IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!

Holy shit I am 26. No longer in my early 20′s, no longer allowed to say “Oh I am just young, I didn’t know.” When do you officially grow up? When is it not ok to know something?

It’s funny, because I remember being a very little me and struggling to look over my bathroom counter at my reflection in the mirror, thinking to myself “I wonder what I am going to be like when I am 16″ and then being that defiant, angry and insatiably curious 16 year old thinking, “Hmmm, this is so not what I thought 16 was going to feel like, maybe it will all make sense at 21.”

But alas, at 21 I put off self-realization for another 4 years, thinking that 25 was the magic number. Now I am at 26 and I must say that I do believe this whole “magic number of enlightenment and calm” is all a total lie and hoax that I have convinced myself to believe to make everything seem a little more calm and controlled.

I am 26, I love to act, I am getting wrinkles on my forehead, my arms are still not as toned as I would like and I have a small pot belly. I love movies, plays, music, and art and I love to eat ice cream out of the carton.

My mom still has the best smell in the world, and cross legged on the ground is the most comfortable way to eat at a picnic. All things I thought I would “grow out of” when I hit that magical number. Thank god it doesn’t exist!

I love to play and fuck up and be all over the place.
I love feeling forever suprised by my life.
I will always want to learn new things and I will always be afraid of what I don’t know.

So here is to another spin around the sun.
I think it is going to be a good year my friends, a very good year.photo-5.jpgphoto-1.jpgphoto-2.jpgphoto-3.jpgphoto-4.jpg

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  • Claude

    Happy Birthday Allison.
    May you have many many more!

  • http://musical-addiction411.deviantart.com/ Janelle

    Happy Birthday Allison!! Loved the pictures:-)

  • http://AllisonMack Frank

    Allison, I just wanted to wish you a “Happy 26th Birthday” !!!
    (You look great…no matter the number).
    It looks like you enjoyed YOUR day….thats great!!
    Nevertheless, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed
    you in SMALLVILLE, and looking forward to your storyline
    in Season 8. Good Luck.
    Frank, Cape Coral, FL

  • http://myspace.com/buffythevaslayer Vanessa

    Hey Allison happy birthday :)
    I hope all your wish come true you deserve it.
    Your a great person sometimes you remind me of
    my self, It’s like sometimes you read my mind it’s
    pretty funny how it happens.
    As to what you said about the magical number
    “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”
    :) haha, I’m 15 currently and yes!!! I’m a bit freaked out
    (more like a whole bunch.) about what’s going to happen in
    3 years when I become 18. For the pass weeks you’ve been
    talking about Balance and things about what you like doing and you realized acting was it.
    I really have a very big internist in acting it’s been my interest seen’s for ever. But I hate to say it but I question my self if weather I’m going to make it.

    (You might be asking yourself why ?)
    Well this past freshmen year I put my
    self on the spot and decided to join theater
    even if it scared the crap out of me I was
    going to do this. So okay I was there and
    then they told I was going to be Juliet the
    play was Rome & Juliet of course I had a great time.
    But then along comes this girl and asks me what I wanted to be
    when I grow up and I reply “I want to be an actress” she laughed at
    me and walked away. I got to say that really broke my heart I didn’t really understand why
    at that moment seen’s I’ve always been independent even with my handicap problems
    I really have to thank my mother and my friends for not making me feel deferent from
    everyone else even if my legs don’t work like there’s, I might not be able to run as I
    would wish or just simply walk but I really know my passion for acting but I ask myself if
    wether I have a chance do to what I can’t see myself not doing “Acting!”.
    Truthfully I’m afraid of rejection just because my legs, Afraid of not being
    able to reach my goals.

    Okay back to “magical number”
    Right now I just realised it’s not
    going to change who I em thanks to you I’m realizing how
    age doesn’t really matter at all. And I’m ready to be an
    age.

    P.S. Allison I’m a big fan of yours! :)
    tehehe.
    Omg great pictures!
    I have to tell you it made my day!
    lol

    (I talk alot haha.)

    Big fan of yours,
    Vanessa.

  • Brittny

    Happy Birthday Allison! Thanks for Seven… going on eight years of fabulous Chloe! And you personally put so much beauty into the world… The joyfulness of your post reminded me of one of my fave authors…

    If we didn’t have birthdays, you wouldn’t be you
    If you’d never been born well then what would you do?
    If you’d never been born well then what would you be?
    You MIGHT be a fish! Or a toad in a tree!
    You might be a doorknob! Or three baked potatoes!
    You might be a bag full of hard green tomatoes.
    Or worse than all that… why you might be a wasn’t!
    A wasn’t has no fun at all. No he doesn’t.
    A wasn’t just isn’t. He just isn’t present.
    But you… You ARE YOU! Now isn’t that pleasant?

