Sunday, June 10, 2012

Another Birthday. Another Decade.

'In the Restaurant' 1907 by Charles Hoffbauer
Just a brief glimpse of how I'm spending my birthday today. Same/old. Same/old. Glamour, glamour, glamour...it does get boring after awhile. But I'm bearing up. Ha!

30 comments:

  1. Happy birthday, my dear. Very dashing gent in that painting. And you look lovely. Just make sure you leave with the one that brung ya'.

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  2. May I wish you a very happy Birthday, Yvette. I trust you will spend time doing things that give you pleasure and that you are surrounded by friends and family!
    :-)

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  3. Happy Birthday Dearest Darling (said in the vein of Temeraire to Laurence). All the best to you on this very glorious day of sunshine and happy breezes. Belle

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  4. I wish you a very happy birthday, and I hope you can extend it into a season of celebration. Wishing you health and happiness, Mark

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  5. Jacqueline, did you see the enlarged version? Is this not a fabulous painting? I mean - WOW! Yes, I must take care to leave with the guy with the cigar. He looks prosperous. Ha!

    Don't you just LOVE my dress?

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  6. Thank you, Sue, m'dear. I'm going out to dinner tonight (just like in the painting - ha!) with family. I'm looking forward to it. This is a BIG birthday. Beginning of a new decade.

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  7. Oh, thank you, Belle, dear. So far I'm having a great day and it promises to get even better later on when I go out to dinner. I looked in the closet but that dress appears to have disappeared...oh well, I'll just have to wear something less flamboyant tonight. :)

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  8. Thank you, Mark. I hope so as well. :) Can't believe I made it this far.

    Having done so, the rest should be duck soup.

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  9. Happy Birthday, Yvette! God bless you with health and happiness always. I hope you have a great year ahead!!

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  10. Hey, Yvette, although I've already expressed my bountiful birthday blessings to you, good news is worth repeating, kinda like in that CITIZEN KANE trailer: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YVETTE! All of us here at Team Bartilucci H.Q. hope you have a wonderful day with all the people and things you love, my friend!

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  11. Happy, happy birthday to you Yvette! Have a wonderful day!

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  12. Happy birthday, Yvette. Wishing you many great books (and movies) and plenty of leisure time in which to enjoy them!

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  13. Wow! Happy Birthday, Yvette!


    I send my best wishes for health and happiness, good books, art, music and movies for the coming years.

    And thank you so much for this wonderful gift of a blog which you bring to your readership and which we appreciate.

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  14. Happy Birthday Yvette

    Here's to many more fun-filled B'Days.

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  15. Happy Birthday, Yvette! Wishing you many, many more.

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  16. Happy Birthday...Enjoy!!!

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  17. A very, very Happy Birthday to you! And a wonderful year until next one!

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  18. Thanks so much everyone!! I had a wonderful birthday - an amazing dinner out with family (including my little granddaughter) and very nice prezzies: some turquoise bling and a shopping bag full of deliciousness - all the necessaries for afternoon tea!

    And yes I had cake. You're never too old for cake!

    It was a BIG birthday - I'm beginning a new decade and feeling pretty good. I'm glad I'm still around.

    You guys are terrific! Thanks again for all the good wishes, they are very much appreciated. :)

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  19. I know I said Happy Birthday on FB yesterday but I wanted to come by and say the same thing here. I hope you had a wonderful birthday!

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  20. Thanks, Ryan! I must admit, my flashy silver sequinned grown did fit a little tighter by the end of the evening. And the red rose was drooping a bit. But, I soldiered on. HA!

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  21. Glamour hardly covers it. You could give Lily Rowan a run for her money!

    Happy Happy Birthday.

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  22. Don't I wish! Ha! Thanks, C.W.

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  23. So glad you have a wonderful birthday and that your grand-daughter brought joy.

    More turquoise bling is a great present, and delicious things for tea.

    Great gifts -- and birthday cake, too.

    It sounds as if a terrific time was had by all, especially the birthday honoree.

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  24. We did, Kathy. We did. It was a very fun day. :)

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  25. Beautiful, beautiful painting, and what a smashing dress, dahling.

    I hope your birthday was absolutely fantastic. :)

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  26. It was. :) The gown? Oh, just a little something I threw on at the last minute. Ha.

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  27. I hope you had a wonderful birthday, Yvette! Did you wear your sliver ball gown like the elegant woman in thsi painting?

    I celebrated mine yesterday...doing much of the same as every day, but that's ok--the "ordinary days" are the best and not to be taken for granted. :)

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  28. A belated Happy Birthday to you (because I have been knee deep in grading papers these few weeks). Hope you had a great time on your birthday.

    Great picture!

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  29. Pat: But of course I wore my silver full length gown. Ha! Isn't that an amazing painting? We should all be that woman at least once in our lives. :)

    At any rate, thanks. I had a great day. I hope you did too. Geminis of the world UNITE!!

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  30. Thanks, Willow. I had a great day indeed.

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