Happy Birthday! - Page 23

wolf · 04-09-2006, 04:05 PM

Happy Birthday, Glatt!

skysidhe · 04-10-2006, 08:08 AM

Happy Birthday!!

Now where's the cake? :P

xoxoxoBruce · 04-13-2006, 09:28 PM

Happy FallenFairy to Birthday....say, that's great rum cake.

FallenFairy · 04-14-2006, 05:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Happy FallenFairy to Birthday....say, that's great rum cake.

Mmmmm (hic) it was good wasn't it!

Thanks Bruce!!

Trilby · 04-18-2006, 04:47 PM

happy birthday, fargon! ya nutcake!

Have a

dinner on wolf! (don't worry, she'll pay!)

xoxoxoBruce · 04-18-2006, 05:04 PM

Fargon's another year older? Congratulations......hope your birthday comes up like a cucumber salad.......again and again and again and......

xoxoxoBruce · 04-19-2006, 11:29 PM

Does anyone want to wish Adolf Hitler a happy birthday?

glatt · 04-20-2006, 07:43 AM

Can you imagine being born with the last name of Hitler? You would change it, right? Are there any Hitlers left?

Undertoad · 04-20-2006, 07:59 AM

Happy Birthday Columbine

Happy 420 day, stoners!

skysidhe · 04-20-2006, 08:29 AM

Happy Happy

what is 420 day? Congradulations if that's what I think it is.

wolf · 04-20-2006, 01:37 PM

Happy birthday, dear fuehrer, happy birthday, to you!

Every single year, but you all knew that, right?

Elspode · 04-21-2006, 01:06 PM

Oh, good...the thread has skewed to birthday stuff not related to Cellar Dwellars. It is the perfect time to share this, then.

Today is my son's 25th birthday. How strange it is to think that he is now the age I was when he was born. Stranger still is his difficult life, and how he reacts to it. I often get emails from him lamenting his lot, but today, being his birthday, perhaps I felt the need to respond with a bit more empathy, with something that might communicate my admiration and love for him. What follows is his email, and then my reply.

----------------------------------------------------------
From Stephen: "You know what dad, I'm 25 years old but my brain sometimes still feels like I'm still 21 or 18 years old.....why? I know what to do at home, bills, food, cleaning up shit around here, always remembering to give clifton his gas money and other things that I have to do or things you and mom needs me to do if you ask. But I still feel like I'm 18 or 21 Y.O., why?

Maybe I'm being scared of being older or something like that, I don't know father, I don't know."
-----------------------------------------------------------

"Happy Birthday, son. We all feel a bit reflective and odd when we gain another year, and it is perfectly natural to reflect on where we are at on those days. Try and remember that you are lucky to be alive and living a mostly normal life at all, Steve. We were so close to losing you, so close to having you be an invalid for the rest of your life. You are a miraculous human being who, despite his difficulties, is proof that there is magick and mercy in the Universe. You are a living miracle.

Steve, you are always going to have to work harder than a so-called normal person in order to just get along day to day. Your troubles are going to be many, and your triumphs probably few. You will probably never be wealthy, but you will always be rich...rich in people who love and care about you, and rich with life and a future that will unfold as it should.

It is alright to reflect upon yourself, but don't get down on yourself; don't compare yourself to others. You have little in common with people who haven't endured what you have endured. You cannot judge your life by anyone else's standards. You can only strive each day to do the best that you can. If you know inside yourself that you have given all you have to give each day, you will be rewarded in ways that you may not even understand.

We all love you son, and we are all proud of you. You are an extraordinary person, and you needn't feel badly about yourself in any way."

Elspode · 04-21-2006, 01:06 PM

Oh, good...the thread has skewed to birthday stuff not related to Cellar Dwellars. It is the perfect time to share this, then.

Today is my son's 25th birthday. How strange it is to think that he is now the age I was when he was born. Stranger still is his difficult life, and how he reacts to it. I often get emails from him lamenting his lot, but today, being his birthday, perhaps I felt the need to respond with a bit more empathy, with something that might communicate my admiration and love for him. What follows is his email, and then my reply.

----------------------------------------------------------
From Stephen: "You know what dad, I'm 25 years old but my brain sometimes still feels like I'm still 21 or 18 years old.....why? I know what to do at home, bills, food, cleaning up shit around here, always remembering to give clifton his gas money and other things that I have to do or things you and mom needs me to do if you ask. But I still feel like I'm 18 or 21 Y.O., why?

Maybe I'm being scared of being older or something like that, I don't know father, I don't know."
-----------------------------------------------------------

"Happy Birthday, son. We all feel a bit reflective and odd when we gain another year, and it is perfectly natural to reflect on where we are at on those days. Try and remember that you are lucky to be alive and living a mostly normal life at all, Steve. We were so close to losing you, so close to having you be an invalid for the rest of your life. You are a miraculous human being who, despite his difficulties, is proof that there is magick and mercy in the Universe. You are a living miracle.