    Today you are you! That is truer than true!
    There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
    Shout loud, “I am lucky to be what I am!
    Thank goodness I’m not just a clam or a ham
    Or a dusty old jar of sour gooseberry jam!
    I am what I am! That’s a great thing to be!
    If I say so myself, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!”

    heeheehee I’m 27 and hope to NEVER outgrow Dr. Suess.

  • Tola

    Happy Birthday Allison, First of all love the pictures. fab!!

    Hope u have a great day!!! I had i class day myself as today is also my lil sister’s birthday she turned eight. she doesn’t watch smallivlle but she thinks u’r gorgeous and she says it because you share the same b-day with her..LoL. i didn’t argue with her!!! LoL
    Hope you had a blast, your b-day pictures assure me of dat fact!! so here is to many more years to come along with happiness, joy, success, love and all your heart desires.

    love
    Tola

    My lil sis Eni says Happy Birthday and hope u had a blast cause she did!!!!!!

  • Lisa V

    Happy Birthday Allison! I agree with what you and others on here have been writing. There is no magical number. I just turned 30 this year and I thought, oh my god, I have to finally start acting like a grown up and stop fucking up so much. Act like an adult. It’s not true. I believe everyone should learn from their experiences but ultimately should just be themselves. Keep learning, keep enjoying, and just do what you think is right. Life is all about the experience and I believe we should all try to get the most out of every moment and not get hung up on not making mistakes. There is a quote that I love and I believe I also saw it here on your website. It is: “Life is not the number of breaths you take but the number of moments that take your breath away.” Anyway, enough with the deep thinking today. I hope you have a wonderful day and many, many more. Happy Birthday!

  • WOrias

    Happy Birthday Allison!

    This statement:

    “Now I am at 26 and I must say that I do believe this whole “magic number of enlightenment and calm” is all a total lie and hoax that I have convinced myself to believe to make everything seem a little more calm and controlled.”

    Makes me think you are even closer to that enlightenment and calm you have been looking for :)

    Have a wonderful Birthday.

  • http://rjchasez.livejournal.com RJChasez

    Happy Birthday to my favorite person in the entire world! And yes, I really mean that. lol I hope your day has been absolutely beautiful, and that 26 is a wonderful year for you. <3

    My Dad, the 73-year-old Smallville fanboy, wishes you a good one, as well. :p

    Those pictures are adorable, by the way.

    Becca

  • Emily

    Happy birthday Ms. Mack!! And just to let you know, I don’t believe we ever grow up. Ever. I’m at that first magical age – 16 – and I still watch and LOVE Disney, squeal like a little girl when I get excited, sit curled up into a ball in my desk at school, hold my dad’s hand in parking lots, color in coloring books, annoy the heck out of my older brother, and love mac’n'cheese. Being young is something you never have to grow out of. =D Thank goodness!! Happy birthday again!!

    Love from Arkansas,
    Emily

  • Ryan

    Happy Birthday Allison!!!!

    Enlightenment does not have an age, just keep enjoying what you do and helping where you can.

  • Taty

    Happy birthday Allison. I wish you all the best. I hope all your dreams come true. Enjoy your day and God bless you!!
    xoxo
    Taty

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/hanna1804 hanna1804

    Happy 26th birthday Allison!! I wish you the best, may your dreams come true ^^

    Love (from France),
    xoxo
    Hanna.

  • http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/harv/ David Harvey

    “But alas, at 21 I put off self-realization for another 4 years, thinking that 25 was the magic number. Now I am at 26 and I must say that I do believe this whole “magic number of enlightenment and calm” is all a total lie and hoax that I have convinced myself to believe to make everything seem a little more calm and controlled.”

    Ha-ha!! That is so funny, I too used to think there was this “magic age” a person turned and – all of a sudden – they would be ‘a grown up’. Then we’d know everything we were supposed to, and act the right way all the time. Being the senior here (I’ve got two years on you Allison ;P), I can say that I’ve finally learned that there is no “magic age” when a person realizes that they’re grown-up (or as we put it growing up, ‘a grown-up’). Still, isn’t it funny though, that as we age – our definiton of what “old” is seems to change??!!!! LOL!!!

