40! is a big birthday.
It’s TWICE the age you are when you’re 20! And when you’re twice the age you are now, you’ll be 80!
80!
You’re halfway to 80!
So I decided that this momentous occasion (not my momentous occasion, mind you — I’m a dewy 36) was worthy of a post on my oft-neglected blog.
But rather than prattle on with gushy life wisdom and textual hugs (as I am wont to do, and have done on his previous birthdays), I decided to list 40 random things: memories that remind me of him, ideas or words that we’ve both laughed at repeatedly, stuff we both enjoy… whatever comes to mind.
Happy birthday, Sean. May the next 40 years of your life bring you more joy, more amazing experiences, more discoveries and more great memories than the 40 you’ve already lived.
I love you!
40 RANDOMS FOR SEAN
Ernie, I can’t go out with this blue hand
Cartoons on Saturday mornings
You, wanting to beat up the girl who spilled McDonald’s orange punch on my dress in the eighth grade
Ambesol Man!
Skating on the rink behind the townhouses on Knottwood Rd.
Your exceptionally crazy pasta creations
Being the “examples” as PKs
Long car trips with Mom’s seat-back treat & toy pockets
Kick the Can on Riverside Drive
Is Jamie REALLY throwing matches at me?
Calling some kid in the Satoo playground an “ijit”, and being chased home
You had a bolo tie!
Catching 15 flights and pneumonia at your wedding (but being happy to be there anyway!)
Listening to tapes as we fell asleep in the upstairs bedroom at Nonna & Poppa’s in Burnaby
Looking for the candy bag in Nonna’s closet
Late-night Christmas tree decorating with old, ridiculous vinyl, laughing too hard to put up ornaments
Swinging in the basement on Tutshi road
You, doing early DJ technique by scratching up the Sesame Street records
Sand castles on Cannon Beach
Duran Duran!
Your growth spurt that made you a foot taller than me
The Edmonton Library iguana
Riding Gypsy, the world’s most patient German shepherd
You and Hunter using me for a bike jump
Drive-in movies in Oregon
Watching Star Wars 2,543,956 times when we first got SuperChannel
Arguments over the front seat
Nonna’s extra-crispy 5 am bacon
Bike trips to the Red Rooster in Edmonton
You, hiding in the bushes to startle trick-or-treaters
Miami Vice fashions… and me, playing the “hostage”
Those aren’t pillows!
The fact that you can eat an entire box of cereal in one sitting — but only the expensive kind
Me, tackling snotty Scotty in the front yard
You have a WHAT kind of gun in your closet?
Sleeping foot-to-head in the backseat during all-night road trips from Whitehorse when we were both short enough to fit
Not being able to open presents until we both ate an orange
Being the oldest grandkids, most of the time
Spending $20 in an hour in the Seaside arcades
You, wanting to drive to Edmonton to kill the people who lived above me
I really have to mention the bolo tie again
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
iTex, writing on iSore’s computer…
Thank you. The blue hand made me laugh hardest.
Happy Birthday Meg’s brother!
I loved reading that, and I didn’t even understand all of the references! But I totally remember that Sesame Street episode with Ernie. And I want for my own kids to have the kind of relationship with each other that you have with your brother. It sounds like I need to take them on more car trips for that to happen…
Dear Meaghan,
I love the picture. Absolutely love it.
I missed you on Sunday…although I did get to wave at you, maybe a bit too often. Actually that was my plan and intentionally did that and you lovingly waved back. Atleast I am going with the notion it was lovingly and not annoyedly. Is that a word? annoyedly? Yes I believe it is.