As some of you might know, my scary birthday is coming up (less than six months now - yikes!). I've been planning for a long time to do something special to help ease the pain, but I haven't been able to decide on exactly what I want to do. Initially I thought I would have a big bash in Las Vegas. After all, where else is it totally acceptable for a person to be drinking at 9:00 a.m. in the morning? And if I have to have my scary birthday, there's going to be a lot of drinking.

But then I thought that Las Vegas in February would be too cold. I want to be sitting on the beach somewhere under an umbrella sipping a girlie drink with a cabana boy at my beck and call (a girl can dream, right?). So that got me thinking about warm weather locals that would be nice in February. Spot the problem yet? Any place I can think of will be crowded with Spring Break kids. Yeah. I'm on the slippery slope as it is, and I'm pretty sure one look at the Spring Break crowd is all that I'll need to send me over the edge.

My friend Jennie has suggested the Bahamas, which is definitely one possibility, but I don't want to stay at a huge resort like Atlantis. I would rather stay in a resort in Jamaica like the one Stella stayed at. Which led Jennie to ask me, "Are you a 40-year-old black woman?" I feel like I am sometimes.

If you could do something fun for your scary birthday, what would it be?

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