma is never boring." Mira Plummer, age 8
"Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkien
"The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want." Iyanla Vanzant
"Being in your body is a good place to be." Beatrix Ost
"I'm the world's oldest teenager." Iris Apfel, age 89