Today is my birthday. As you can tell, I don't shy away from it. I feel like I've lived a long time and yet I still look forward to my birthday every single year. Probably because I don't think of my birthday as getting "older" but rather, as yet another opportunity to get friends together and party. Every year for my birthday, we go to the cottage. This weekend I went with my sister and Mama. I invited my close girlfriends but they said they were all busy and none of them could attend. But that didn't bother me. I didn't even ask why they were so busy. I just typed into my iPhone: "Shift self-birthday party to next weekend. Also - buy lots of wine. Also - call Ricky to see if he is available. Also - shave your legs". Because none of my friends would be able to celebrate my birthday weekend with me, I had just resolved that this weekend would be a nice quiet weekend with Mishi and Mama. Mama was in the middle of one of her i