Today is my birthday: every year I dread it for no particular reason apart from the fact I’m getting older. I can be found muttering darkly weeks before the actual event, from January onward actually.
Well, the day has arrived and it would be churlish to carry on with the pathetic self-pity when I woke up to cards, gifts, texts and so on from so many people.
I am very, very lucky to have many amazing people in my life, I have no right to complain about anything at all.
So, in that spirit, I will be sipping on French champagne by the time you guys read this.
I will be celebrating, not moaning about the inevitable because, older or not: life is really, really good right now—I am blessed in so many ways and it is not something I should ever forget.
Ps: I am aware I have probably already used up my quota of selfies for the entire year but…I don’t really care 😜
Happy birthday!!!! I am glad everything is going great for you and that the booze is being cracked open in earnest, Keep the selfies coming too, you do seem to have a bit of a fan club for them!
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Thank you!!!! It is nice to have an excuse for the booze to be cracked in earnest for once 😉
Hmm, yes, it seems that I do lol
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Happy Birthday my blogging friend. Have a great day of celebrating being alive and well.
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Thank you very much 🙂
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Happy Birthday Lovely Ladye. 💜 my world is a better place since we met.
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Thank you, Eric! And…ditto!! 😊💜
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♪ღ♪░ HAPPY 🌟🎂 🌟 BIRTHDAY░♪ღ♪
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Bon anniversaire, Beautiful Nathalie! You are smokin’ and fierce, Gorgeous! May your day and night be stupendous! Big Hugs and LOVE U!! 🌼 💛❤️
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Aww, thank you so much, gorgeous!
You are always so sweet to me, it makes me feel all warm inside 😊
Big hugs to you as well and love you too! 💜💜
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You are most welcome, Beauty! I hope your day was glorious! 💛 💚 💙 💜
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Happy Birthday! Enjoy every minute. You look fab btw. 😊
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Aw, thank you! And it’s very sweet of you to say so 🙂
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Happy birthday Natalie
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Thank you, Sheldon! 😀
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Happy birthday! Getting older is awesome. Don’t let anyone tell you different, there really are some amazing surprises along the way. One of my favorites was suddenly caring very little for what others think of me. Very funny, but that was a burden I didn’t even know I was carrying up into my 30’s. Than suddenly…freedom.
Have a good birthday! I like to spend a whole month celebrating mine. Pace yourself. Some things can’t be done in a day. 🙂
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Oh yes, I am much more comfortable in my skin now than I was in my 20’s. Quite frankly, I was a mess of insecurities then, ugh!
I like the idea of celebrating for a month, why didn’t I think of that? I usually do it over a week…clearly I’ve been doing it all wrong 😀
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Many happy returns, Nathalie! Enjoy your day. 🙂
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Thank you, Richard! 🙂
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Happy birthday! 🎈
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Thank you, Amanda! 🙂
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Happy Birthday Nathalie! You look BEAUTIFUL!🤗🎂🍾💐❤️
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Thank you very much! 😀
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Here’s a bright side, babe… you will always be younger than me! 😜 Love ya! 🎂🍾🥂🌷❤️
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Since you’re a mere spring chicken, Meg, you and I really have nothing to worry about! 😜😂
Thank you! Love ya too 😘💜
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Aw! Well, I’m a chicken in my head at least! 😀
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😂
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Happy birthday. Another year of wisdom, joy and friendship added to your tab ❤
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Thank you, what a lovely way to look at it 🙂
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Happy birthday my friend.
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Thank you so much, awesome one!
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Happy Birthday. Pisces are special people. Have a great day! ❤
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Thank you, Christoph! Pisces are creative, dreamers, idealists, passionate and (most definitely) very emotional…yeah, I guess we are special 😜
Thanks again 💜
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Bon anniversaire Nathalie!! I hope your special day is amazing!! – Lola 🙂
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Thank you, Lola! I had a great day, I’m very lucky 😀
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Happy Birthday, Nathalie! I hope that you have a wonderful day of celebration. ❤
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Thank you, Rob! It was a wonderful day indeed 😀
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Bon Anniversaire, Nathalie! I hope you have an amazing day!
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Thank you so much 😀
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Happy Birthday. Enjoy your champagne and have a wonderful day!
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Thank you, Diana! Rest assured the champagne was enjoyed 😉
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Happy Birthday my friend, my best wishes for you. 🙂
Lovely picture ❤
Soul..
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Thank you so much, my friend!
You are so sweet! 😘💜
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❤
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Happy birthday, Natalie!
We hope you are spending it doing all the things you like best!
☺️ 🍰🍷🍾
Ash and Alder
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Thank you! I had a wonderful day, thanks for dropping by with birthday wishes 🙂
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Happy birthday lovely! I have a love hate relationship with birthdays. I hope your day is fabulous and the champagne free flowing. X
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Thank you! Same as me then…I dread it ages in advance but I always end up having a good time…like yesterday (helped by free flowing champagne 😉) x
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Happy Birthday and may this day and all the days that follow be filled with joy.
