Tag: birthday

I refuse to get older without the assistance of a sauna

By:  TempestEvents

My birthday is coming up in less than two weeks! If you’re in the NYC area, you’ve probably gotten an email from me (or twelve) listing all my various birthday events. I party hard!

People always ask me: what do you want for your birthday? And usually I say “I dunno” because I pretty much have everything I need in life. But  this year I do have something I want: a 24 hour spa day with massages and scrubs and treatments and the whole thing.

King Spa

Since this costs a bit of money, it’s not something I would ask for from one person. However, if multiple people would like to contribute towards such a thing, I would not object.

To facilitate this, I first set up one of those personal crowdfunding things but the process was arduous and annoying. No one likes that. In the end, PayPal is better, anyway.

So, if you would like to give me a gift for my birthday, you can send it via PayPal to my GMail address: ktempestbradford 

And to everyone who has already done so: you’re awesome, I love you, and I’m sending individual thank yous soon!

Finally: BIRTHDAY UNENDING STARTS RIGHT NOW.

Celebrating My Inevitable March Toward Death’s Door (or: Birthday Plans Afoot)

By:  TempestNews
Celebrating My Inevitable March Toward Death's Door (or: Birthday Plans Afoot)

My birthday is a few weeks away and I intend to beat back the evil specter of oldness by acting completely childish that day. I’ll have dessert before dinner, eat fried foods, then smoke a bunch of hookah. We can all pretend that I don’t do these things on a regular basis.

My actual birthday is the 19th, but as that’s a Monday my party will be on the 17th. Details below:

We’ll start off at The Chocolate Room because they have the best chocolate desserts in the city. Then around 6 we’ll walk over to the Atlantic Chip Shop (129 Atlantic Ave between Clinton St & Henry St in Brooklyn) for Fish & Chips, which reminds me of my salad days. *sigh*
After dessert and dinner, we’re going to head over to the lower east side for hookah at my favorite place: Kazuza. (107 Avenue A between 6th & 7th St)
It’s usually really chill and laid back until around 11 or midnight, so I’d like to get there early. Come along if you like hookah or don’t mind the smoke! We’ll try the Blue Mist.
It’s going to be an awesome night of good food and awesome people, so please join for whatever portion of the evening you can drop by.

We’ll start off at The Chocolate Room (269 Court St, Brooklyn) because they have the best chocolate desserts in the city. Then around 6 we’ll walk over to the Atlantic Chip Shop (129 Atlantic Ave between Clinton St & Henry St in Brooklyn) for Fish & Chips, which reminds me of my days living in that famed borough.

After dessert and dinner (around 8:30), we’re going to head over to the Lower East Side for hookah at my favorite place: Kazuza (107 Avenue A between 6th & 7th St). It’s usually really chill and laid back until around 11 or midnight, so I’d like to get there early. Come along if you like hookah or don’t mind the smoke! We’ll try the Blue Mist.

It’s going to be an awesome night of good food and awesome people, so please join for whatever portion of the evening you can drop by.

If you’re going to join us or think you will, please RSVP so I can make reservations and such the week before. If you’re on Facebook, you can RSVP here for dessert and dinner and here for the hookah portion. Otherwise, you can email be via the contact button on my website and let me know.

April 19

By:  TempestGeekitude

I don’t do memes!  However, this is interesting (to me).  From Wikipedia:

In the Gregorian Calendar, Easter Sunday falls on 19 April more often than on any other date.

Events

1775 – The Battle of Lexington and Concord which began the American Revolutionary War.

1943 – Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.

1961 – The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.

1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.

1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.

2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave. (interestingly, the pope before him became pope the year I was born.)

The trend seems to be: bad things tend to happen on my birthday.  Seriously, for a string of years it was like a sad little game, trying to predict what horrors I would wake up to the day I became a year older.

I share my birthday with the following people

1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress

1965 – Suge Knight, American record producer

1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor (dude, this keeps getting worse…)

1946 – Tim Curry, British actor (okay, that’s better)

Holidays

Easter Sunday 1908, 1981, 1987, 1992.

I spent a lot of birthdays in church wearing a dress I hated.  At least I got brunch, chocolate, and jellybeans later.  But it won’t fall on my birthday again (in the Western tradition) until sometime after 2022.  And the earth will be destroyed by then.