And I brought them back with a vengeance! They kept getting bigger and bigger and more elaborate, most of them with a theme. There have been an elegant Afternoon Tea; one day with four different catered meals at my house(!,) along with four different groups of pals, (and four completely different outfits!,); one weekday shindig\u00a0that went from 3PM-11PM with no less than five birthday cakes, (to spell out K-A-R-E-N,) where each guest had to choose his or her arrival hour in advance so no time slot would be top-heavy with peeps; one at a Beverly Hills screening room where guests could go back-and-forth between watching my shows in the theatre and dining and dancing in the adjacent party room; several in my old favorite restaurant, Back on Broadway in Santa Monica; a\u00a0Dessert Heaven one in the late, great Butterfly Bakery; a few in the dance clubs around town that I hosted one night a week at; and a couple of Food Fests at the lovely Culver City Hotel, with food from several eateries at once! (Think if anyone I know missed those ones!!!)<\/p>\n One was even a month late because I had gotten sick in January, so that soiree was Valentine-themed!<\/p>\n A few were less successful than the rest, of course, like a gathering\u00a0at my parents’ house in my college days, when all we wanted to do was watch the Golden Globes<\/em>, but most have been a real blast. And I’m totally grateful for all that.<\/p>\n I haven’t had a birthday party in a decade now, (since I’m always too sad to work on a celebration\u00a0for January 14 when Christmas Day, just three weeks earlier, is the anniversary of my mother’s death.) But I had finally begun planning low-key festivities\u00a0for this year. And then, before I could get the ball really rolling, the Omicron variant got rolling itself, and now none of us should be gathering, even the vaccinated.<\/p>\n So 2022 is yet another birthday with most of the pressure on Mr. X to come up with something fun for us to do. But, since I always refer to him as \u201cBetty Boop’s grandfather,\u201d who can even make a carnival in the house on a rainy day, my money’s on him. (Literally\u2014he always puts money in all the birthday cards he gives me, and then I finally caught on that it’s the cash I already had! Hilarious stuff. I mean it.)<\/p>\n Here’s all the info you’ll need:<\/strong><\/p>\n Twitter: @MajorCelebrity<\/strong> So may I now be the first to wish myself a very Happy Birthday! And one to my fellow January 14th Capricorns, as well! Let me know who you are! Let us all have a great day, even in these less-than-stellar times.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! And for the second year in a row, all I can do to celebrate is stay home with Mr. X! Trust me, especially with all the problems in the world, I’m thrilled to have a loved one, especially this guy, to cocoon with. And also grateful to have a house to do<\/p>\n![\"cc0a6bd9a9757d2332bb4a3a60411602\"](\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cc0a6bd9a9757d2332bb4a3a60411602.jpg\")
<\/a>It’s just that I’ve always loved celebrating, well…me<\/em>! I’ve always been known for having big birthday bashes throughout most of my life. In elementary school, I invited my entire class because I never wanted anybody to feel left-out. And I’m one of the very few who even still had parties in middle school<\/em>, when most kids think it’s uncool until one’s Sweet 16. I stopped for ages seventeen through twenty, but went back to having the bday fetes in my twenties.<\/p>\n<\/a>Mr. X and I (and Clarence) even flew back to New York to throw me a birthday party at my mother’s house a few months after 9\/11 for the sole purpose of cheering everyone up! (Which it did, of course. My friends even came from Rhode Island, so it turned into a pajama<\/em> party!) And most of all of those had a separate and smaller next-night get-together\u00a0for the \u201cOpening of the Gifts.\u201d Whew\u2014what a list, right?<\/p>\n<\/a>So, if any of you want to cheer me up today, and give me the easiest and best (outside of a massage or facial or mani-pedi) birthday present ever, why not just follow me on my many platforms? (If you don’t already, of course.) I thank you all in advance.<\/p>\n
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