birthday

Why this candle?Why this cake?The day of my birth is not today.I was born when you said, 'Hey.

The holy time establish the holy-event.

Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred."Six years to the day we met, Harry, d__eh remember it?""Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn__ you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig__ tail, and tell me I was a wizard?""I forge_ the details," Hagrid chortled.

I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am a poem. I am the soil and a gem. I am a stargate and a voyage. I am the ocean and your soul.

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birthday is on June 9 or something. Just read up on the traits of a Gemini. Suddenly you're a multitasker who loves the color yellow. Because not only do you get stuck with them combo gift, you get the combo song. "We wish you a merry Christmas - and happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas - happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Ye - Birthday, Terry!

It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.

WHAT 28 FEELS LIKEEvery year of your 20s is subject to a very specific set of emotions, at least that__ what I think. 21 is great for obvious, surface-level reasons. 22 is a train wreck if you graduated in four years, and are then thrust into real life. 25 is when pretty much everything changes _ from your priorities to your body. And, then, there__ 28. I don__ know what it is about this age in particular, but I__e deemed it __he Crisis Year_ and here__ why.1. The realization that you__e now officially in your __ate 20s_ is enough to send you straight into the climax of a full-blown panic attack. You don__ even get to start at the beginning of the said attack, no. You wake up on your 28th birthday, screaming and dry heaving. It__ an instinctual reaction to knowing that, for the next 365 days of your life, you will be teetering on the fine line between actual adulthood and clutching on desperately to your youth.2. Because you__e now in your late 20s, your parents start to treat you more like an GULP adult. Even if you__e been paying your own way since forever, maybe you both secretly knew deep down that, in case of a huge emergency, asking them for help wasn__ off-limits. But, when 28 hits, it__ no longer an option.3. You just feel old(er). There__ something about the curvy lines of the number _8_ that cast a darker and much more serious shadow over things. You__l still go out to popular nightlife establishments, but you will be internally ashamed about your age the entire time you__e there. And the horror if someone is to ask you how old you are! Being 26 in a nightclub is vastly different. Probably because you__e still in your mid-20s and because the shape of the number _6_ is naturally fun and loopy, so it makes you feel safe.4. Everyone you know is getting engaged.5. Everyone you know is getting married.6. Almost everyone you know who is married, is pregnant.7. Let__ face it _ after graduation, no one__ never not getting married. Before your eyes, your Facebook feed turns into an endless stream of engagement announcements. And, unless you decide to cast yourself out of society, this parade of seemingly happy couples moving forward together won__ slow down until probably age 30. But there__ something about the specific age of 28 that lends itself to just being drowned in marriage announcements no matter where you turn. It__ either couples who have been together for 6+ years finally taking the plunge, or __eal world_ couples who met a few years ago and got super serious, super fast. Either way, it__ a single 28-year-old__ worst nightmare.8. Being tw0 years away from 30 is a bleak reality to face. Four years is like no big deal, because that__ an entire university experience. But two? Two will soon be one, and then you__e 30. 20somethings are delusional in many ways, but one of the biggest is how we think, by 30, our entire lives should be figured out. Married, babies, dream job, bla bla bla _ all by 30. It__ a subtle attitude we all have that wants to scream, _30 OR BUST!_ But, the closer you inch toward that milestone birthday, the more you realize what a total crock of shit all that is. And how you couldn__ be further away from having it all figured out if you tried.9. Going back to one of the first points I made, being 28 is like being a brand new, beginner__ level gymnast, perilously seesawing between __eal_ adulthood and (what feel like) the last crumbs of your true youth. Half of you feels an enormous pressure to fully grow-up, while the other half of you is crippled by the notion of doing so. On one hand, you are sort of ready to get serious about love, career, and overall responsibility. On the other hand, you just want to continue making out at random, dating idiots, and generally freaking the fuck out over the future. Every day you wake up, there__ no telling which of these two ideals your mood is going t

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I'm sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn't go out, or I wasn't invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.

I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.