    Anyhow, many happy returns to you on your special day!!!

  • Kris

    Happy birthday!

    And yeah, I may only be a couple of years ahead, but I doubt assigning a life expectancy to confusion is all that productive. Best just to see where the journey takes you and enjoy every second of it.

    I hope you have a fabulous day!

  • Marcela

    Feliz aniversário Allison! Só queria dizer que você é uma atriz fantástica!
    Tudo de bom para você.

  • http://hijademusica.livejournal.com Hijademusica

    Happy Birthday!! I would impart some kernel of wisdom, but I’m fresh out for the day. Hope your day was magical.

  • Brittany

    Hey Allison……HAPPY BIRTHDAY! You do not have wrinkles! Your the most gorgeous girl I’ve ever seen. Do not be defined by your age. I hate it when people tell you to act your age when you’re just having fun. Be immature, do whatever the hell you want! :P Follow your dreams and pursue your goals because you have the full capacity to do it! I remember watching the movie you were in at a young age : Honey, we shrunk ourselves. I was like, that girl look so familiar, she’s Allison Mack from Smallville! Then after the movie I looked through the credits to see if it was you or not and I prooved myself right! Anyways thought I should share that. You seem to be having fun in your pictures! Same faces you make on the Smallville Gag Reel! I can relate to you so much because we share some of the same passions. I love to act and I enjoy watching plays! Me and my friend always rent movies every weekend! You truly inspire me. Since I was young, I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be 15 or 16, and I think our knowledge and questions gradually grow and develop with us so we don’t find ourselves looking at it in that way. Thinking, it’s no biggy being fifteen or how did I find that exciting? Anyhow, trying not to make this long…hehe, I believe it will be another good year with you leading us into infinty and beyond. But serioulsy, thank you for having made this blog and sharing your personal stories and feelings with us. I can’t feel any more closer to you then I am. So I send you my happiness and I hope you have a wonderful day. Love and peace, Brittany

  • Becca

    I hope that your special day was magnificent!! All Birthdays should be especially awesome people with middle of the summer birthdays :-D

    Happiness and joy make the world such a better place and that comes across here on your blog so thanks for making the world a better and brighter place!!

    As someone a few years younger it’s comforting to know that you don’t have to have all of the answers figured out yet.

    Thanks for all of the joy you spread and hopefully your birthday was filled with tons and tons of joy and magic.

  • http://traitors-stead.com Allie

    Happy Birthday!!!!!

    Hope that you do have a wonderful year, filled with moments of joy and happiness!!!!! :D

  • Scott

    Happy Birthday Allison, your not old yet im 11 yrs older than you :) I fell like im still in my 20′s . I like to workout stay in shape and eat right. We meet in june at Metroplis Il, what a crazy day that was. Anyway have a Great Birthday! and enjoy being 26 it’s a fun number. LOL

    xoxo
    Scott

  • laura

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLISON!!!

    May your day be as special as you are!! <3

  • Shane K

    Happy birthday Allison ^^

    great blog and hope everything is going well for you, and may your elegance, beauty and happiness drive your ambitions into a great future.
    good luck on another great year, by the way you look amazing :P (like you didn’t know that lol)

    best wishes for this year :)

  • Ann Kinchen

    Oh my goodness! I LOVE reading your posts. You are so articulate with your words and are able to capture the thoughts everyone has so well. You should be a screenwriter. This post is so right. I know exactly what you’re talking about.

  • Arash

    I doubt if you get so far down to this point to read this,
    I mean I am really hoping you have better things to do on your
    B-day than reading repetitive messages.
    But I was looking at the number of people who wished you and I said man this is going to be a new record high and I want to be a part of it.

    When I was yonger I asked God to give me 25 years to live. After that I consider every moment extra bonus, a gift. I am happy and thankful.

    I see you are examining different ways of kissing the ground. Doesn’t that feel great ?

  • http://www.chloesullivansite.com/ Bouroux

    Hi Allison

    Happy Birthday Allison!! I hope you have a wonderful year!
    At 26, You’re well on your second quarter of a century.
    This birthday comment is amazing and full of realism.
    It’s charming your description of the magic age. Each age is magic. The important thing is to discover where the magic is hidden. You seem more and more clever to find it and show it to your fans.

    Thanks Allison.
    Have a good evening.

    Claude.

