Anniversaires

I originally started writing this in response to how touched I was when I went to a friend's 20th fete d'anniversaire. *** ( please excuse my lack of accents, I don't possess a french keyboard ). I must admit that it is always pleasant to attend a party qui commence avec 60 kissy sounds and 60 cheek touches. At this particular party, there were multiple people who offered flowers to the Mom because she went through a lot on this day as well. How sweet! Anyway, some time has passed and I find that once again I am thinking about this when I just so happen to be bloggin'. What a great time to be writing about birthdays! In baby news on September 5th, 2014 a baby boy was born in the Philippines today named Henry Cylo. In other news, I was born on this day 28 years ago.

Does anyone else find that birthdays stress them out a bit? I love 'em, they're always so beautiful, positive, and full of love. But there's always loads of things to do because it's still a normal workday. I usually find myself smiling through the day while simultaneously juggling thoughts about whether or not I managed to achieve anything worth doing in the past year. Mais Bien sur, I have!! I started writing a blog, saw some truly amazing places, shared amazing moments with my most adored people, received my B1 diploma in Francais, heck I even backed up my computer.

Despite all this I still feel a little bad that I never got nominated to dump the icewater on my head. Of course even though I never felt the cold splash, I still took the time to read WEB MD information on ALS....Meh who wants ice water poured on 'em after this record breakingly cold summer in the  L'Ain region of France. Furthermore, my soul wouldn't allow me to use that much water after the dinner conversation this evening. Apparently the water bill at the house quadrupled after I moved in.  This was eating away at my conscious. How could I have become someone wasteful? I decided that the only nonsubjective way to settle this was to calculate my ecological footprint. This is when I realized that we would need 2.5 planets to support my lifestyle if everybody lived like I do.  Yikes!

If you guys want to do something cool for my birthday, or just something cool in general, go to this site and calculate your own. http://ecologicalfootprint.com/ It's a little silly because it insists that you are either from England or any other part of the world. Neanmois, I seem to find it believable. I would be so thrilled to see what results people got if you are comfortable sharing. Or share a cool album you found recently. I could use some good music recommendations.

I also want to mention the things that were jumping around in the back of my head. Here's what I got for y'all.  I'm running a 5k on SEPTEMBER 6TH in memory of the sweet Ethan, the son of my cousins. http://www.ethansreason.org/5k/5k-registration/ Also, a guy from my high school passed away at the age of 28 from Cancer. He was a truly special person. I even read a touching article about Andrew Cray and his hard work with LGBT.

Anyway, I hope that everyone has a good September 5th. I rather like this day!





***I apologize for my lack of accents used (If anyone wants to know a good birthday present for me, it's the rubber thing that goes over the macbook5,1 with a french alphabet on it). Does writing wink wink still mean anything? I can't figure out how to use the emoticons in blogger. <3