♪♪ ♫ ♪ Tis the season to be jolly.... ♫ ♪ ♫

No wait wrong song!! It's supposed to be:

Happy Birthday to you

Well you just turned twenty-two

But yer no taller 

So I won't holler

I'll just whisper it to you...

Now just look at this totally awesome cake I stayed home and made for you - like from scratch and everything. It was 3 layers of fabulous imported Belgian chocolate with all naturally organic vegetable puree icing hand squished by me with love (between my toes). It was such an overwhelmingly, exhausting task that I was famished by the end of it and had to have a piece...

Of course then it looked a bit lopsided so I had to even it out, that of course never works... and so as is wont to happen, it slowly but surely was whittled down to where there was nothing left but crumbs on the plate. Sorry about that. Eating an entire cake kind of makes you ill, which is why I then had to lie down to try and recover from severe sugar overdose.

Now I've ended up sending your Birthday wishes 

straight  from the worlds weirdest John.

Well one of the coolest actually, there are some rather disturbing porcelain potties out there I'll have you know - and that, is what this years theme for the advancing aged is going to be (that's pronounced ay-jed when read ftr)  You of course being the one whose age is advancing hahah!

22 - which generally isn't a notable age in the marketing world being a year past the 21st milestone and three years off the 25th commercial score, would at first glance appear to have no cheering section.

But look again... what have we here? Is there not a hippy-hopped-up artisty-type aunt you have tapping along a keyboard on your behalf ?  And is that not the absolute freakiest cool happy birthday shout-out you've ever seen posted? Cheers my Nephu, at 22 it's time to embrace your awesomeness!

To my way of thinking, 22 is cool - it's twisted and funky and fun and it's the exact point in your life when you'll serve yourself best by giving your head a shake and realizing life is what you make of it - and you need to go for all the good shit you can fill your heart and soul with while you still have pockets big enough to pack all the fabulosity that's out there into them.

Or you could pack some serious joy into one of these:

Go on, I dare you not to think this baby is brilliant!

Because

it

is

AWESOME!

Now, once you get your hands on one of these you might want to relax and paint some of the serene scenery that surrounds you - but before you could, you really have to know just exactly how to relax and truly, truly let yourself feel comfortable in your own skin. When you're awesome it comes naturally. Cats are cool and they can do it, but kittens, now they are awesome - here are 22 tiny tutors in the art of taking it easy:

Once you've mastered these—

You should try this:

Everyone should do it at least once - while you still have the chance to show it off, and hold it long enough for someone to take a pic to prove you could do it - once upon a time...

Back to painting the previously mentioned serene scene, it's very possible you'll have no desire whatsoever to do such a thing regardless of the awesomeness that surrounds you throughout your life - should that happen, may I suggest mimicking this more lively approach to accenting existing art? 

Thrift Store Monsters — Adding fantastical creatures to second-hand art...

Awesome right?  Here's some poor artist's love, sweat and beers that's been abandoned - either by the artists themselves or the original recipients. Not at all an uncommon occurrence for sure - but then rescued and re-loved, sweated over, and what suggests a little more than beers this time to influence the outcome.

Everyone should do this at least once - to some piece of art found wasting away in a thrift store. I probably will, and if you're lucky it'll be your 30th birthday present moo-hah-hah!

And so, in honour of  22 - because you are - and will be for 364 more days...

2 nostrils + 2 earbuds = 22!


Now if you know me at all you know I'm going to try this ;p and I'd put money on that you're going to read it and try it too - so I propose when you do finally see it we get a few others to join in and we'll experiment and see if having a bigger mouth gives you better bass return! Maybe having a jaw-full of metal fillings ups the treble, or how about creating your own wah-wah effects during guitar solo's?


Did you know that the atomic number of Titanium is 22?
Which means you are more precious than gold!


How about that the Titanic was traveling at 22 knots when it crashed?


There are 22 letters in the the Hebrew alphabet - so I figured it'd be cool to write out "Happy Birthday!" in Hebrew to you, but it turns out to be a helluva thing to learn and we're both too old now for me to take that task on - ( no wonder those bibley folks way back when were such a grumpy bunch - how can you share any good jokes when your alphabet has no vowels?!?)

There are 22 chapters of the Revelation of John in the Bible

22 paths in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life

and 22 Major Arcana in a deck of Tarot Cards...

22 is the number of players on the field in a football (soccer) match, and also the number of players on the field at any one time in an American football match



There are 22 standard amino acids

Human beings have 22 pairs of numbered chromosomes, called autosomes (and one pair of sex chromosomes, X and Y which makes 23 - so no sex until next year!)



There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo and they told me to wish YOU a very Happy Birthday!



 There's 22 hundredths of an inch a .22 calibre bullet

people used to say "22 Skidoo"

And although you can't actually Catch-22

 it can

in fact

 catch you =)

Here's a pair of Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptors!



Here's a web page that lists The 22 Habits of Happy People

The worlds most unbeatable, beater engines are the 22R and 22RE respectively

according to yours truly's Celica...

You can go ▼ here ▼ to see all

22 Unbelievable Places that are Hard to Believe Really Exist

Seriously go check it out - here's just one:

 

Zhangye Danxia Landform, China      

There are 22 yards in a chain
(which is 66 feet - or 100 links or 4 rods - honest, look it up!)


There's only 22 minutes in a ½ hour sitcom and a "quotation mark" in a URL it appears as a "%22"


Who knew?



And last but not least, in Numerology 22 is the most powerful of all numbers.
It is often called the Master Builder. The 22 can turn the most ambitious of dreams into reality.
It is potentially the most successful of all numbers—

TA DA!!

 This has been 22 tidbits
about the number 22 — for my Nephu
On his 22nd Birthday

 

Wishing  You  Loads  of  Hugs  Happiness  and  Hilarity

Love,

♥ ♥ Yeranti-Madder  ♥ ♥

 

                                        pigasso's