Today is my thirty-second birthday. Unlike many people, I am fully in favor of celebrating my birthday. I love the Happy Birthday song, candles, cakes, and acknowledgments in all forms. I like to put some kind of enlightened spin on it - after almost dying before turning 25, I vowed to never complain about getting older. The truth is that I liked celebrating my birthday and any kind of show of adoration long before then. But a brush with death does put into perspective that life is something that we should all celebrate, for it is never guaranteed to any of us.
It's been a lovely birthday. The celebration for us was really this weekend. On Saturday, Ramy took me to the Jewelry District in Los Angeles to pick out my present. Wikipedia tells me that the Los Angeles Jewelry District it is the largest jewelry district in the United States (compared to the Diamond District in New York and similar) and boasts more than 5,000 jewelry businesses. I'm sure Ramy believes that we might have visited most of those businesses, as I didn't really have a clear idea of what I wanted when we got there. Bless him, he never once complained as we trapised all over. Eventually, I knew that I wanted a pink tourmaline pendant set in white gold, but I had a really hard time finding exactly what I wanted. Ultimately, I had a pendant created for me. I love it. Hopefully I'll have a pick with me wearing it sometime soon. On Saturday night, Ramy and I had the opportunity to go out on a date. We went to see Letters to Juliet at the theater and snuck in our own snacks and drinks. I love a good love story, no matter how predictable. It was also nice to see that it was largely filmed in locations we recognized from our honeymoon. On Sunday, we had a great get-together with our good friends, with good food and a lot of laughter. I'll be posting pics from it soon, I hope.
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