July 08th, 2022

Tomorrow is my birthday!!    AND our local library is having another $5 a bag book sale on the same day!  What a Perfectly "Sam" sort of way to celebrate!! I am very excited ;)  I will absolutely be there with my five dollars in my hand, as soon as they open their doors! 

Since this is being posted the day before the anniversary of my actual birth,  you know what that means, right?  Yup, it's time for the Birthday Rules!

As you all know, I am a firm believer in the birthday rules and once every year, I  feel compelled to remind everyone about those rules!  Since tomorrow (my actual birthday) is a Saturday and I never post on a weekend, this year, the Birthday Rules are coming a day early.  


                                                                 BIRTHDAY RULES

1. Number one and most important on this hit parade:  It's all about the birthday person.  It really is.  No exceptions. If it's your birthday, everything that day is about you. Period.

2. Of course, to be absolutely fair, I am not a person who really likes being the center of a big crowd of people. But a small, comfortable, familiar crowd is fine. In fact it's awesome.  A small group of people that I really care about it absolutely perfect.  If that group consists of me and one other person, sometimes that is the best group of all.

3. And there should be at least one treat that a person rarely has, like cake. Or ice cream.  Or cake AND ice cream.  And for heaven's sakes, if a person is going to indulge, it should be the good stuff. The real deal. No fake, crappy substitutes.  And speaking as a person with Lactose Intolerance, if I'm going to suffer later, I want the suffering to be worthwhile, which means the ice cream must be primo.

4. There should be a few cards, some of them should have sparkles, some flowers, some funny, some touching or maybe thought provoking. I like cards.  I set them up on top of the big display cabinet in the living room and admire them for far too long afterwards.

5. There should be some sort of contact from people far away, whether it's phone calls or emails or texts or facebook posts or telepathic thoughts, heaps of good wishes from folks far away makes a birthday extra special.  To think that all of those people bothered to take the time to acknowledge your existence on your birthday shows that you matter in this life.  That's important.

6. There should be no chores on your birthday.  Not one single solitary gotta-do should be done by the birthday celebrant.  Those things can either wait a day to be done, or someone else needs to do them.  I'm immovable on this fact.

7. The birthday person gets to choose what or where to eat for dinner.  And no matter what they choose, that's what dinner is.  Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.  It is the ONE day of the entire year where nobody else's likes/dislikes/or personal opinion should take precedence regarding food.

8. It should be a happy day.  Only positive comments and thoughts please.  It should be a day of smiles and laughter. If there is something negative or sad that needs to be said, keep it to yourself for one more day.  Not even boredom is allowed.

YAYAYAYAYAY!!  I'm very excited.  Yes, this means that I am officially one year older.  I have no idea what time of day I was born, so I will just say as of the moment I open my eyes tomorrow morning, I will be 69 years old!  Holy Cats that sounds old!  BUT it doesn't feel any older than I was last year, or the year before that or the year before that........     I'm sure you see the pattern there.  It's just a number.  And it has only as much importance as I choose to give it.  I choose to give it VERY little.  I will be too busy celebrating ME to be bummed about a silly number.

Monday will be Tim's birthday and then the rules will apply to him :)  See how that works?

Have a wonderful weekend. I absolutely will.  It's Birthday Weekend!  Huzzah!​