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Good morning!

So, I'm thirty. It feels mostly like 29, but louder.

A while back, the much beloved and missed ter369 turned fifty, and posted her Fifty Things I Have Learned In Fifty Years. I thought it was a genius idea, and how better to ring in thirty than with Thirty Things of my very own?

I'm fond of threes, as it turns out. I know, you're shocked.

Susan Ivanova: Well, who wants to live forever?
Marcus Cole: I do, actually.

( Sam's Thirty Things He's Learned In Thirty Years )

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Okay, kids, I'm running out to Costco, to get mini-bries and croissants and paper plates and copper wire and maybe some ice cream.

BE GOOD WHILE I'M GONE. :D

And enjoy some Birthday Fanart that kath_ballantyne made for me! Smirky Jack and Ianto are <3. :D

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AND THEN THE CAR BROKE DOWN.

Though, being fair, it broke down before I got into it, so GoCar called and told me it was broken. As I was already there, I just walked down to the cemetery and had a nice visit with Christopher, my favourite headstone, and a few other old friends. Good times!

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I got a typewriter and a convertible and a sunflower from LJ for my birthday! Thanks Anons who sent the typewriter and sunflower, and pinkfinity who sent the car.

Heidi also passed on to me the info that laughingirl is doing a massive charity auction to raise money for Avon's Breast Cancer Walk-A-Thon. This is not the first time, and by all accounts the auction is very reputable. Plus, good cause!

The auction is selling tiny teddy bears with tags signed by various celebs, including John Barrowman, GDL, and James Marsters, as well as actors from Pushing Daisies, Fringe, Lost, Heroes, SGA, Firefly, Harry Potter, Flight of the Conchords, BSG, and others.

DIG THE BEARS MAN.

And feel free to repost!

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I didn't mention this earlier because I didn't want to seem paranoid or freak anyone out but MAN. I'm now really glad that I didn't take the car out today.

POINT THE FIRST: I had a very vivid moment this morning where I thought, wow, what if I take the car out today and get T-boned in it, wouldn't that be strange? Tragic but kind of just-my-luck funny, too.

The last time I had a moment like that, it was my last day at work in Oregon, a month after I'd left school. I was prepping to move to St. Nowhere for grad school, and I thought, wouldn't it be funny if something happens to me on the bike ride to work and I never made it to my last day? And half an hour later I was in the emergency room after being hit by a car, an accident which put me off my feet for three weeks solid.

SO YEAH, THERE'S THAT.

POINT THE SECOND: You remember the insane day I had on Friday, where everyone around me was crazy or unfortunate and I was just like, in the eye of the storm? Mum had that today. First my car failed, which she was in on since she pays the membership fee for that, and then Emmy's bike was stolen (which awesome big brother made her get lock insurance? THIS AWESOME BIG BROTHER) so Lucky had to go pick her up, and then the State of Texas called Mum to tell her she was doing Thing X illegally, when she is not and has never done Thing X. ON A SUNDAY. WHAT.

AND THEN

(Oh actually this is kind of satisfying)

Mum got an email from my brother's mother-in-law. She normally doesn't tell me about them, but Bernard had got a job at some temp employment agency or something, I don't know, I don't pay attention when she talks about him. But he's been screwing up left and right and alienating their clients, so he was sacked. And his mother-in-law is "worried" because her daughter is talking about throwing him out because he hasn't got her pregnant yet.

It's not even that I'm enjoying his misfortune, though perhaps a little vengeful part of me is (I try to live by the Thirty Things, but I don't always succeed). It's that Bernard might finally be learning that ditching his family isn't going to make his life perfect, and that no, actually, he isn't the Big Bad Grownup he thought he was yet. And, if he hadn't alienated everyone who loves him, he might not be in a shitheap right now.

So, to sum up: I did not get into a car accident today, and it was a Good Birthday.