July 19th - They Say It's My Birthday!
65Take Flight! Up up and Away!
My Favorite Commercial
I Love, I Love, I Love
For Fun, My Dad and I Sang This Song as A Duet
This Reminds My of My Sassy Mom
No Wise Words, Just Crab Legs and Cake
Nothing heavy and wise tonight, it's my birthday tomorrow, and my brain is on a day off.
After a week of reflecting on the shopping trio of Mom, a guide dog, and a sarcastic teen, remembering a Dad who "did" and "gave" at every turn, walking fast through the memory lane of foster care, remembering my brother who traveled the world and held nuclear reactors together with band aids and bubble gum off the coast of Italy, and then being afraid of the boogey men who have invaded our storage site at night causing us to repair storage unit doors that were vandalilzed by less than good citizens, mending leaky roofs and worrying about weak front doors that could be kicked in with barely a puff, and in spite of it all, enjoying our beautiful blooms, watching the zoo of politics, and writing hubs about my life and lessons learned...
I'm exhausted with what wisdom came to visit and went into my pre-birthday dinner with a bit of soberness, but peace.
When my husband asked what I wanted for my birthday. I had no answer. Walking through the week, I pondered and thought. I had most of what I needed, a lot of what I wanted, and though I could always add to the list, I decided not to.
I decided that "gratitude" was more important than "add - i - tude."
A few days later, I turned to Lynn and said "For my birthday, I want to have my cake and eat it, too."
He stared.
Let him figure that one out.
Today, he came back with 2 small chocolate layer cakes and a birthday card to end all. The card I'll keep private, but the cake was for sharing.
We're going to Clearwater to be with 2 of our sons for dinner. I wanted to share the cake, but I knew if I took one, it would either be gobbled up at dinner, or go home with them afterwards.
Either way I'd be out of birthday cake.
So, in keeping with my belief that one CAN have their cake and eat it "two" Lynn proved me right.
We'll leave one cake here, and take one to dinner, thus when I come home, I will have eaten my birthday cake, and have it too.
Ah, a perfect gift. And, I am grateful for lessons past, present, and MAYBE future, but let us not tempt fate.
Tonight, we went out to eat crab legs. Lynn cracked and passed the sweet little white meat to me, I dipped the bites in butter and ate. You can't get mad at a guy that cracks the crab legs and passes over forkfull's of flavor.
Well, I could, I'm sure I could think of SOMETHING, =) but it will wait 'til tomorrow. Or, maybe I'll forget thinking of something to gripe about entirely. I'm in a pretty generous mood for an old lady.
Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to Me. (And you and you and you)
and to all a good night.
I am Marisue, and I write, but not tonight.
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Hi constant, and thank you...why do b-days hit so hard and always catch me by "surprise." I try not to count them...ha geena davis? HMMMM that sounds wonderful!!!
Happy Birthday! - Deb
thannnnk YOUUUUU I'm not counting tho....=)
Marisue, I do hope you have a very happy birthday.
No point in counting. You will only be as old as you act and feel. And the younger you think, the younger you will act and therefore be. Always think young ... and you will be.
Happy Birthday.
Thank you John! After a very stressful week that we made every effort to take lightly, I have nothing planned but picking out our safety door, eating breakfast out, napping...and then eating out with 2 of our 3 sons, 0 we'll meet up with the other one later in the week....just a relaxing day.
I appreciate your well wishes...and I do think young...!! =) stsy active, all that jazz keeps us going...and writing writing writing.
I just found your email, went to spam folder for some reason...about the tomatoes....!! sorry I missed the email. you got lost in cyber space!!!
seems to me you did thing of something to write, and I for one enjoyed it! Happy, Happy Birthday to YOU!
geez...that's supposed to be THINK! not thing. ah well. even spell checker on comments wouldn't have helped :-)
Happy Birthday, Marisue!! Hope it's the greatest EVER! your fan, Pam
dineane, we're all casual here...typos are a frequent occurrence for me and so are misspellings. depends on my speed and mood. LOL thanks for the birthday wishes, birthdays sure as much fun as they used to be haha
Hi Pam...so glad you stopped by and thanks for the b day wish...it IS going to be a good one...in spite of the break ins...we order the safety door in the morning...I'll sleep a bit better. so good to see you both and thanks again!!
Happy birthday Marisue. I like that. "Have your cake and eat it two." Hope both of them were delicious.
Thank you CJ, I like double pleasure...two cakes?? sigh, Im sure going to have to walk a lot. =) Thanks for stopping by, always!
Happy birthday girl! Glad you had a good one. My son was born on July 18--we are going down to Indiana to visit him and his fiance Sunday and see their new home (the are renting a new house together). He's 22 this year. I expect you are about 24? Somewhere in that neighborhood? Contratulations!
