I have a LiveJournal tradition of posting every year on my birthday. That seems to be my only remaining LJ tradition (well, no, that's not true, I do read LJ on a daily basis, which surely counts as a tradition) because I've only made one other post since my last birthday ( Read more... )

I think basically all I've done since Thursday night is eat really good food. Oh yeah, I did go swimming on Friday, so there's that. It's been a wonderful weekend, and now I have family visiting, so I'm looking forward to a week of more fun. As always, it's good to be the birthday girl!

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Today I celebrated my birthday on Martha's Vineyard. Despite growing up in Massachusetts, this is my first trip to the island. It's lovely here, quaint and peaceful and sunny and not too cold.

My birthday included:
- chocolate pancakes
- alpacas!
- houses like candy-colored gingerbread
- a clam roll
- ice cream
- a lighthouse- drinkies ( Read more... )

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The calendar has rolled around again, and now it's once more my birthday. Perusing my previous birthday entries, we can detect a certain theme involving food, and also note that every year I'm required to say, "It's good to be the birthday girl." Well, it is. Today I am 33 years old, the weather is beautiful, my brother is visiting, I'm drinking ( Read more... )

It has been brought to my attention that the last two years on my birthday, I posted saying, "It's good to be the birthday girl." So I couldn't let this year go by without that being said ( Read more... )

Today I am 32. (Older than I've ever been, and now I'm even older.) Every year, "half my life" encompasses more. This year I can say that I've been driving for half my life (including learner's permit time -- I have to wait till 33 to say I've had my license for half my life ( Read more... )

I returned from my travels a week and a half ago, so it's really time I finished writing up the rest of my adventures. I uploaded my photos some days back. Check out the Flickr set of trip photos. There's also a separate set with more photos from the house concert. ( The end of Lisa's trip: the text adventure )

My 31st birthday was low on excitement, as I was anticipating, but it was very pleasant and relaxing. ( details )