Before each birthday, my friend Lauren likes to declare a theme for the next year. Every couple of years or so, I’m inspired to come up with one of my own. So, a few weeks ago we had an e-mail conversation that went something like this:
J: Hmm. I think I’m going to declare next year The Year of Sparkle.
L: Ooooh. Sparkle and Fun at 31!!!
J: Ummm. I’m only turning 30. And I never said anything about fun. I just want it to be sparkly.
L: Oh yeah. But the only thing that rhymes with 30 is flirty. And boooo. Why not fun?
J: I’m not saying it won’t be fun. But that isn’t the focus. I need to figure a few things out, so it’s more like an internal kind of sparkly.
L: Ooooh. So you’ll be sort of like a Sparkling Buddha.
J: Yes! Exactly!
L: OK. The Year of the Sparkling Buddha.
And then she sent me this image -
{appears to originally be from here}
It still makes me laugh every time I see it. If that guy was for sale I’d probably buy it. Alternatively (and slightly off-topic), I’m seriously considering buying a giant disco ball to randomly display in our home. If I came across one of those I would definitely buy it. But I haven’t started to seek one out just yet. And, in the meantime, I’ll work on being sparkly the way I intended. And try to finish all of my to-do’s from last year…
How fun that you two come up with a theme for the year!! Even better you incorporated sparkles :)
i love the conversation you had, i can totally imagine it!
Yeah. That was the cliff notes version, but it went just like that!
haha i wondered if you just copied and pasted it… the “oooohs” were exact. and i still laughed when i read you being like “but I’m not 31. i’m 30.” me: “oh yeah.” hahaha cracks me up.
woohoo! i’m a whole blog post essentially!
also this has now convinced me that my life is a disaster and i must now sign up for email alerts for your blog posts instead of just looking and being happily surprised. sigh.
Haha. But it was fun waiting for you to see it. I knew you’d be excited that you were a whole post. :)