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The next Elephant Town update will be April 5th; I'm taking this week off. I wish I could say it's to celebrate my birthday all week long, but I'm a bad liar. I'm taking the week off so I can catch up on other work, true to my nature. ;) If you're in the Whole Elephant tier, you'll see what I'm working on soon!

Since today is my real-actual birthday, I'm taking today off so I can go for a birthday hike with a friend, get some outdoor food with Luke, and finish it off with a fire in the yard. Not bad for my second pandemic birthday! After that, it's back to the grind (it's a fun grind, though).

I was dead-set on having a laser tag party for my 40th over a year ago, but it'll have to wait til my 50th, when the hospitalization-from-injury stakes are REALLY high. ;)

Happy Tuesday, from this middle-aged unicorn. <3

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Indira

Happy birthday Danielle! 🎉🥳

Crushbot (security*)

Happy birthday! My 40th was spent working as well; I've been promised a humdinger for my 50th.

Adam

Happy birthday!

Sheri Spangenberg

happy birthday! You could have a life-meaning-and-everything 42nd laser tag birthday in a couple years :D (Husband is having his 40th this year, and is facing the same "...well I guess our plans for a big trip aren't happening" feeling. but I'll be hitting 40 at the same year he's hitting 42 so maybe then we'll be able to do a big trip in celebration for both of us)

Stephanie Swartz

Happy birthday, Danielle! I hope you have a lovely hike. For my fortieth birthday a few years ago, I asked for a fruit hat and a pool party. A couple of my friends attached real and fake fruit to a straw hat and everyone who attended posed for a photo in the hat. I love looking back at those goofy pictures.

Larry Haller

You'll love your 40s! My 40s beat any other decade before that.

dcorsetto

Let's hope there are no unexpected global crises when your 50th hits, and you can humding it up!

dcorsetto

Aww there ya go! That sounds like a blast of a time. :) I hope it makes up for his Pandemic 40th!

Bori Vekony

Aww, welcome to the club, Danielle! 🥳

dcorsetto

I think I will, too! There was too much pressure to love my 30s, and I spent the whole decade worrying about my parents dying before I do. I think a decade of worrying has moved that off the table. Let's hope whatever I fixate on in my 40s is less macabre. ;)

dcorsetto

I hear there are good people here!

Viktor Speer

Happy Birthday 🎉 You are entering the wonderful age where so much that has been anxiety-inducing before becomes "ho-hum, been there, done that". It's called experience and I'm loving it 😁

Jon Barker

Happy Birthday, Danielle 🎂 I'll echo what everybody else has said: your forties are great. It's a mellower phase of life. I exit mine in a few weeks. The most horrifying thing about that is that in a fit of misplaced optimism I got my passport renewed and it doesn't expire till I'm nearly 60 😅

Ray Baehr

Happy birthday!!!! 🎉💖🎉💖🎉💖🎉

Katie McMahon

Happy birthday to you! I hope you get to enjoy lots of delicious cake, aaand that Pip won't steal any from you XD

Es

I know a lot of wonderful people who are currently 40, congrats for joining them and happy birthday!

DieMaster00

Happy Happy Birthday Danielle! I hope you really enjoy your 40's. I think my 40's were a much better decade then any other part of my life. Enjoyed a lot more actual "living" then other parts of my life. Cheers!!!

daniel tal

Happy birthday!!🥳

Ruth Merriam

Have the most wonderfully unexpected fun today. 40 is actually kind of amazing and you really do develop superpowers. I'm going to be 63 this year and I remember my 40s as being a time of kickassery.

kaitou

Happy Birthday from another "other work" person. (I have to wait until next month for my second pandemic birthday.) I guess this makes you 1 COVID-year old...?

Meisterj

Happy birthday! I hope you have a good birthday even if you're not taking the day for your birthday

David Neale-Lorello

The very happiest of birthdays to you! I wish you an excellent and ever-more-delightful decade! I've found that every decade has been better than the previous one and I'm 59. 50s > 40s > 30s > 20s > 10s (of course, I know few people who think their teens were fabulous...). Thank you for all you give (so generously) to the world! I'm glad you were born!

Sabine Dem

I hope you share the cake with the cats. :-) Happy birthday!

Julie Howard

Happy Birthday! Give your cats birthday hugs!

Jemaleddin Cole

Happy Birthday! As you get older it gets harder and harder not to resent people upon realizating that somebody as smart and accomplished as you is so much younger and now I must walk into the sea, but do not let that stop you from having a fantastic birthday!

NJGR

Are you sending us all a piece of cake? 'Cause I love birthday cake! 🎂 🎉

Hugh Eckert

Happy birthday from another March baby! Have fun! My spouse and I celebrate our entire birth-months...

Pooga

Happy birthday! I'm now trying to remember if I ever learned I am exactly 10 years older than you before today...

Theadora

Happy day, and I hope you have great weather and a great hike!

Tim Clayton

Happy birthday Danielle, welcome to the 40 and over club!

Filiz Karahasan

Happy Birthday! 💐🎂 You make a great unicorn!

Amy Crook

Do Laser Tag for your 42nd, it's the Answer! :D

Haunted Hermit

Happy Birthday to our favourite unicorn! 🖤💜🖤🎉🎊🎉🎂

M Aidan

It was my bday yesterday!! (49, oof. But honestly the 40s are awesome) Have a great one!!!!

Deb with the purple bike

Happy Birthdayyyyyyyy! Glad you can find your moments of joy and celebration even during ye olde pandemic. +1 to the idea of laser tag at 42, that's a birthday worth celebrating with something vintage-sci-fi-ish.

Sarah Puls

Happy Birthday!!! I feel the "darn pandemic messed up my birthday" mood 😭 Hopefully this year's is better

Sys

Always nice to see someone enjoying their birthday on their terms, double so in this time of covid. Happy Birthday, Danielle! =)

Miranda Schubert

Happy birthday!! <3 I look forward to hearing about your laser tag birthday in 10 years! ;)

Tuspa Mouse

Happy birthday, Danielle! Thank you for all the joy (and deep thoughts) you've brought us all for so many years!

Terry Peterson

Happy Birthday, Danielle! 🎂 I look forward to playing laser tag with you again when you’re 50. Of course I’ll be 70, so you’ll have to go easy on me.

BrenaMarie

Happy birthday to you! 💜

Sarah Manx

Happy Birthday! 🎂🥳🦄

Keith Bass

Happy (a few days after your) birthday!

David Poole

Happy happy birthday! May all your dreams come true! We wish it was our birthday, so we could party too!

dcorsetto

Luckily I was able to take the day!! Just not the whole week. ;) Thanks Jazz!!

dcorsetto

Ollie got to lick the plate. ;)

dcorsetto

Oohh!! <3 Believe me, I know the feeling! Have you SEEN the art that's coming out of the 20-something cartoonists these days?? (And sometimes I'm hired to TEACH them!! It's TERRIFYING)

dcorsetto

You'll see it in the headlines/Darwin awards!

dcorsetto

Hahaha you'll get an invite! (Holy cow!! You're doing great, 60-something!!)

Pete Jordan

Happy Birthday! I gifted myself an existential crisis for my 40th, and that indirectly led to a marriage that continues to this day, over two decades later; be careful out there! :) Oh, and 40 isn't middle-aged.

Cathi Andrews

Belated Happy Birthday. While I didn't opt to laser tag on my bday (same date as you - but I hit the 5 Oh), I did get in a bit of head-banging at a live gig, so I reckon that quaifies to say you'll likely be fine to laser tag without major incidents.

dcorsetto

Aayyy nice, and happy fiftieth to you!!