  • silvia

    i wish you the best things in the world and i hope that all your ambitions will come true.
    have a amazing day with your friends and family

    !!!FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS MI AMIGA :) !!!!!
    !!!!HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!!!!
    !!!!BON ANIVERSAIRE MON AMIE !!!!

  • Dick B

    Have a happy chocolate chip birthday!!

  • Marie

    Happy Birthday Allison РFeliz Cumplea̱os Allison

    I wish you a great year and all the love :) You’re an amazing person and artist. As a fan of your work i want to thank you for all this magnificent years in smallville.

    Thanks for being just like you are… and for take the time everyday to write on your blog.

    Happy 26th birthday!!

  • http://valeriec.hi5.com valeria carlo

    first of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! yay you!!!
    and I totally know the feeling, I turned 20 this year and I was so depressed about it, because I thought maybe I have not matured enough and all that deep stuff I tend to think sometimes, but life is only one, and maybe you should just be happy for getting another year of life, that is a present, you should only worry about living it fully, and as happy as you can. you are right! It’s going to be a great year :)

  • Ademir Rafael

    Hi Allisson! Happy Birthday (some late)!!!
    I ‘m from Brazil and I’m your fan!
    I love you so much, you’re fantastic in any hole you play, especially SMALLVILLE!
    I wish you everything all great, you deserve it!
    You’re great great great how you are!
    God bless you so much!
    Thank you for all this years of ALLISSON MACK!
    HAPPY 26TH BIRTHDAY!!!

    You make us so much happy and we thanks!

    “Happy Birthday
    Feliz Cumpleaños
    Feliz Aniversário”

    With desires of Hapiness, Health, Love, Peace, Success, and ALL THE BEST for you…

    Ademir Rafael

    PS: I would so much happy and proud if you respond me (ademirrafaelmg@hotmail.com)!!! Even you couldn’t I’m just happy for you exist in our lives… Thank you!

  • http://www.jephthahs-domain.com/ Sarah

    In my timezone, I’ve still got 3 minutes to wish you a happy birthday… so HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

    You seem genuinely happy with who you are, and I think that’s awesome. I hope to never hit my “magic number” and still feel dignified in doing things I’ve loved to do since forever. :)

  • Christopher Wanamaker

    Happy Birthday Allison,

    I hope you have an amazingly fun filled, exciting, and some what relaxing 26th birthday. May the following year be as wonderful and have as many exciting adventures and challeges for you as you have had this past year. May your heart, soul, and mind still reach out to all of us who admire, respect, and look up to you. Your words, your thoughts, and your emotions are felt by, listened to, and encouraged by many. Your are the type woman who all men and women of all ages can look up to and be admired by. Your teachings, your ways, and the examples you set for others is rare and wonderful and will be lengendary. Your are a role model for all those who care to listen and learn from you. The words you speak here and the things you talk about and teach us show great wisdom and harmony of life in one who is so young and beautiful. And your beauty, especially those soft gentle gazing eyes and piercing sweet white smile will rival all the rest for many years to come. And may your beauty still drive all your male fans crazy and inspire artists to create beauty in the name of your beauty like you have done for me. Your an inspiration to us all and I hope you never change who you really are. You are a role model to me and I hope one day I get the chance to meet you and get to know the real you and maybe make a new friend. I can’t wait to see you in season 8 of Smallville and I hope everything with your movie “Alice and Huck” is going really well to, I can’t wait to see them both. I do have a question though are you planning on doing any type of Charity thing for you Birthday like you usually do, with prizes like autographed photos like last year. I also hope that you keep moving forward with the whole singing thing your an amazing singer. Maybe you should think about making a CD with your top dozen or so songs and then autograph them and sell them as a Juicey Peach product, just a thought. I also would like to give my best wishes to your father for a speedy and healthy recovery from his cancer. I will prey to God for him and for you. Keep up the amazing and inspiring work you do for us all and again Happy “26th” Birthday to you. Your friend and layol fan SGT Christopher Wanamaker Supply Sergeant for the US Army, FT. Lewis, WA.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=667673245 Camila

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=667673245 Camila

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I WISH YOUR PATH TO BE FILLED WITH SUCCESS
    LOVE,
    CAMI

  • Ternes Cochrane

    Holy crap! Happy Birthday, Allison! I was going to tell you a day early at the Smallville panel, and I was only three people from the microphone, but they said no more questions! And my buddy Ed, the tall guy that asked about Chloe using her powers, forgot. That pretty much ruined my day, but at least I saw the panel(always a silver lining, right?).

