Today marks my 28th year on this planet.
Woo! Happy birthday to me!
Here are 28 birthday facts about me:
- 1.) May 12th is the 132 day of the year.
- 2.) i was born on a Monday - Monday's Child is Fair of Face
- 3.) i was born at about 8:45 pm
- 4.) i was a week early
- 5.) i am a Taurus with a Capricorn Rising sign
- 6.) because my mom had such a long labour in the hospital with my older brother, she stayed home a lot longer before going in - and i was born almost as soon as they got there
- 7. ) i was born 6 days before Mount St. Helens errupted. Even way up north in Alberta, my mom says she remembers hanging out my baby clothes and diapers to dry on the line, and bringing them in all black from the soot that had carried way up into Canada.
- 8.) When i was little my mom used to bake me "barbie" cakes, and she'd put one of my barbies in an angel food cake and decorate it like a big beatiful dress
- 9.) I always thought being born in 1980 was so cool because it would be easy to tell how old i was by the year it was... if it was 1988 i was 8, if it was 1996 i was 16... if it was 2008 i was 28. I remember figuring that out and thinking i was sooo smart...i was probably 6 or 7
- 10.) My first co-ed birthday party that involved "boys that i liked" was in 1990 and we all piled into our old Chevy van and we went to see The Little Mermaid at the Drive In Theatre. Jason D was my *boyfriend* and we sat next to each other
- 11.) On my 13th birthday in 1993 - my grade 7 class was playing soft ball for phys ed, last period, and i was playing shortstop. I ended up catching a pop fly with my face - which resulted in a broken nose, and a lot of blood.
- 12.) i remember being simultaneously mortified and ecstatic that the super cute boy i'd been crushing on was playing 3rd base and was the first one there to see if i was okay, i wasn't - there was a river of blood gushing from my nose and spraying up on my shoes - i desperately afraid that some of my blood would get on HIS shoes.
- 13.) The day before my 14th birthday, something very special was taken from me.
- 14.) On my 15th birthday, i was the new-girl in school and for my birthday party we watched some movie, i think it was "Stargate", i can't really remember - B-rad and i spent the majority of it making out.
- 15.) At some point in my high school career, i had a big birthday party, and we spent the night around the firepit on our deck. It was a riot, especially when someone threw in a margarine container filled with motor oil. FOOM!
- 16.) When i was dating Dickface, he bought me an oversized stuffed dog for my birthday - i hated it... i didn't even really like dogs. For years it ended up being used much like a bean bag chair in my family's basement.
- 17.) I remember one year, Paige invited me over after school one day. (i can't remember, was that 10th grade?!?) and on the school bus to her farm. She rode the bus with our friend T, who was having our friend L over that same day. The four of us chatted all the way to Paige's bus stop, and we got off the bus... i didn't even realize until T and L hopped off the bus and yelled surprise that i had totally been had. It was a super fun party - i've never had a surprise party before. It was a totally fun girly night! (THANKS AGAIN PAIGE!!)
- 18.) I spent my 19th birthday - the age of legal drinking in The Skatch - drunk off wine that my Auntie had sent home with me after visiting her in Vancouver. I spent the day after my 19th birthday experiencing the joys of a Red Wine hangover.
- 19.) My 20th birthday was extremely memorable for me. B-rad and i were back packing in Europe and were in Vienna for a few days, scheduled to take the train to Amsterdam on my birthday. While we were site-seeing we decided to take in an Opera at the Vienna Operahouse to see Ben Hepner, a boy from The Skatch. While we were in line to get tickets, we saw that Carmen was playing in 2 days! So, we extended our stay in Vienna and i got to see Carmen, in the Vienna Opera House on my 20th birthday. It was beautiful warm weather, and as we walked home from the opera we stopped for Gelato and shared a sub from Subway. perfection.
- 20.) I share my birthday with Jason Biggs (The pie Fucker), Kim Fields (Tootie from the Facts of Life), Stephen Baldwin (one of those Baldwins that isn't Alec), Tony Hawk (Skateboarder Extraordinaire), Emilio Estevez (EMILIO!!!), Vign Rhames (that dude with the bandaid on the back of his head from Pulp Fiction), George Carlin (hilarious Standup, and also Rufus from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure), Burt Bacharach (what the world needs now...), Yogi Berra (The ball player, not the loveable grizzily bear), Katherine Hepburn (Classy dame), Florence Nightingale (Educating Nurses), Gabriel Faure (French Composer), Farley Mowat (Canadian Writer), and Paul D'Amour (the original bass player for TOOL)
- 21.) I always sing Cartmen's Birthday song to myself on my birthday.... (My B-b-b-biiirthday)
- 22.) Many times in my childhood, i've had to share Mother's day with my birthday. It only just dawned on my yesterday that for the REST of my life, Mother's Day and my birthday will be rolled into one gift or card. Sigh.
- 23.) as of today i am 10,226 days old.
- 24.) 28 years can be converted into: 883,699,200 seconds, or 14,728,320 minutes, or 245,472 hours, or roughly 1461 weeks.
- 25.) i will be 1,000,000,o00 seconds old on Thursday, January 19th - 2012 at 10:31:40 pm (give or take)
- 26.) last year for my birthday - i hosted a "Dress as a Movie Character" birthday party - i went as Ted from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, and B-rad was Lil' Alex from A Clockwork Orange
- 27.) for the past 4 or 5 years my mother has given me a Harry Potter book for my birthday. Now that the series is over, she wants to know what i want...
- 28.) i don't know what i want for my birthday.... i just like to be surprised.
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