I had to provide my date of birth several times this week, and each time I thought,
"Oh, my birthday is next Tuesday! Maybe I should do something special."
The fact is, I already bought myself a birthday present months ago, and put it aside because it's for my *birthday* and it's a book, so not likely to spoil in the meantime.
Today I realized something: my birthday is not Tuesday.
My birthday is Monday. Tomorrow.
Time can really sneak up on a person.
I'll be a whole year older, one day sooner.
The up-side is, I can open my book tomorrow!
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Birth days have a habit of sneaking up on you when you're not looking. I wish you a happy day!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mary Anne! There have been years when a birthday has slipped right past without me noticing, but now I try to celebrate All The Things, if only with carrot pennies for my entourage :)
DeleteHappy birthday! Enjoy your birthday book.
ReplyDeleteThank you, and I hope your birthday is wonderful too!
DeleteHappy birthday, Quinn! I share your birthday, and haven’t bought myself a present this year (unless you count the new furnace and water heater — they contribute mightily to my comfort, but they aren’t chocolate or a book). This birthday is remarkably uneventful for me, which is maybe how the rest of them will be. 72 is a fine age, but nothing to get excited about. I hope your birthday is as eventful as you would like, and a wonderful day! Cam
ReplyDeleteThank you, Cam, and Happy Birthday to you! My Occasional Helper also shares our birthday, although decades behind us. And I would definitely consider a new furnace and water heater to be excellent presents, of the "gift that goes on giving" variety! Personally I'd rather have heat and no book than the other way round :) Fortunately for me I've got both, as long as I can keep fetching in another armload of wood for the stove.
DeleteExciting update: my brother sent me a new edition of The 13 Clocks, one of my favorites! So, book after all!
DeleteHappy birthday!
ReplyDeleteThank you!!
DeleteHappy birthday, Quinn and Cam! Boud and I are Sags too. :-)
ReplyDeleteChris from Boise
Thanks so much, Chris! And my Occasional Helper's birthday is also today :)
DeleteAnd happy birthday to O.H. as well!
DeleteThanks, I'll tell him when next I see him :)
DeleteMonday is today! Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Leigh! We got our first real snow last night - in honor of the day, no doubt ;)
DeleteHappy Birthday!
ReplyDelete🥳🎂🍧
Thank you!
DeleteWell, happy birthday, my friend! And to your Occasional Helper Too!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much! And I'll pass that message along :)
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