    Any way, congratulations on Smallville Season 8, turning 26, and being one of the few female role models that I only wish more women looked up to.

    You make me smile, Allison. Keep doing what you’re doing!

    Ternes Cochrane

  • Bob

    Happy Birthday!!! :)

  • anye

    Happy Birthday…
    hopely God will gives the best for you!!!

    Just be the better person day by day..
    and be the best person for the people loves you..

    love,
    Anye

  • JNottle

    Happy birthday!

    Sorry it’s late but I just found this site.

    I just wanted to say I think you’re an amazing actor and you seem like a real kind, down to earth person from all the things I’ve read. :)

  • James

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

    (the caps are because I forgot to check the blog yesterday:) Hope they make up for it)

  • http://yahoo ulises cervantes

    sabes espero pases un dia super, en mexico somos super fan`s de esta serie y en especial tu eres uno de los mejores personajes, solo espero que este dia te lo pases el lado de tus seres mas queridos y mas allegados a ti, que sigas cumpliendo muchissssssssisisisisisisisisisismos mas suerte y cuidate.

    p.d. no se te olvide en mexico te queremos mucho besos.

    uli.

  • http://heideggerian.blogspot.com Kevin Winters

    Happy belated b-day, Allison. May your next year be filled with joy in the present, forgiveness for the past, and living each moment as if it were your last.

    Kevin

  • angela

    Happy belated birthday! May the next 12 months be filled with joy and exciting new experiences!

    And, don’t forget: age is just a number. You’re always as old as you feel (in my case that would be 4), and to some people you simply never grow up – i.e. the parents. *lol*

    Love from Germany,
    Angela

  • moviexpert

    Happy Birthday.
    A day late, I apologize.
    I hope you had an absolute amazing day.
    Ashley

  • Aysha

    Happy Birthday!

    Yeah, I’m 23 and still clueless as to when I will grow up. I don’t think life will ever make sense to us, so we should just take it as it is and enjoy our youth, regardless of how old we are. As long as we can make sense of ourselves and accept ourselves for who we are, we’re doin’ good!

    Best Wishes,
    Aysha

  • paul t

    it’s a little late but Happy BirthDay allison , i’m from Equator and we love you here … can you believe i have 3 friend with the same birth day ? , really !! they are ely, giovanny and mishelle , so this is a really special day for me and of course for you … congratulation allison and lucky 4ever … bye …

  • amanda_t1979

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLISON…no i totally did NOT forget. i actually thought about you all day yesterday, i just never was near a computer. i think its funny how you started out (to me) a girl i thought was really pretty and probably really cool, at least i totally loved her character on tv so she probably was really really cool…and now thanks to this site and your blog and your videos, its like we’re totally friends! which is so cool considering we have never met. *sigh* 26. 26 looks pretty good when your staring the dreaded 29 and holding in the face. its my little sister’s bday today and she is turning 24 and feeling “soooooo ooooold”. i told her no matter how old you get, there will always be someone older wishing they were as young as you. HA profound! my little baby boy just turned one year old on the 25th…he was due on your bday but got impatient. i think he was afraid of me naming him ally or something hehe. i sent you a picture of him for the joy event….little boy in orange smiling his head off? well hope your day was awesome…sounds like it was. go see mamma mia, if you haven’t already. its an incredible movie. to me it just embodies life and energy and so much FUN! i defy anyone to watch it and hold on to a bad mood!

  • Silvia

    Happy Birthday to you…happy birthday to you…Happy Birthday Allison! Buon Compleanno!!!
    with admiration
    Silvia
    (From Rome, Italy)

  • Vanesa

    Feliz Cumpleaños Allison!!!!…Quizás un poco tarde…pero creo que no hay tiempo para enviar buenos deseos…Que este nuevo año le brinde infinidad de bendiciones!!!…Sepa disculpar mi ignorancia del idioma inglés,…pero no quería dejar de saludarla…el universo se encargará de enviarles mis bendiciones y buenos deseos, no necesita entender lo que dice aquí…Muchos besos y abrazos desde Argentina….Que en estos tiempos de cambio se vea rodeada de amor y luz…Con todo mi corazón… Vanesa.

  • Rosa & Rocio (Twins)

    Happy Birthday Allison!!! your birthday have already passed but it´s never too late, isn´t it?? :)
    We think that you are a great actress!! we really think it!!!

    We send you greetings from Spain!!!

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN!!!!:)))

    Rosa & Rocio!!

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