I didn’t expect yesterday to be the most amazing birthday ever.

Mr. Price got stuck doing a commercial shoot, for starters, so I was sweetie-less. Plus, I keep waiting for That Birthday to happen. You know the one you’re supposed to have where it feels all milestone-y? I thought it would happen at 18. It didn’t. Then at 21…no dice. 30 seemed like a given, but alas, I just felt another year older.

Mind, I got my dog on my 30th, which was a mighty nice gift that has kept on giving, and I got Mark as a present for my 35th. So, the powers that be have been pretty darn awesome in their gift-giving skills with me on birthdays in the past.

This wasn’t That Birthday, either. (I’m beginning to think the whole notion of milestone birthdays is an utter sham.) But I ended up having a great day at the Olympus with Jane, a nice dinner, the Very Big Present turned out to be a standing mixer (which rocks, since I am a cupcake-making fool of late, and a good mixer means beautiful forsting), and Mark even got home in enough time to give me goodnight-birthday kisses. To boot, Laurie Toby Edison sent me signed books, because she rocks just that hard.

But the surprise gift I was in no way prepared for or expecting was the big box of author copies of my book. In jest, I’d said to my editor months back that if we could arrange the book release date to be on my birthday, that’d be seriously swell. Unbenownst to both of us, while the release date remains in May, the first copies did, in fact, land out and about yesterday, 20 of which landed right on my front porch.

Thanks, universe!


P.S. I didn’t say anything about the Supreme Court decision yesterday because there is just really nothing TO say that is anything but an incomprehensible stream of coarse invective. My brief comment here pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter: this is nothing more than literal torture of women, no matter how you slice it.

filed under Heather Corinna | bookish bits | Happy! | s.e.x.
posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 11:07 am

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