Many, many thanks for birthday wishes from far and wide. Here’s what I got, loot-wise:
A check from my mother. Ca-ching.
People Magazine renewed for another year from my sisters.
A Miele vacuum from my significant other. Friends, this is a top of the line appliance.
A ring inscribed sono il tuo Dodo from PLS.
And, from BFF, a small antique frame — inside a rusted razor blade. Genius.
And, for once, when I made my wish I didn’t wish for permanent weight loss or Hugh Grant making my movie. I wished for something real.
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Betsy Lerner 
Do not despair: weight loss programs involving Hugh Grant have worked for many.
Love the BFF gift.
Happy belated birthday, Betsy!
Never stop wishing for the seemingly unrealistic. It’s why god invented birthday candles.
Happy Birthday, Betsy!
I had a big birthday this week — half a century.
My (four) teens gave me an iPod touch — how sweet and brilliant is that? I can read books on it and listen to “podcasts” on it.
They made me promise never to join Facebook, and never, ever to “friend” them
They also gave me a little Gateway “netbook” — a cool little notepad computer — I refuse to tell them that my old eyes can hardly read the screen ….
Yes, the Miele is a true gift of love, costing nearly a mortgage payment to purchase — but they really do last forever and are quite quiet, and sometimes they get a bit sick and all we do is take ours to the Vacuum cleaner hospital ….