It sounds like you had a nice birthday and got in some fun time.

We are getting snow tomorrow and colder temps. Riding the weather train - up and down this winter!

So looking forward to spring.

Julie

Glad you had fun Debbie. I agree birthdays when you are a caregiver do tend to be a bit of a let-down but if friends and family remember that is magic. So a year older, a year wiser....hip hip hooray!

Glad to hear you enjoyed your "gala week" as Ray used to call it: According to him you were officially king or queen for many days before and sometimes even a few days after, depending on how close to the weekend it fell. Of course this was mostly in regard to him (it was actually sort of a joke) I had to keep reminding him to worship me in the manner to which I would like to become accustomed when mine came around. Good times!

I miss shopping by catalog from Spiegals, and even for the "normal" clothes at Victorias Secret (they used to have some really classy stuff besides underwear. I swear!). I am just now culling my closet of my professional work outfits from the '80s and '90s, the designs are kind of timeless but would only look good on a 50+ woman I guess. I know those days are over for me, and I did get a lot of use out of them over the years. No need to replace, I live in sweats and T shirts now. I'm the proverbial woman who has one or two special occasion outfits, which I very well may never wear again! As for underwear, well we won't go there.

I've been very low key with my birthdays since the stroke, as a matter of fact last year I had some kind of bug and just ignored the whole thing. No biggie, since our anniversary is a week before and Ray's is a week after; as a matter of fact financially it worked out very well for us!

But this year is my 60th, and god willing if I am healthy this time around, I already have the fanciest French restaurant picked out for dinner that night. It's even on the weekend, yay! Who cares if we have to cut back on the other two celebrations! We like pizza and Chinese too. Going out to eat was always our celebration style, it's still a few months away but hoping all is bright and shiny by then.

Hopefully your health insurance call went well, I had a brief respite and am again on the phone for hours trying to get everything figured out. Can't wait til I can sit back and relax, and know I am covered for the immediate future. Hopefully by the spring!

Belatedly...happy birthday!

no shopping excursions ?? whre the list is found outside ... lol -- not funny but if we don't laugh we cry right ?? Happy belated birthday .... sounds like you had a pretty good one..

Debbie :

Belated happy birthday glad you had great time

Asha

Glad you had a wonderful birthday. Sometimes just having things keep going is the definition of wonderful! Hey, we were engulfed with those stink bugs this summer. They were in our house alot. They are pretty docile and I could just walk up and rake one off the wall and then pitch it outside with no problem. I've always heard they only stink up the place if you squish them, or maybe they can do it at will if they see you coming. But, as many as we had, I never tried to kill any, just put them out, and no stink to pay. The really weird part of this story is when I lit the first fire in the fireplace this winter, a bunch of them came dropping out of the chimney and crawling around the outskirts of the small fire. Apparently using it to winter over. I have seen a couple this week still, hope they don't re-inforce themselves again this summer!

Happy belated birthday Debbie, please that you enjoyed it!

Yvonne