Putting My eCards on the Table

I used to get a lot of Happy Birthday wishes in the mail. This year, I got one. But, on Facebook...

Sixty-one! (So far. The day's not over yet.)

On my 21st birthday (this was back during the previous century) my stepmother gave me a rectangle: a crisp fresh-from-the-bank one-hundred dollar bill. Then we went to the Boomtown Casino, because she believed the first thing you should do when you come of age is gamble away all your birthday cash. This is the same woman who had me buying pot for her son for Christmas every year because apparently since I went to Humboldt State (a college David Letterman once called Marijuana State), every other friend of mine should have been dealing, right? My stepmom - she was a giving person.

Times change, but traditions remain and today, on my 4(*cough*)4th birthday, I have received more rectangles.

First my husband gave me this card:

He also gave me this rectangular....thing...:

I wasn't sure what this thing was for, so I had lunch on it. You know, like it's a TV tray with a built-in universal remote - how convenient is THAT?

But I thanked him like it was something I'd been talking about for ages, as if I've been stopping strangers on the street lately and asking them about theirs and if they liked it.

He also gave me something to wear at the upcoming BlogHer09 conference in Chicago:

So right about now, you might be saying, "Hey that's not a rectangle", but you'll notice there's one on the back.

OK, well I gotta go take my Dad out to dinner for his birthday. Oh, did I mention his birthday is today too? We will hit Mimi's Cafe together with the rest of the family and dine on French Rectangle soup.







Some of you guys surprise me, flabbergast me, and humble me with your gifts of generosity and well wishes. Check out these other cool rectangles I got for my birthday!


Mojo of Why? What Have you Heard wrote a WHOLE DANG POST about me and my birthday and gives me entirely too much credit for introducing him to Maggie Dammit, which led him to a whole thing with Violence Unsilenced. Thanks Mojo! I love this Goat poster/card/cake thingie!

Babs of Beetle's Memories and Ramblings  sent me this goaty card on my Facebook Page. Thanks Babs!

And Heather at Nobody But Yourself  gave me this!  Thank you, Heather!

My review of The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson has been published on Curled Up With a Good Book. Amazon says it's available on their Kindle, whatever THAT is.