Jan
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The one where I had no TV or Internet all weekend.
Filed Under (Health) by table4five on 29-01-2007

***Don’t forget, tomorrow is my FORTIETH birthday! Please stop by and leave me a Happy Birthday comment, the post will stay up until I get at least FORTY comments. If you want to toast me with a glass or shot of something, just please make sure your kids are not around lest Meredith Viera jump out from behind your sofa with a Today show camera crew and ask you if you really NEED that alcohol. I’ll probably start drinking around 8:00 p.m., while commenting on the American Idol Open Message Thread over at Mamapop!. Because that show is SO much better when it’s a drinking game too.***

So, in other news, I wanted to reply to everyone who commented on my post about the Today show, but on Friday night we lost our cable. No cable signal, no Comcast “High Speed” Internet access. For the WHOLE. WEEKEND. We had to do stuff like watch DVDs, read books, swim at the Y. And while it is, in fact, possible to live without TV and computers, I have to admit I was about to go out of my mind when the Comcast guy showed up this afternoon. Turns out, a weird vine-thing growing on our neighbor’s tree had wrapped around the cable and pulled it right out of the connection.

Also helping me not commit cablecide was the fact that for my birthday, my Dad and Stepmother bought me a one-hour massage at a day spa, and since my Stepsister was the masseuse, she kicked in another thirty minutes. So I got a NINETY MINUTE massage today. It was heaven. Then we went to lunch and I ate a Belgian waffle with strawberries and whipped cream (what? it’s my birthday).

As much as I would love to sit here on the computer for the rest of the night, I have to take Nathan to Cub Scouts which means I’d better make some dinner or something. Hope to see you all back here tomorrow, I’ll put the Birthday post up first thing in the morning, then show me the love with those comments!!

   
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jess (10 comments.) on 29 January, 2007 at 9:10 pm #

Reading books? No cable television/Internet? Oh NOES!

Seriously, my condolences. I will be back tomorrow for the birthday comment.


meno (32 comments.) on 29 January, 2007 at 10:40 pm #

Happy happy birthday. A ninty minute massage? That is heaven.


roo (21 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 12:54 am #

Happy Birthday! And many, many more!


Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah (6 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 8:03 am #

Happy birthday!

I’ll do a shot for you later (right now it’s 8:00 am).


Sarah and the Goon Squad » Randomness Part 63 on 30 January, 2007 at 8:27 am #

[...] It is Elizabeth’s 40th birthday today. She is trying to get 40 comments for her fortieth. Go tell her happy birthday.  [...]


Suebob (84 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 9:05 am #

Ok, here we go - en espanol, no less:

Estas son las mañanitas, que cantaba el Rey David. Hoy por ser día de tu santo, te las cantamos a ti.

Despierta mi bien despierta, mira que ya amaneció. Ya los pajaritos cantan. La luna ya se metió

Que linda está la mañana en que vengo a saludarte. Venimos todos con gusto y placer a felicitarte.

Ya viene amaneciendo. Ya la luz del día nos dio. Levántate de mañana. Mira que ya amaneció.

Feliz cumpleanos, Elizabeth!


inthefastlane (28 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 9:23 am #

Happy Birthday! Have one for me too! And I wonder what Meridith would say about this “B is for Beer” baby shirt and my post about it…
http://thatslifev2.blogspot.com/2007/01/b-is-for-what-i-came-across-this-baby-t.html

Meridith probably just has her nanny watch the kids when she wants a drink anyway.


Kelly (1 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 11:34 am #

Happy belated b-day! Hope it was a good one!


CPA Mom (7 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 12:02 pm #

No Tv or internet. I would have jumped out a window. Seriously. Or read a book I guess.


Anne Glamore (1 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 1:06 pm #

Happy birthday! I’m turning 40 next month and am feeling a little… not immortal.


squawks (1 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 2:00 pm #

happy birthday! i turned 40 exactly 3 months ago (to the day! go 30ths!) and i’m here to tell you, it’s not so bad. have a great year.


Tammy (1 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 4:45 pm #

Happy Birthday! I will have some kind of drink for you later!


Hygiene Dad (1 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 4:49 pm #

Hey Happy Birthday. My 40th is tomorrrow.


margalit (1 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 5:05 pm #

Happy 40th Birthday!


raine (1 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 5:09 pm #

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WOMAN!


Stacie (1 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 5:45 pm #

Happy Birthday!


Lance (1 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 6:20 pm #

Happy Birthday to another Aquarian!


niCk(MemBeth) (1 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 8:15 pm #

YEA! I’m an Aquarian, too. Happy Birthday.


michelletwinmum (1 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 9:02 pm #

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
(sorry if I’m late but just saw the thing on sarah and the goon squads blog sending bloggers your way!!)

Hope you had a great birthday!!


Anita (1 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 10:03 pm #

I was lurking about on Sarah and the Goon Squads page… and saw it was your birthday…….

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!
HAPYY BIRTHDAY TO ELIZABETH!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!

TAKE CARE AND ENJOY YOUR DAY!

ANITA


Devra (10 comments.) on 30 January, 2007 at 10:54 pm #

You’ll live a hundred years.
You’ll drink a thousand beers.
Get plastered, you bastard
Happy Birthday to you!

And if you go to BlogHer 07 I’ll give you one of my drink tickets to celebrate this momentous occasion!

XXOO


richard's blog (1 comments.) on 5 February, 2007 at 5:44 pm #

a weekend without the internet? I remember those days.

Don’t know how i’d cope now. :)

Anyway happy birthday! Life begins at 40 and all that.


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