The Bee's Beerday

Image above taken from an e-card sent by the lovely Jane.

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Hey Internet, today is my birthday! I hit the big three-five today, no kidding. This bee is getting a bit long in the tooth, but still as gorgeous as ever, haha!

I love how the Web pulls us all together virtually, even when we are in reality, thousands of miles apart. This week I have been receiving lots of electronic greeting cards; it’s been fun clicking on the links and getting an animated greeting, mostly humorous. E-cards kept trickling in from Chicago, North Carolina, LA. Thank you, beautiful people!

My father even had an old-fashioned card sent a week in advance, safely tucked inside a glassine sheet. Inside, his lovely penmanship said, ‘Love Always.’

I’ve been noticing it, the not so subtle changes in the way I celebrate the onset of age. The older I get, the less festive the celebration. What else can it be but maybe that party pooper virtue they call maturity. Is it a virtue, really? Apparently, the older one gets, the faster time runs out. Even the time supposedly allotted for celebrating one’s accumulated years on this earth.

Anyway, I’m just not into making a great big fuss on birthdays, and I hate surprises. In the city where I used to live, my birthdays were just vague, alcohol-suffused occasions—friends made sure of that. For some years there, a few of my birthdays were spent with the boyfriend of the moment, and that made them vaguely erotic as well as alcoholic. That was another lifetime, of course.

Today, old separated woman that I am, I just threw a pizza blowout for the folks here at the office, and boy, are we stuffed!

Later there are plans to go drinking with some friends, and who knows where the night will take us. A few drinks and some small talk will take care of the commemorating. Before I know it, in a few hours I’ll be 35 and a day.

And so it goes.

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Comments

[lee]

yow bandow. happy birthday.... i was down and out last week with migraine, tigas no? enjoy your 3 and 5...

[melissa]

Hey Fions, great to have that brief chat with you! Take care always, amiga.

Checcs! 40 rocks, and you are evidence of that. See you soon!

[fionski]

Hey Mel! Belated Happy Birthday! Been busy lately but I remembered. :p

[bakekang]

i am indeed late but thanks anyway for the beerday greeting today! happy you celebrated your 35th in bliss - say ko lang, wait till you do your 40TH!!!!!

[melissa]

More birthday greets, yipee!

Kitty: yes sagittarius, fast with the kick haha.

Wangs: Thanks, hmm yes I think I got a very surreal bday. {GRIN}

Isko! My most loyal and discerning reader. Wisdom i got that hahahah! Grace er, um, hmm, don't think so.

[isko]

Hi Meli,

You are a very special person and you deserve the best. Happy 35th Birthday. Looking forward to another year of blog-reading..."with more wisdom and grace". LOL.

[wanggo]

Heya!

Happy Birthday! Just saw the blogpost. I'm a little late but better late than never!

Hope you got all that you wanted on your birthday! :)

Wanggo

[banzai cat]

Whoops! Belated happy bee-day, bee! :-)

Sorry, late ako. Alam mo naman, us cats can't be concerned with time issues. ;-)

P.S. Sagitarrius ka pala?

[melissa]

Hey thanks, you guys!

I had a bit of a hangover because of a surfeit of red wine and jamon serrano but well, it was a fun night.

Wasabi gurl: sagittarians rule!
green bananas girl, I have been ogling your food porn, I swear I gained a couple of pounds just gawking.

Big grins to you all!

[markmomukhamo]

Hey happy birthday! Here's to more years and more stories! :)

[Fence]

Happy b'day

[kaydee]

i hope there's no hangover today... :P

[wasabi1me]

happy birthday to you thirty-something bee! so you are a december girl, too. Another thing we have in common. Mine's this sat. I wish i'm thirty something pa rin, hehe!

[Marc]

i turned 30 this year. I gathered up friends and played poker.... ofcourse i provided food..

happy bday

[santos.]

and so it goes. happy birthday, birthday bee!