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Thank you very much 🙂
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Happy birthday, fellow Piscean. xo
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Thank you! #PiscesRule 😜
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Happy birthday Nathalie! My dearest and best’est French friend 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Thank you, and yay! “Dearest and bestest Frenxh friend” is a title I embrace happily 😀
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😀 XX ❤
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Happy Birthday (again), my lovely. I hope you have had the best day. I hope you laughed a lot and danced and partied. You deserve to have a wonderful time. 😘❤🎂✨🥂
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Thank you, Vic! (Again) A wonderful time was had by little old me, and why am I telling you since you already know this 😂
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Lol. I don’t know. You just love to talk to me. 😛😘
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Someone is getting big-headed 😜
(But yeah, I kinda do😁)
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😛
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Happy birthday. I love your selfie, you look wonderful. I’m glad to hear that you’re showered with many blessings with friends and cards, emails, and text…. to feel your happy!!
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Thank you and…thank you! It’s very sweet of you to say 😀
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You look very pretty. I’m retired since 2010. I keep good thoughts….
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Bon anniversaire, ma grande. “T’inquiète”. Tu as encore beaucoup de très belles années devant toi.
(Continue avec les selfies pour la plus grande joie de tes admirateurs.)
Biz.
B.
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J’espère bien! 😉
Merci quand même en attendant 🙂
Oh ben, en effet…si c’est pour les admirateurs… 😂
Biz
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Bon ouiquande. 😉
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Pareille! 😉
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Hope your special day was full of all the things that make you smile! 🙂
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Thank you, Joanne 🙂
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Happy Birthday!!!
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Thank you!!
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I missed it. Happy Birthday wishes late.
(and there is no selfie quota)
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Better late than never 🙂 thank you!
Is there not? There should be. For everyone. So many girls are sadly seeking validation through selfies, isn’t it the saddest thing? I wish I could tell them all that’s not the way.
But, even for someone like me who’s never sought validation through her looks, selfies shouldn’t be used and abused. I’m just partial to them because I love fashion and expressing who I am that way
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Some can’t. Some wouldn’t. Some shouldn’t. You can.
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I believe I have just been paid a compliment – thank you!
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Happy belated birthday!
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Thank you so very much 🙂
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Happy Birthday my friend. May this year bring you happiness and grace. 🙂
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Thank you, Charlie. And I’m wishing all those things for you too even though it’s not your birthday but why should we wait for birthdays? 😉
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A belated Happy Birthday from Melbourne! Hope you had a lovely day.
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Aww, how lovely! Thank you very much 🙂
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You’re most welcome. 🙂
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Oh Nathalie, a belated Happy Birthday!🎉🎈I hope your birthday was as special as you are 😃Glad you seemed to have come to grips with the day and were able to see and embrace the wonderful energy in your life…actually, I’m thinking I would like to see and embrace that as well ☺️🔥Happy Birthday sexy girl 💖😘 P.S. please don’t impose a selfie quota. All I want is more😋
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Thank you, Michael! It was a good birthday in the end. I’m glad you can feel the wonderful energy in my life and that it inspires you as well…I’m thinking of those vibes crossing back and forth between the US and the U.K. 😏🔥
I think I might be too much of a selfie slut now to respect any quotas, even self-imposed! 😜
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Speaking for myself, these vibes may be melting the polar caps…🔥Selfie slut, lol! More, more, more📷💃
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You’re probably passed out by the time I read this. A belated happy happy birthday! 🥂
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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Suite de la garde-robe?
So exquisitely french, my dear.
🙂
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Ah, brilliant! I do feel very French 🙂
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Let’s keep that feeling strong. There are dark days for France ahead. 😦
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Making a wish and it’s for you. That this day and the next will follow, filled with love always for a lady divine. Happy belated Nathalie. Hugs and hugs. So many hugs you’d push me away lol btw, you look marvelous darling 🙏➰❤
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Thank you, Antony! And I would NEVER push you away 😘 I’ve missed you 🙁 Sending you lots of hugs and love back 💜
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So sorry I’m late! I hope your day was as wonderful as you!
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Aww, thank you! It was great and so are you! 😘
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so you are a Pisces… I am an Aquarius…hmmm… happy belated birthday
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Ahh, Aquarius: intense, intellectual and very reserved…that makes sense 😉
Thank you!
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Thank you, not sure I am any of those but I can at least try… Pisces dreamy, creative and mystical.
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Well, I don’t know you so I can’t say for sure but Pisces (and INFJs) are very good at reading people even on short acquaintance…so this was my first reading of you and I’d say it’s accurate. As for your Pisces analysis? Spot on 😉
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I suppose I am quite reserved but I am a mystery to myself and other people are even more of an enigma.
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My beautiful wasp waisted Manon. I’m sorry I was traveling when your actual special day passed, please know every day is special because you are in it, and I hope you had a wonderful special day sweetheart. You make 18 look SUPER BOILING HOT my sister.
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Thanks, Cand. It’s perfectly okay, I just got drunk as I do every year
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PS you did get the psychic memo that I want to be your first in line for cast-offs … fabulous dress! Thank fuck I’m the same approximate size! There is a God!
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You are far too good for cast-offs!
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