My New Chimerical Kit

Yesterday was my thirtieth birthday.  It came and went without any inkling of a nervous breakdown.  Despite this fact I’m still throwing myself a “Mid-Mid Life Crisis” party this weekend.  Last year I wrote about my absolute and utter fear of turning 30, and I’d like to have a quick recap about my “before 30 [...]

Happy belated birthday to me!  For those who didn’t know, it was on the 3rd.  And for those who know me well, you’re not surprised that I’m late posting about my birthday.  Actually, it was more like a birthday marathon; it was, after all, the last year of my 20s to celebrate! Birthday Blood Donation [...]

In just under 12 days (it’s more like 11 days and 22 hours and 30 minutes now) I will be turning 29.  And after 8:30 am on May 3rd I’ll have approximately 8, 765.82 hours until I that last glorious year of my twenties ends.  Can I say that I’m just slightly better than panicky [...]

There has been some request to have more information about the “Happy Birthday Jinx.” And since I promised “more later,” here goes: It all began back on May 3, 1990. I turned ten that year (yes, I’ll pause for all those of you who were born pre-1980 to say “Awww” and get it out of [...]

I usually hate my birthday. Usually, things start off fine but then wrenches just pummel my plans. Usually, I’ll have some fantastic birthday thing that I’m going to do and then it just rains on my parade. I was prepared this year. I just knew that May 3rd was going to be just as nasty [...]

Forgotten English Daily Calendar – May 3, 2007 Canvas Opera: (n) A circus. — Maurice Weseen’s A Dictionary of American Slang, 1934 The Battle of Oxford Road English circus purveyor “Lord” George Sanger described this bizarre confrontation in his autobiography, Seventy Years a Showman (1926). On this date in 1833 “about two miles from Reading, [...]

Your Birthdate: May 3 Being born on the 3rd day of the month is likely to add a good bit of vitality to your life. The energy of 3 allows you bounce back rapidly from setbacks, physical or mental. There is a restlessness in your nature, but you seem to be able to portray an [...]