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It's been a good day to turn thirty as days to turn thirty go. When I got home from work today there were packages and cards and my thirtysomething CD had arrived from Amazon Marketplace. This weekend, there were also Recchiuti chocolates and Jon Brion and a beautiful hardcover edition of Taking Care of Terrific that I'd never seen before and River Teeth and Before Sunset and Jazz Fest tickets and yummy candles and Granny Torelli Makes Soup and Keeping the Moon. And there was homemade garlic orange shrimp and coconut basmati rice and chocolate cherry almond biscotti and The Office season two and Thai food with girlfriends and margaritas with five children under three years old and Lebanese food with my family and my mom's special ice cream dessert and cake and ice cream and Girl Scout cookies with my coworkers. There were Lush products and Dirty Girl soap and Anne Taintor bubble bath and e-cards and this mug with a quote that I love and that I try very hard to live every day. And I'm sitting here thinking this might look like just a laundry list of gifts, but it's more than that. It's being lucky enough to have these wonderful people in my life, some of whom I've known since I was in the single digits and some I'm just getting to know. And even though I've been really tired lately and kind of crazy due to sleep deprivation, I'm now taking measures to sleep better and to get back to the gym and I'm taking my vitamins and drinking more water and I am attempting not to have chocolate coursing continuously through my veins, and I think all of that will make me feel young and healthier and more alive. And I keep thinking of Enid in Taking Care of Terrific and how she felt for so long putrid and sordid and fetid and morbid and fetid but how she eventually came to feel splendid. And I have to say that there is no better word for how I feel today. These are my memories.
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