Weekly Roundup: Happy Birthday To Me!
How’s my birthday weekend going? Just lovely, thanks so much for asking!
I haven’t ever done a “top posts of …” kind of blog post so far.
Not quite sure why, maybe I was too lazy, maybe I didn’t want to pimp my own posts, maybe I just never got around to finding a good enough hook for it.
But today I’m going to try that. Since it’s my birthday weekend and all.
Here are seven posts that have been published on this blog – both from guest authors as well as myself – that I’d love you to check out, if you can.
And if you like them, or have a different point of view to add, it would be an awesome birthday present if you were to comment and/or share it in any way you felt comfortable.
Hey, just because my birthday was over yesterday doesn’t mean the presents can’t keep rolling in!
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Today’s my husband’s birthday.
He’s not like me at all. He doesn’t like much being made of him; he’s content to be the strong and silent type while I blather away.
Perhaps that’s why we’ve been happily married for almost 11 years (coming up in July).
I’ve met a great many wonderful people in my life, and I’m sure a great many are to follow. But I can’t imagine, for one moment, anyone who would top this wonderful man.
… who puts up with my ABBA and Elvis manias …
… who has never questioned – but, in fact – encouraged – me in everything I’ve done …
… who is the most intelligent, funniest, kindest, lovingest person I know.
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It’s my birthday, and I’m taking the day off, but I needed to say this to you, so here goes:
Remember the nursery rhyme? “Of sugar and spice, and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of.” Little boys seemed to get the shaft on that one (I mean, who wants to be made of snips and snails and puppy dogs’ tails?).
That popped into my head this morning as I was looking at the incredible kindness and warmth flowing towards me today, my 40th birthday. Actually, the flow started a few days ago, when people started donating to my birthday fundraiser for Kids with Cameras via Facebook’s Causes application.
I’m thrilled to report that thanks to your generosity my goal of raising $800 was long surpassed and, as of this writing, we’re up to $966 that will go a long way in changing the lives of marginalized kids around the world. If you’d like to keep donating, though, don’t stop! Or do consider helping by “joining” the cause, spreading the word, etc. – you know the deal.
I may be beginning my own new decade today, but I’d like to think I’ve still got some sugar and spice left in me. And a large part of that is because of the people around me and I get to know each day. Social media, in particular, has opened up my world in a way I could have never conceived. So has IABC and the wonderful people I keep meeting through professional events.
And when those professional connections grow into relationships, boy, I feel like I’ve hit the jackpot. At last night’s IABC/Washington chapter meeting, for example, as I got up to make the announcements (because I’m chapter president and all), the entire room sang happy birthday to me.
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