Comments | mizukiaya: Omisoji! Happy Birthday to Me!

mizukiaya

Omisoji! Happy Birthday to Me!

Jul 22, 2011 14:38

Hi, everyone!!
お久しぶり！
How has everyone been spending the summer?
Lately the weather has been perfect minus the extreme heat so I've been in good spirits.

Today is my birthday. I've hit the big 3-0. Or what the Japanese call 三十路 (misoji). Oh why must they have a name for it??
Oh gosh, now that I'm an old lady...hope that doesn't make you want to de- ( Read more... )

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valkyriesailor July 22 2011, 18:52:55 UTC

Happy Birthday! Welcome by the 3X! ^^ Wear the title with pride, like we all do. It was quite the work to get here, right? ^.~

Didn't know that there is a name by Japanese for 30. O_o I only know how major the 20th is by them.
Must say though, that as in Hungary you become an adult with 18 - and can work from 16, drive a motorbike, etc. - any other age isn't handled as such a big deal.

mizukiaya July 27 2011, 04:25:18 UTC

Thank you!! It's a comfort to know I'm not alone.^O^

_miyuchan_ July 22 2011, 19:07:26 UTC

Besides isn't 30 the new 20 or something like that?
Absolutely YES!
XDDD We're still so young, I'll let people call me old lady in probably other 30 years!!!

Again happy birthday! ^_^ I miss a little the years when we used to spend both our birthdays in Tokyo karaokeing and so on...hope one day we will be able to do that again when the situation will calm down >_<

Always waiting for you to come visit Rome, don't make me go all the way to America, come on XDDD

mizukiaya July 27 2011, 04:32:04 UTC

I guess one of the great things about being an English speaker is that I don't have to deal with little kids calling me obasan.:p

I miss those times, too. It's only been a year but it seems so much longer since those days. When we're well established we should plan a trip somewhere together!

I'm still hoping to go to Rome but the trip is kinda in limbo right now because my mom is having problems with her knee. So seems like we'll have to postpone our fall trip until she feels better.T__T

omeero July 22 2011, 21:00:39 UTC

Happy Birthday best of wishes for you XoxO

mizukiaya July 27 2011, 04:36:11 UTC

Thank you, omeero!! Thanks so much!XD

dilettantka July 22 2011, 22:19:10 UTC

Happy birthday, girl! This might be poor timing since a lot of people go into shock over turning 30, but I can't believe you're 30 lol ♥ for me it was kind of anticlimactic, but then again you may not have spent all of your 29th year like OH GOD THIS IS THE END OF EVERYTHING!!! and then woke up the day you turned 30 and went "...but everything is the same?"

Have a wonderful year!

mizukiaya July 27 2011, 04:48:20 UTC

komawa yo! thank you!!

Honestly, I can't believe I'm 30 either. I ask my mom every year to tell me the truth about my birth year. I mean the early 80s are all a blur to me. But I can't deny it, I definitely remember 86& up. :/
So I'm accepting it and happy that at least I'm not 40 yet.:p
I'm also grateful that I still look younger than my age. As long as people can't tell how old I really am...it's almost as if I haven't aged at all.:)

wagashi July 22 2011, 22:43:31 UTC

Happy birthday!!! I can't believe you're 30, you definitely don't look/act it! It's so weird how differently we view age here and in Japan.. In Japan it's considered such a bad thing but here we just look at it as different phases of life that are to be enjoyed. I hope you enjoy your thirties! It helps to not feel old, for sure.

mizukiaya July 27 2011, 05:25:59 UTC

Thanks, wagashi!! That's so true about the different views in Japan and US. Reminds me of when I was at a Tokyo Anime Center recording and Matsuki Miyu who was like I think 32 at the time was complaining about her body breaking down, getting back aches and being an old woman. And I kept thinking "????" Unless the age in her profile is a lie, she's not THAT old. But she was making a big deal about it like she was already in her 50s or something.