{"id":3590,"date":"2009-01-06T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T21:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2009-01-06T18:54:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T01:54:02","slug":"counting-birthdays-in-hex-is-totally-the-way-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/06\/counting-birthdays-in-hex-is-totally-the-way-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting birthdays in hex is totally the way to go."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m 21 today!!\u00c2\u00a0 (In hex.)\u00c2\u00a0 Good thing, too, because I recently heard this exchange among my Schweitzer group:<\/p>\n

“What did he look like?”<\/p>\n

“Oh, you know… tall, brown hair, middle age… like, in his late 20s\/early 30s.”<\/p>\n

Phew!\u00c2\u00a0 Good to know hex puts me squarely in the early age category!\u00c2\u00a0 Although I am young and so thrilled to finally be able to buy booze, I am going for a low-key celebration.\u00c2\u00a0 So for all you peeps ready to take me out drinking on the town, here are some things I won’t be doing today, on my birthday:<\/p>\n

— I will not be putting gifts in my children’s shoes in celebration of Epiphany (although the cat may leave one in mine.)<\/p>\n

— I will not see the parade in the French Quarter to kick off the start of Carnival Season.<\/p>\n

— I will not be taken out to a Fancy Dinner (although I may serve a mediocre one to my family.\u00c2\u00a0 Readers are encouraged to send easy recipes to this culinary-challenged woman, with the understanding that I can barely boil water.)<\/p>\n

— I will not be rudely awoken from an afternoon nap.<\/p>\n

— I will not be lavished seduced with presents (although I will probably be given a hidden gift from my mother-in-law and sung to by my parents).<\/p>\n

— Our household will not relocate to Disney-developed Celebration, Florida, even though Casa Latino<\/a>, one of the country’s largest Hispanic and minority owned real estate offices, is moving there from New England (how strange is that?!)<\/p>\n

— I will not be bothered if I decide to eat frozen cookie dough in lieu of not having Fancy Dinner.<\/p>\n

— It will not be judged careless if I decide to catch up on random websites and enjoy things like these portraits<\/a>, these lights<\/a>, these light cords<\/a>, these knitted curiosities<\/a>, and these paper illustrations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

— No one will bother me if I want to play Momma-razzi all night with my camera.\u00c2\u00a0 Smile, kids!<\/p>\n

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Thank you for all the birthday well-wishes!<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

UPDATE: A big whoops for forgetting the hat tip to laloca<\/a>, for pointing out the knitting curiosities.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d say that they made my day, but considering how many people I’ve shown them to and how it’s still up in my browser, I think making my week is much more appropriate.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess I’m in a bit of a twisted funk??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m 21 today!!\u00c2\u00a0 (In hex.)\u00c2\u00a0 Good thing, too, because I recently heard this exchange among my Schweitzer group: “What did he look like?” “Oh, you know… tall, brown hair, middle age… like, in his late 20s\/early 30s.” Phew!\u00c2\u00a0 Good to know hex puts me squarely in the early age category!\u00c2\u00a0 Although I am young and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,67,109],"tags":[137,84,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}