27 years lived!

Birthday Post!!


**First and foremost, I want to honor my momma.  Once a year, I get all the glory, cake and presents, when she was the one who did all the work. **

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Yesterday  my "plans" of hanging out under the sun and playing music at the Springs had been rained on, and I had no idea what to expect.  I met with a varied group of friends (from college, Barton Springs, music-making endeavors, and even some brand new friends from Egypt and France joined the party!)

The following questions were asked
1) How were your last 3 birthdays spent?
2009-- Working at Eckerd in NC (watch the video at the very bottom! so sweet!) then meeting with Michelle in Charleston, SC to see the Avett Brothers
2010- Looking for a job on the North Shore of Hawaii
2011- Sleeping on an overnight bus in Thailand.  Being the only American on the bus, and being sung the birthday song in German and Thai.  Then meeting with Michelle (again! on the other side of the world!) in Railay.

After eating an awesome Thai dinner, he asked me "no matter how unrealistic, what is the one dessert you could have now if you could?"

After eating nothing but Thai food for weeks,  I replied  "that's torture! Because there's no way I can have what I really want... but it'd be a hot fudge brownie sundae"

And then walking home from dinner, lo and behold! We come upon a Burger King with a picture of a hot fudge sundae in the window.  Magic. 

2) What is your wildest realistic fantasy?
Sailing (traveling) around the world to random places.  Picking people up who want to join, dropping people off who want to stay.  Showing up and not knowing how to speak the language at all, but making music and dancing with all kinds of people at any given location.  I want to learn how to adapt to all kinds of music. I want to smile with people I've never smiled with before.  Yep.  I'm a grown ass woman and I still just want everybody around the world to hold hands and sing together... I guess I've got 3 more years to have a heart, according to Winston Churchill...

3) Do you have anxiety over getting old?
Sure. My anxiety is best described through a They Might Be Giants song

"Now it's over, I'm dead and I haven't done anything that I want
Or I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do"
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So anyway... I had more thoughts to connect here, but birthdays are exhausting and I just want to post this and sleep.  So here's a snippet of what happened on my birthday.