How are you Aries kings and queens doing? Have you literally set fire to anything yet? Have you picked a fight with someone and then sat back enigmatically and refused to engage? Are you missing all of the drama and outside communication? And you probably haven’t gotten to celebrate your birthdays out in the world either. I do feel bad about that – so many Aries peeps are celebrating their birthdays in isolation lockdown, baking cakes for themselves. Elle Fanning is an Aries girl. She’s been on lockdown in LA, apparently. From the looks of her Instagram, I don’t even think she’s with anyone in her family – Dakota posted some throwback photos which makes me think that the sisters are not together. And Elle’s mom sent her a corona-themed birthday cake too:
It’s cute and poor Corona Strawberry Shortcake. I think it’s really sweet that her mom got that for her. But also… of all the “Corona Cakes” out there, why go for that dry-ass fondant? Basically, I’m just using this as an excuse to A) wish all of the Aries peeps a happy birthday and B) talk about sweets and corona cakes. I have been craving sweets during the corona-lockdown, but the last time I went to the grocery store (which felt like a warzone, honestly), I didn’t pick up any cakes. I was more drawn to the brownies, cookies and candy. Are people sitting at home and baking cakes? Or are you supporting local bakeries by ordering corona cakes?
Also, I love this glimpse into Elle’s feminine home. Did she get balloons for herself??
Photos from the Berlin Film Festival in February, courtesy of WENN. Additional photos courtesy of Instagram.
Aries birthday girl here. I had a fabulous middle eastern meal delivered on my day. Screw cake, lets get it on with hummus!
Happy birthday, Aries friend! Middle eastern sounds AMAZING, though my visual of hummus cake did not. Best wishes.
Milk Street has a brownie recipe with Tahini in it, and it looks amazing. I think hummus cake could work if you left out cumin!
Aries girl here too. Had planned for nine solid months a trip to the UK to see London for the first time and a friend in Berlin to celebrate my 40th, soooo much planning. Instead, I spent it at home. Blah. But I’m grateful I’m healthy and everyone I know is healthy. Also, my partner made me a cake while I supervised, which was pretty great, and we got a meal delivered from a great place that usually takes months to get a reservation. Would have loved to get a cake from my favorite bakery, but they’re completely closed right now. Really worried about all these great local places being able to survive this.
A Londoner here wishing you happy birthday Crooksnannies! Hope you make it to our dreary and fair city some day! X
@Huit Thank you! I was so looking forward to it, I’ve wanted to see your city since I was a kid, watching Monty Python and Benny Hill and the Rutles after school (which was probably not at all appropriate for a child, British influences formed my sense of humor, for better or worse). The planning has just made me more determined to go. 🙂
Happy birthday, Jensies! I love your attitude!
@DazedandConfused thank you! 🙂 This has definitely made me very aware and grateful for my health. And also have a low key panic attack whenever I cough or feel even slightly fatigued. What a weird time.
ahahaha awww, happy birthday! I hope you have the chance to get to Berlin once the world gets better, is such an amazing city 🙂
@Paz I definitely will, a friend lives there now so she’s forcing us to put that on the itinerary of any future sojourns. 🙂
Hey, Aries have good traits, too!
Today is my birthday. It’s kind of rough- every year all my friends go all-out for each other’s birthdays- but my sweet friends have been sending me all kinds of care packages! My little sister even sent a mini piñata. I have
multiple virtual happy hours set up. My husband can’t celebrate with me because he has so many projects due, but that’s alright.
My birthday plan had been to fly to Boston to celebrate with my best friend in the world, so that’s a bummer, but I’ll be sure to visit her when things go back to normal, if ever.
Happy birthday all my Aries peeps!
Happy birthday to you!! Sounds like you are making the most of your day and your friends are very sweet!! Enjoy the day.
Happy birthday @Crooksnnannies! Enjoy your day in any way that you can xx
Happy Birthday to you 👏👏👏
Happy birthday, fellow Aries!
Happy birthday! Sorry you are missing out on seeing your friend.
My birthday is tomorrow. I have been planning to get some take out or delivery and support a local restaurant. I’ve had a lot of birthdays, so it’s not a big deal. There are far worse things happening in the world than my missing going out for my birthday. I’ll happily stay home.
Aaaaa! My birthday is tomorrow too!!! I managed to go to shop finakly and got fab bordeaux for half price 🤣🤣 will get some fancy pastry in the morning and video drinks with friends. We will never forget this one!
Very true, and happy birthday, Aries buddy!
Happy birthday twin, olala!! I love a great wine for my birthday. A couple of years ago, I had a delicious Burgundy we drank after watching “Sour Grapes” on Netflix. Fancy pastries and wine sounds like a classic birthday in the making!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to us!!! Dazed and confused!!! Celebrating already!
All I want for my birthday (April 20) is to go outside again! Planned trip to the Caribbean is out the window and I’m so broken up about it. Then I remember to be thankful to have my health!