HAve a great day July is a great month for birthdays. Happy Birthday. Thanks for the hub
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Marisue ;)
Hi Marisue, this is the start of a new year for you. So, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Thank you pgruncy!! uh...since I have a son that's 31 and 2 that are 21 and 22, guess I'll have to 'fess up and say I'm in my fifty's...but that's all the truth I'm tellin' -- hahaha thanks for the bdaywish!!
Hi Just rodney...Yes, July is the Bomb allright! Are you a cancer too?
Funride, always glad when you POP in!! thanks!!
ciio - yes, a nice new year....I hope regardless of world affairs...we have to have hope...Keep Hope Alive as they say!! thanks for the bday and New year wish!!! =)
Happy Birthday Marisue live your life to the fullist when I turned fifty I said wow I've lived half a century I have three grown children youngest 23 and glad they are grown and moved out they have their own family's and I love them dearly Great Hub Sherylc
Happy Birthday Marisue ... enjoy your day!!!
sheryl c thank you!! birthdays are a little harder than when I was in my 30's haha but, I'm determined to stay young at heart and I exercise more all the time!! here's to a great year for all of us!
thanks 516ads !!! we're rockin' and rollin' here!!
MARISUE keep on rockin and rollin Sherylc
Happy birthday Sis! From the brother who never ran out of chewing gum when it came to fixing nuclear reactor instrumentation panels... just kidding, in case anyone from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reading this.
Thanks Sheryl -- =) it's a life alright!
hi Tom, I thought you'd find that funny -- you could write 1001 uses for bubble gum -- all with the reactors in mind hahaha
shhhh it's top secret tho. LOL
HAPPY BIRTHDY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MARISUE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU......and many moreee. Thank you for a fun hub...G-Ma :o) hugs
THANK you!! just checking hub before my sons get here...we're going out to dinner. check out level1diet on here....he's tom, my brother and he just joined hub pages!!
Happy Birthday Marisue. Watched all your birthday videos. Loved them all but I especially loved the Boom-De-Yada song in your favorite video commercial. I learned and sang that song a kazillion times in the fifth grade. Today I made your recipe 'the cooker cake' or 'The Sexiest Cake I Ever Ate'. What a coincidence that I made this on your birthday. Who Knew! I'm sorry to say it's ALL Gone or I would have saved you a piece. (I owe you one) That was easy to make and oh sooo verrry yummmy! Many other variations to definately try. Well hope you enjoyed your birthday and your dinner out with your family.
Dottie1 how nice of you to tell me all that....would you mind putting your reaction to the cake on that particular hub?? that might encourage others to eat it...isn't it the easiest thing?? I made one with peach pie filling, and peaches in syrup, and white cake mix -- it was yummmy -- also did pineapple pie filling, pineapples in syrup, and also did cherry pie filling and pineapples in sryup we could go on and on here !!! LOL apples are great with spice cake hahahaha I better stop
I LOVE the Boomdeyada...so cheerful...we forget there are so many interesting things in the world. all this gloom and doom...gets us down, and that commercial picks me UP!
What a "sWEET" gift you have given me to do so many of the things you read about in my hubs!! I'm flattered and glad you had a good day!!! =9
Marisue, I almost forgot to tell you that I saw a birthday gift for you at this hub:
http://hubpages.com/hub/They-HUB-Among-Us
And yes I will go to the cake hub and report my yummy findings.
Hey M, HAPPY BIRTHDAY... again. Are you watching Geena Davis movies?
I've got them scheduled for tomoro, kids and home duties took the day...had a great time...and we hung that safety door!!! I'm ready!! but I hope the boogey man never comes! =)
Good for you. You're gonna love those movies, and so will the hubby, if he watches, too.
=) today is a day of work, movies and laundry -- duty calls!! ha oh, and finishing the latch on the safety door!! So Marisue can SLEEP.
A belated HAPPY Birthday to you Marisue!
Carol
Thank you!! It was a great day...and I couldn't find any extra wrinkles, though they do sneak up on you...=)
Happy Birthday! July 19th is also the anniversary of my lovely wife and I.
Hi Chef !!! and Happy Anniversary to you both, glad to know someone else was celebrating on that day!! I'm still celebrating today...deciding to make it a month long birthday. to end all. haha =) best wishes for the future!@
we all need it!
Happy Birthday Marisue... I always get confused with the time difference across the miles and seas. As you eat your cake, may it simply remind you of life's sweetness and the gift of sharing lovely moments with those you love. Best wishes and lots of hugs to you.... take care
-- michelle :)
I had a great day!! all 3 sons called, 2 showed up for dinner with flowers and a beautiful card and a nintendo DS game for MOM! I have no clue how to work it, it's the game on the Carrie Underwood commercial when she's on a bus....anyway they thot it was "me." and i got a safety door installed as well....what a good day!! Thank you so much for your good wishes and comments!! =)
Constant Walker 3 years ago
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, M!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...and I thought of an actress perfect to play your mom: Geena Davis.