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Congratulations on having a 21-year old daughter, Jen!

I'm celebrating the fact that the cherry blossom season is almost upon us here in Tokyo.

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Mar 14Liked by Jen Zug

Woohoo! Happy Birthday! Fun friend MeetCute. 🎉

I am celebrating one year of Eastside Improv! I started organizing it because I wanted to do improv in Redmond, WA. I keep organizing it because the community & individuals involved are amazing and I still want to do improv in Redmond. 🤣

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Mar 14Liked by Jen Zug

What?! 21?! How? Lol a belated happy birthday to Ruthie! I'm just coming back from a Gothic Cruise. Yes, Gothic themed lol. It was a lot of fun and I met some pretty awesome people so I'm celebrating that. Hope you are feeling better.

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Oh my goodness I laughed so hard looking at the bar set. What a great way to know you've got a great friend! And congratulations on having an 'official' adult!

I've been celebrating my new second citizenship in the UK, and a successful surgery outcome for my mother-in-law.

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Mar 14Liked by Jen Zug

Happy 100 issues to you.

And happy belated birthday to your daughter.

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Oh, how lovely!!!!! Happy birthday Ruthie, and congratulations Jen on having a 21-year-old! My parents are getting a new 50-year-old later this year, and this post of yours has made me smile both for you AND for me - and how it's making me think of my own relationships with those of my own age!

Happy Hour - I LOVED this part!!!!! 🍹🤣🍸

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Congratulations on both counts! Wow, 21 seems so far away for my kids, but I know it’s right around the corner. Kids friends who become our friends are such a treasure!

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Congratulations on #100! And having a 21-year old! I join that club in about 7 months!

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Mar 14Liked by Jen Zug

Love it. You have the best stories! Great job on 100 posts. I have enjoyed them all. Worth celebrating.

I am celebrating that I believe my February sickness is finally coming to an end. Not over, over but not interrupting my life anymore. cough, cough, cough. I am also celebrating my updated living room. John scraped the ceiling, painted the walls and put in new flooring. Our old furniture and wall hangings look new and modern. Like this color was what they wanted all along. So I guess I am celebrating Sherwin Williams "Taupe of the Morning". ha ha.

And Riss dumping the narcissist. Yesterday I cut a couple pages out of the shutterfly book I made with her senior pictures. They got pictures together and I added a few at the end of the book with the thought that I could just cut them out if they broke up. (they were planning marriage when I made the book, I go where my kids go, but I am also a realist.) It was an incredibly satisfying moment.

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Congratulations on the special milestone! I'm celebrating submitting a chapter to AWP for their writing mentor program! Oh, and the longer days of spring + sunshine arriving 😄

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You did it! You raised a human! Or are they not done yet at 21? 🤔

Over here I am celebrating getting another paying gig as a storyteller, I'm going to Santa Barbara next month!

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Happy 21 to your daughter! Here is to many, many happy hours :)

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Woot! Officially accepted at Alabama (online) to start my master’s in library science!!

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