Birthukkah!
This year's birthday took on the tone of some miraculous Hebrew celebration wherein I got a present every day of the week leading up to My Birth Day. Or rather, it would have been my own personal Hanukkah if Jack hadn't been so slammed at work. "I have a present for you," he said Monday, "but I left it at the office." On Tuesday he said, "I have two presents for you now and they're both at the office." On Wednesday he came home with three packages of identical size and heft. The first one was Pineapple Express, the second one was the Criterion edition of Bottle Rocket, and the third one was Forgetting Sarah Marshall. This man I live with, he knows me.
What happened Thursday? A walk on the beach with the dogs and the driest bottle of Champagne known to humanity, or at least the driest, cleanest Champagne I have yet experienced in my vast lifetime. (My lifetime, it is vast. And notably shallow.)
Friday was dinner out with Jack and my friend Louis Roederer, and now, today, I have sitting next to me (cuddling up coyly with my new Lamb Chop hand puppet)(and I love that link because the photo caption says "Lamp Chop") a ridiculous booklet describing the vintage Dom Perignon we'll be drinking later:
God, I miss smoking sometimes.
What happened Thursday? A walk on the beach with the dogs and the driest bottle of Champagne known to humanity, or at least the driest, cleanest Champagne I have yet experienced in my vast lifetime. (My lifetime, it is vast. And notably shallow.)
Friday was dinner out with Jack and my friend Louis Roederer, and now, today, I have sitting next to me (cuddling up coyly with my new Lamb Chop hand puppet)(and I love that link because the photo caption says "Lamp Chop") a ridiculous booklet describing the vintage Dom Perignon we'll be drinking later:
"This wine is full of life, with a fresh nose that dances through a spiral of aromas, blending hints of angelica, dried flowers, pineapple, coconut, cinnamon, cocoa and tobacco. With a fullness in the mouth, its earthy, smoky, pearly complexity rises to the surface, underscored by the vibrant warmth of peppery spice. The sensation of intensity develops and melts into a deep, rounded heart, with a fruity, exotic maturity and a slight touch of aniseed. This sensation, almost unsettling, is even more pronounced in the finish, while the notes of spice, still present, remain discreet, with toasted, iodine flavours."Someday I hope that will describe me: a deep, rounded heart, with a fruity, unsettling maturity and notes of toasted iodine. Maybe wearing one of those coconut bras, and smoking a cigarette.
God, I miss smoking sometimes.
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Happy birthday!
I love the new layout...Oh, and I just remembered that I had a dream about you an Cookie last night. I can't remember any of the details except that you were both there and I think we were on the beach...
Premonition maybe?
Thanks, lady! I bet Cookie would love to come visit.
Happy Birthday, indeed. I think that's the best dog photo I've ever seen. :) And the gifts? Wonderful. My own birthday month is going great. HBB gave me new measuring cups and spoons last week. I cannot wait to see what lies ahead.
This post has everything a blog post needs. Perfection.
Love the new layout, and the library thing is so so cool.
Happy Birthday! Love the new look.
Happy Birthday! Lucky you having an extended birthday. Bottle Rocket is pure indie genius.
I love the perspective of the last photo. You must have been seriously crouching, your dogs look rhino sized.
Happy birthday!
Sounds like a great way to celebrate. Happy birthday!
Happy Belated Birthday! Yay Capricorns. Also, I had a lamb chop puppet as a kid, but I made her eat berries and it stained her mouth and it she never felt right after that. The end.
Happy birthday! For my part, I recently quite enjoyed Gran Gesta brut rose cava. Sparkly, pink, crisp. A toast to you!
Happy Birthday.
The add on your Blogher ad screen is for Barney.
I find that freakin' hilarious.
Erica, posting on her husband's account
Oh my God, I hear you about the cigarettes. I miss smoking so much. Only now, it has been long enough that I get nauseated just thinking about actually doing it. But I miss the calming effect in tense situations, the fussy business of it, the excuse to just drop everything and dash outside for a smoke. It's irreplaceable.
Oh, and Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! I love your coat in the photo in the car.
happy birthday!!
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Happy birthday!
Love that description. We should all aspire to fit that one.
Happy belated! And yes, Capricorns do, in fact, rule. /31dec
Hey, Norm, happy birthday to you, too! And to all Januarians.
Siobhan, the coat is a Marmot and I LOVE IT.
Thanks again, everybody. 2009: so far, so good.
Happy birthday, Eden! Love the dog butts. And I mean that sincerely.
Happy birthday, Eden! Love the dog butts. And I mean that sincerely.
Secretly I still think of smoking now and again. But since the children want "a little some" of whatever I put in my mouth, I'd have to share the cigarette with the little buggers. Probably not mother-of-the-year stuff. More like future-therapy-material stuff.
I wish I was strong enough to miss smoking...been trying to quit for years. Love your site. New to blogging and just started my own this week. Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Eden! That's a great shot of you and Jackson. The dog butts too :)
Love the new blog header!
Happy belated birthday! I love the mirror shot of you and Jackson. :-)
happy birthday! i totally love you
Well, look here at all this gorgeousness! What a pretty page.
Happy birthday, Eden. Seems to me, your heart is already deep.
Happy Birthday. A vintage Dom!! Why don't you just plunge a knife in my heart?
OR GIVE ME A DOG.
i do not enjoy those bums near as much as you might think.
honestyrain
For you birthday, you gave your blog a facelift. Very natural-looking, I could hardly tell.
Happy birthday.
Oh, and it says "momsversation" over there on the left. You gonna fix that?
that last pic of the dogs is priceless.
P.S. happy new year!
i miss smoking sometimes too.
love the dog butts.
happy birthday.
champagne is my favorite.
Amen sista. I miss it, too. Love the new layout, thought maybe you fell off the face of the earth there for a while.
Cheers!
Oh MY God! Those photos are freakin hysterical!
I am way behind on my reading, which is why this happy birthday is so freaking late.
Happy birthday!
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