Happy Pete! Er, my birthday!

[mrissa]

Hey! It's my birthday! I'm 29! Happy my birthday!

the_red_shoes wants me to be happy on my birthday, so she linked to all the Pete Seeger videos on YouTube. Eeeeee. I am listening to them with bouncy glee while I finish my birthday scone. One of them got me all sniffly and excited, because it's Pete and his grandson singing "Well May the World Go," and oh wow oh wow, especially when you hit the choruses, Pete's grandson has his voice and his exuberance. And an obvious love of his grandfather and his grandfather's music. And a band. Whose albums I must now own.

Also, we should all age so well as Pete Seeger, fierce and energetic.

Later I will open presents, take a dip in the hot tub, work on the book because I want to, have a good lunch but I don't know what yet, read something good, have dinner at Rice Paper and ice cream at Sebastian Joe's with two of the people I was with 29 years ago today (plus markgritter). I might bake something. I might not. Depends on what I feel like doing, because it's my birthday.

What are you making today? Stories, lunch, earrings, amends, programs, a living, a better life, connections, a garden, a bit of room to relax?

Comments

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, M'ris!

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Happy your birthday! ::confetti::

[careswen.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning work on a new crochet project -- a tote to haul craft stuff in, so I'll get more crafting done! I achieved this initiative by organizing a weekly crafty lunch bunch at work, which starts today.

Apparently, I'm better at initiating others to initiate me, than I am at initiating myself. Hmm.

Introspect aside, happy birthday!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

A tote to haul craft stuff in. What an enabling sort of a thing to make! I'm amused. I hope it goes well.

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

Happy, happy birthday! May joy sneak up on you in unexpected moments.

[ccfinlay.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, M'ris!

I'm at work, making up for being late because I overslept this morning making a few minutes to read lj while I wake up.

Birthday horoscope!

[zalena.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

http://www.elle.com/birthday/

[skzbrust.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday.

And, yes, I'm all over the whole Pete Seeger thing, but you're still too young to sing "Get up and go."

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, M'ris!

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! What also entertains me is that contents and container will eventually trade places. It feels existential, or something.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, M'ris!

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! :)

[columbina.livejournal.com]

Happy your birthday!

I am making a living. I am also, indirectly, making any number of people a lot happier by fixing things which were, pre-fix, Misery Augmentors, so that's a pretty good way to make a living.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

What's the age cut-off, Pirate?

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

This article (http://www.peteseeger.net/new_yorker041706.htm) is pretty awesome. peteseeger.net (http://www.peteseeger.net/) in generally happy making.

Did you listen to and like "The Seeger Sessions?" by Springsteen?

And, randomly, Seeger and other such luminaries were all friends of my mom's family. Western Mass. commies. :)

[greykev.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!!

today I am making an effort to smile at people. (I'll be at the reference desk for 4 hours) Also making myself dinner of some variety, probably based on chicken. chi-kan go-od!

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

happy birthday! i'm celebrating your birthday by not leaving the house. i'm going to start by making tea, i made a little piece of fiction last night in record time, and i'm going to make all 3 meals, and i'm going to make this place clean.

hope you have a lovely one!

[sksperry.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! *dag-gummed young pups*

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

PS there's a Giant named Pedro Feliz, and when i saw your subject line, well it's 6:30 a.m. and i got a little confused. On that note, go Twins!

Also: 29 is great. i'm almost done with it, but it's been one of the best so far, if not THE best.

[stevenagy.livejournal.com]

Happy B Day. :-)

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Who are you anyway with your excellent musical taste? :)

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

These are really terrific. Time for me to learn "Big Muddy."

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

I'm going to start by making a cup of tea - we'll see what develops after that.

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

Happiest ever birthday to my one and only M'Risiness! (Conveniently for my mother, you are the ONLY value for $mris in my life.... English IS, after all, her second language, and sometimes she's not aware that there ARE $ values for my friends... Just some of their personalities, and not always the good ones.)

Anyhoot, I shall try as ever (with a 1 in 10 success rate so far?) to get and MAIL you a post card from Pennsic, for which I shall be leaving THIS VERY AFTERNOON! (That is, if I survive jamming all my stuff into a car and driving cross country with my Friediness and all my worldly possessions of significant value strapped precariously to the top of the Durango - all while praying like mad that it doesn't rain... too much... before we can get the pavillions set up...) Please god, don't let anything else go wrong. I keep thinking that Murphy has covered everything, but then he keeps coming up with something I hadn't thought of yet...

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

I don't know what I'm making today, but I have Meetings scheduled.