Steve, you are always going to have to work harder than a so-called normal person in order to just get along day to day. Your troubles are going to be many, and your triumphs probably few. You will probably never be wealthy, but you will always be rich...rich in people who love and care about you, and rich with life and a future that will unfold as it should.

It is alright to reflect upon yourself, but don't get down on yourself; don't compare yourself to others. You have little in common with people who haven't endured what you have endured. You cannot judge your life by anyone else's standards. You can only strive each day to do the best that you can. If you know inside yourself that you have given all you have to give each day, you will be rewarded in ways that you may not even understand.

We all love you son, and we are all proud of you. You are an extraordinary person, and you needn't feel badly about yourself in any way."

Guest · 04-21-2006, 05:55 PM

In memory of a thread that seems to have been created for a 'haiku master' I'd never before heard of:

A Double Posting
Falling threads, like verdegris
Leave trails where they lived.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-21-2006, 10:36 PM

Elspode, very nice.

I wonder if he's saying, it's my birthday but I don't feel any different than before?
I find when my birthday comes around, if nothing major has changed, for better or worse, in the last year, then big deal. It doesn't seem to matter if it's not marking some movement, other than time.

04-09-2006, 04:05 PM	#1
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Happy Birthday, Glatt! __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

04-13-2006, 09:28 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Happy FallenFairy to Birthday....say, that's great rum cake. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-18-2006, 05:04 PM	#6
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Fargon's another year older? Congratulations......hope your birthday comes up like a cucumber salad.......again and again and again and...... __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-19-2006, 11:29 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Does anyone want to wish Adolf Hitler a happy birthday? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-20-2006, 01:37 PM	#11
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Happy birthday, dear fuehrer, happy birthday, to you! Every single year, but you all knew that, right? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

04-10-2006, 08:08 AM	#2
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	Happy Birthday!! Now where's the cake? :P

04-18-2006, 04:47 PM	#5
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	happy birthday, fargon! ya nutcake! Have a dinner on wolf! (don't worry, she'll pay!)

04-20-2006, 07:43 AM	#8
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Can you imagine being born with the last name of Hitler? You would change it, right? Are there any Hitlers left?

04-20-2006, 07:59 AM	#9
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Happy Birthday Columbine Happy 420 day, stoners!

04-20-2006, 08:29 AM	#10
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	Happy Happy what is 420 day? Congradulations if that's what I think it is.

04-21-2006, 01:06 PM	#12
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Oh, good...the thread has skewed to birthday stuff not related to Cellar Dwellars. It is the perfect time to share this, then. Today is my son's 25th birthday. How strange it is to think that he is now the age I was when he was born. Stranger still is his difficult life, and how he reacts to it. I often get emails from him lamenting his lot, but today, being his birthday, perhaps I felt the need to respond with a bit more empathy, with something that might communicate my admiration and love for him. What follows is his email, and then my reply. ---------------------------------------------------------- From Stephen: "You know what dad, I'm 25 years old but my brain sometimes still feels like I'm still 21 or 18 years old.....why? I know what to do at home, bills, food, cleaning up shit around here, always remembering to give clifton his gas money and other things that I have to do or things you and mom needs me to do if you ask. But I still feel like I'm 18 or 21 Y.O., why? Maybe I'm being scared of being older or something like that, I don't know father, I don't know." ----------------------------------------------------------- "Happy Birthday, son. We all feel a bit reflective and odd when we gain another year, and it is perfectly natural to reflect on where we are at on those days. Try and remember that you are lucky to be alive and living a mostly normal life at all, Steve. We were so close to losing you, so close to having you be an invalid for the rest of your life. You are a miraculous human being who, despite his difficulties, is proof that there is magick and mercy in the Universe. You are a living miracle. Steve, you are always going to have to work harder than a so-called normal person in order to just get along day to day. Your troubles are going to be many, and your triumphs probably few. You will probably never be wealthy, but you will always be rich...rich in people who love and care about you, and rich with life and a future that will unfold as it should. It is alright to reflect upon yourself, but don't get down on yourself; don't compare yourself to others. You have little in common with people who haven't endured what you have endured. You cannot judge your life by anyone else's standards. You can only strive each day to do the best that you can. If you know inside yourself that you have given all you have to give each day, you will be rewarded in ways that you may not even understand. We all love you son, and we are all proud of you. You are an extraordinary person, and you needn't feel badly about yourself in any way." __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

04-21-2006, 05:55 PM	#14
Guest Banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: In the Guest Room Posts: 11	In memory of a thread that seems to have been created for a 'haiku master' I'd never before heard of: A Double Posting Falling threads, like verdegris Leave trails where they lived.

04-21-2006, 10:36 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Elspode, very nice. I wonder if he's saying, it's my birthday but I don't feel any different than before? I find when my birthday comes around, if nothing major has changed, for better or worse, in the last year, then big deal. It doesn't seem to matter if it's not marking some movement, other than time. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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