happy_birthday_claire well wisher have_a_beautiful_day! 031116 ... bird indeed. have a happy one, you. 031116 ... Doar happy blue to you. 031116 ... REAListic optimIST happily birfily day tooooo j000000000 happily birfily day tooooooo j0000000 happily birfily day deeeeeaaar clairEEEEEE happily birfily daaaaaaaay tooooooooooooooooooooooooo j0000000000000000000000000! 031116 ... jane !yadhtrib yppah 031116 ... no reason happy birthday 031116 ... BigPIA PIA 031116 ... notme appyhay irthdaybay 031116 ... shivers how many candles on the cake? happy b-day 031116 ... silentbob HAPPY_BIRTHDAY!!! 031116 ... ferret happy candle! 031116 ... ferret ... errrr birthday... 031116 ... ClairE Yesterday: I wake up to the phone ringing. It is my mother calling and it is 11:24. "I'm standing in Best_Buy. What color phone do you want?" Now that I know what my present is, I grumpily tell her I don't care and she should ask the salesperson and after hanging up, drop the handset on the floor. After dressing in the same outfit from the party I attended the night before, I clean ferociously and Annie111 shows up for her visit. We go out to dinner with a bunch of my friends for my birthday, and then we meet up with hey now! and our friend Amanda to drink ourselves silly. After four Smirnoffs and some amaretto, I am ready to go dancing. It just happens to be drag night at the club, and I almost throw up but Annie111 lets me lay my head in her lap. Then a boy grabs her and then repeats over and over, "I am so sorry. I am sorry." I feel someone scratching my head in a friendly way, so I turn around expect to see one of my friends. Some strange girl with a beard painted on gives me a smile. I turn around and dance very close to Annie111. We come home and check out blather and I make some drunken_phone_calls to a certain young_man out in California, then Annie111 tells me it's time to go to sleep. My actual birthday: I wake up to the phone ringing. It is my mother and it is 10:30. "Did you actually expect me to be awake?" "Yes." Annie111 and I get her some breakfast, then we meet up with my family and she drives home. They have brought me too many presents and I am embarrassed and I tell them so. Then we all go out to eat. They ask me whether I want to be cremated, and tell me all about the cult of the new dentist. My parents leave the restaurant while my brother and I are still talking. He and I finally exit to find my dad standing on the sidewalk smoking a cigarette. We read the sign above him: $1 Dollar Store. My mother is lost to us for at least another half_hour. They finally leave and I go to dinner with hey now!, and then I go to the newly opened upstairs floors of the dining hall for the Mirah concert. Now I am home and I blathed Mirah, all about my adventures. Mirah is singing from my CD player, "I'll wait for sleep", and that's what I'll need to do tonight, because I skipped orchestra rehearsal and it is Sunday and in six minutes it will be Monday and I am getting behind in school, but I am twenty and the days just keep coming one by one and I always love November. Thanks to everyone for their well wishes; I hope the same for everyone else. Maybe I am getting sappy in my excitement and with all the sugar I have ingested today, but blather is something important, and I truly appreciate that I am a part of it. 031116 ... pipedream heppy burday. *hands you a balloon* 031117 ... Annie111 Happy birthday, freakazoid. I know where you live!!! 031117 ... ClairE 41. 241116 ... nemo just testing the interface 241120 what's it to you? who go blather from