R.I.P. Jesus Year, Hello Dirty Whore
Joelle said before her coffee on November 2, 2007
When I was a kid, 34 seemed so old and mature. I think that’s pretty standard among most kids. My parents had me around this age (mom at 33, dad at 35) and they and their friends always seemed so grown up. I often wonder, “When my mom was my age, did she chronically forget to buy toilet paper or dance around the kitchen to Prince in her bathrobe or laugh hysterically with her best friend at the word ‘tuber’?” Those don’t seem like things a grown-up would do, but here I am, 34 years old and that is my life. As a kid, you thought that your parents and their friends were wise, somehow know something you don’t, they were the grown-ups! Little did we know they were most likely wingin’ it, too.
My goals for this year are simple: just be. I want to be myself and not apologize for it, I want to be happy, I want less stress and more smiling. I want to stop and smell the roses. I want to travel, I want see my friends and the people I love more often. I want to accept that perfection is unnecessary and that my best is good enough. And I want to experience every last breath of awesome available in my life. I want a thrill, I want a wow, I want it all. I want it now! I want a pop! I want a… Shhhhhhasta! See? I can’t be serious.
So, this is 34. Now please excuse me while I spike my coffee with some birthday juice. 
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from Sesame Street, USA
HAPPY BIRFDAY! Light up that boyfriend candle, chick-flick it up, spike the coffee, soap & glory flake-away the yesterdays, and gosh darn it, dance to Chaka Kahn (I want to rock you Chaka Kahn) if you want to. It’s YOUR DAY!!!! SMILE and don’t let anyone put our your FIRE :D xoxo
Happy birthday!!
I’ve often wondered the same sort of things about my parents. Especially when I’m at work and we are all cutting up and having a good time. I wonder if my parents did, or do, the same things? Honestly it’s hard to imagine, but I guess possible.
Hope you have a happy birthday.
from Norfolk, VA
Happy Birthday. My 34th was last Thursday—I’m right there with ya, sister.
Just be. I’m down with that.
happy birthday, dude, from the 34 y.o. brigade.
from West Palm Beach, FL • Cocktail: Champagne Bellini
Happy Birthday! I love you. Asshole. Now excuse me while I eat chocolate for breakfast and spike my coffee in honor of your birthday.
*spikes*
from Escanaba, MI • Cocktail: Fabulous-Tini
Happy Birthday! Have a great one!
from SD CA (this week) • Cocktail: Red Headed Slut
Happy birthday! Bday drinks soon.
Cocktail: Cabernet Sauvignon -- gallons of it.
Happy B-Day!
What’s up with “tubers”?
Happy Birthday from a fellow 34-year-old!
Hope your day is fab!
from Michigan
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday dear Joelle!
Happy Birthday to you!
I love birthdays! Do something fun and celebrate!
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
Thanks everybody!
from Alexandria VA
Happy birthday!
I have those thoughts all the time...’When my mom was this age...’ It amazes me how much I expected of my parents for how young they were.
from Santa Barbara, CA
Happy Birthday to a fellow November birthday girl.
I agree with you though--I’m the age my mom was when she had me, and I don’t feel as old and wise and serious as it seemed like she and all other parents were. They totally must’ve been winging it and inwardly laughing while telling us things with a serious face.
Haaaaappy Birthday sista!
I wonder if I can use that “birthday juice” thing here at work.
Boss: Faith, what’s that I saw you just put into your Diet Coke?
Me: Oh, it’s birthday juice. Want some?
Boss: Birthday juice?
Me: Yeah, it’s special. Here...have some in your coffee. I hear it goes really well with that…
Boss: Sweet!
(I have a pretty cool boss, though, so yeah. That could actually happen in our case.)
from 7th Circle of Hell
Birthday Juice? I like it.
You mean to tell me you don’t live this fabulous life with no stressors and nothing but fuzzy kitties and butterflies?
Really, because I SWEAR that’s what it looks like from here. *wink*
Happy Birthday. I remember 34. It was a very good year. Heh.
(Not that I’m OLD or anything. Just sometimes, I feel it. But I still dance around my living room.)
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
@Faith: Thanks, lady!
*juices*
@Margi: haha! Well, it’s fabulous… just not stress-free.
Thanks for the birthday wishes!
from Virginia Beach, VA • Cocktail: Calypso Cooler
Happy Aniversary of the day you escaped the vagina! :wink:
from Carmel Valley
Hi and Happy Birthday! I found you in the San Diego bloggers group at the NaBloPoMo site (yes, my mind goes all over the place with that word too - I think Kokomo is the most ‘g’ rated - ahem). I love the Shasta! reference. FWIW, my mid 30-s was when my life really kicked into gear and I’ve felt totally connected and having fun since then. So, enjoy 34! And I look forward to reading more this month
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
@Christina: Thanks so much for the welcome and the birthday wishes.
good luck with NaBloPoMo!
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
@soapbox: haha! Thanks, misty.
from SW Indiana
Happy Birthday! Here’s to living your life as you wish. Lifting a Bombay Sapphire rocks to you. Happy Day.
Elvis sends his regards.
Cocktail: Mudslide
Cheers to this b-day and many more of ‘em!!!
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
Thanks so much, all!
Happiest of Birthday wishes to you! I’ll be 31 next Saturday and was recently thinking that I am so not a grown-up yet. S’ok though, I don’t wanna grow up anyway.
from hell
Happy b-day. Word of advice from this soon to be 36 year old....if you can make one person a day smile, then you’ve done your job.
Phrases like “champagne high colonic” do it everytime.
And I so get the ‘just be’. It’s tough.
Cocktail: Fuzzy Navel (I am such a pansy)
Happy Happy Birthday!
And now I wanna Sssshhhassta too.
My parents were 22 when they had me, I am two years older than that. I can’t really imagine having a 2 year old running around my legs. My parents were much stronger than I. Ha.
from Houston, Texas
Happy happy birthday! I hope you had a great one!
1973 RULES!! Happy Birthday, Joelle! This is gonna be your year, I think!
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
Thank you so much everyone!
Oh shit. I’m late, like always.
Happy birthday, Joelle. I love you.
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
@Y: Thanks, lady. I love you, too. *smoosh*
from Okla-effing-homa
OMFG happy (belated) birthday! :D This PRF <3s you and misses you!
from Chicago
I get to be the 34th person to wish you a happy 34th! I know I’m a day late, but I’m a few dollars short now-I was busy at Borders buying a book. Can you guess which one? :D
Happy anniversary of the day you first sucked air.
from Virginia
Happy (slightly belated) Birthday Joelle!!
Don’t ever grow up, it’s highly over-rated.
(I’m the 35th person to wish you a Happy 34th Birthday, which means I’m the comment to grow on.
)
from big city, usa
Happy birthday! I need this outlook...I print this post and put it on my fridge…
it’s your birthday, it’s your birthday… or at least it was. i’m late. but happy belated!! i just turned 34 a couple weeks ago and all i keep thinking is “how in the heck did i get HERE?” ha!
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
Thank you so much everyone!
I had a great birthday. Thank you for thinking of me.