The Big 3-0

This week, I turned 30. Being the dramatic and sensitive Cancer that I am, you'd think that I would have overreacted. You might have expected me to invest in absurdly expensive eye creams and obsessively investigate my impending varicose veins and crows feet. Not so.

Besides wondering aloud if a woman of 30 should be wearing a skirt that hits well above the knee, entering a new decade didn't bring on so much as a pout (pouting is unbecoming at my age, right?). My mother always says that every decade is better than the last. Considering the fun she is having at 50, I believe it. Besides, how can I possibly hate turning 30, when I am getting married this year?

I love my job, my dog, my friends and my house, and I'm marrying for love. It's shaping up to be a great decade, I think.

I am in LA (where I also celebrated my birthday) at the moment, and am taking opportunity of a little down-time to think about the wedding. Alex is recording, and I am left to my own devices. LA is great, but I am currently without a car, and I have exhausted all of the walkable shopping areas in Glendale. I went a tad crazy at Michael's, too (nothing new). This store often brings on hyperventilation and half a dozen new hobbies on a normal visit. Add to that one bride on a DIY mission, and you have near cardiac arrest. I picked up paper, a myriad of glue/adhesive products, ribbons, tuile, calligraphy pens and florist tape. I am eager to get crafting!

While here, I have also flip-flopped on our dessert for the wedding. I dislike cake, and had hoped that Mom and I could make 115 strawberry tarts. She pointed out, however, that strawberries are not in season in September. Since there is nothing worse than imported strawberries, we returned to the drawing board. I then saw this image:

Gorgeous lemon tarts topped with blueberries! Yum. Same problem though: I don't think that Ontario blueberries will be easy to come by in the fall. Today, however, I picked up, on impulse, the cutest little cupcake kit at Urban Outfitters, complete with 250 colourful liners, recipes and decorating tools:



Ok, I guess we're doing cupcakes! Mom will be happy, as this saves her the chore of pastry making (since my pastry resembles the texture of a hockey puck). I think that cupcakes will be easier.... right Mom? So, I'm not a cake fan, but not everything about the day has to be about me, right? Plus, this could be a good thing: if I dislike the dessert, I won't eat it! Now, if only I could find a reason to steer clear of sweets altogether.