I’m totally in the same boat, I had to cancel a big trip too. It’s rough, it kind of feels selfish to grieve the loss of that in the face of so much death and pain. But I feel we can do both. We can feel sad that our long-planned trips are cancelled and grateful for our health and sad for others that are suffering.
Best of luck and happy birthday to you!
Happy upcoming birthday, Levans!
I agree with Jensies. You can grieve your loss and be grateful at the same time. These are very complicated times. I’ve never felt so many disparate emotions at one time before.
Hopefully, you both get to go on your vacations soon.
I thought that she lived with her mom (and grandma).
My niece turns 15 next week. We’re planning a car side parade with posters and I’ll leave cupcakes on the sidewalk.
My birthday is in nine days and I’m depressed about it. I was looking forward to a raucous night on the town with my friends. Aries people are great at being the life of the party (along with our comrades the Leos). You haven’t lived properly until you’ve been out on the town with me. I will take you to all the historic bars left in Los Angeles, get in a shouting argument with the jazz quartet about them not knowing any Cole Porter songs which invariably also results in them owing me money, sweet-talk the bartenders everywhere into free cocktails, spontaneously decide to go salsa dancing, and end the night in that little diner in the basement of the Beverly Hills Hotel, drinking champagne and heckling celebrities. Instead I will probably get food delivered from my favorite Italian place and cry in front of ‘An Affair To Remember.’ But birthdays are often difficult for me, they’re just a reminder of how far behind I am in life compared to where I thought I’d be by my mid-twenties. The Aries ambition thing is a double-edged sword. And now because of the coronavirus I have no job, and cannot see my friends or meet people. It might be better to pretend that I don’t have a birthday this year, I am not sure I could tolerate feeling so lonely. Still, I am alive and healthy, and I am grateful to be alive and healthy, and that my family is ok.
The other day I made a lemon cake. When it comes out of the oven you stab it and drench it in citrus syrup and let it sit overnight and then cover it with a glaze. It’s very nice in the afternoon with a cup of tea or coffee, and it isn’t too sweet because of the tartness of the lemon. Our neighbors have a ton of citrus fruits and left us a bag on the doorstep, so now that I’ve gotten through the lemons, I have to figure out what to do with the oranges.
My birthday is next week, and even though I’ve never been a fan of celebrating it, I’m planning on wearing some crazy makeup/outfit. Or something, I’m bored of doing the same day after day. To be honest with you, all I want is this to be over so I can take my dog on a proper walk! Currently we are only allowed to walk them a block and that’s it.
As for literally setting things on fire, I actually did! I lighted some lollipops for a video, but don’t worry I did it over a bucket of water.
Edit: Please don’t take this comment as if I didn’t care about the pandemic, I actually can’t sleep at night thinking of what is to come.
Happy birthday!!
Nothing in your comment make it seem like you don’t care about the pandemic. I think everyone is ready for this to be over. It’s natural. I’m sorry you are having trouble sleeping.
Is Elle 22 or 13? So weird how that generation is stuck in extended adolescence in so many ways…..
It’s my husband’s bday this weekend. Under normal circumstances, we’d be together with the kids; however, he is an AZ driver and working long haul transport of essential supplies and is now gone 10-14 days at a time. He’s “home” for two days between but actually isolating with his team driving partner between runs to avoid the kids/house just in case. We haven’t seen him in a month! We’re gonna bake a cake and his partner got a Twinkie and a candle so we can virtually have cake with the kids via video chat. Happy birthday?
A big thank you for your husband for what he is doing and what he is sacrificing in order to do it.
Aye, I’ve been doing a lot of baking recently, and the trade off for those cute designer cakes is that they require fondant for all the little details. Buttercream is not your design friend past room temperature. It’s a cute cake, though. Hopefully it was moist on the inside – easier if they included strawberries in the batter.
I made the most delicious cake out of joy of cooking for my Aries boy, he just turned 6! We had been planning his birthday for months! It’s the Texas sheet cake recipe, I decided to double the recipe to fit in a half sheet pan(I used an 8 inch round cake cutter to punch out the cake layers). When I was preparing the ingredients, I realized I didn’t have enough sugar( I was short about 100g) so substituted with fancy Mexican cocoa mix) the end result was amazing! This will be my go to chocolate cake from now on! For the frosting I went old school, making a jello chocolate pudding mousse( whipped cream folded into instant chocolate pudding). My son had a great day with two Zoom parties, but man was it stressful trying to make a special day for my little Aries!
It sounds like you did a bang-up job for him @Faithmobile, and he probably had a super time with two parties! Granted, once the stay-at-home order ends he can make up for something he’s missed. At six years old you’d be surprised at how resilient kids are. It’s all in how they see us handling things.
Omg, that sounds so good!
My birthday was a few weeks ago. It sucked. But I worked the night before and they made a Coronavirus piñata and I got to smash it. It was filled with candy and toilet paper.