Thursday, September 12, 2013

I'm seventy one. Geez, Louise.

Yesterday, I turned seventy-one.  Hoopty doo.  The amazing thing is I don't look a day over seventy.  I'm such a babe.  White hair.  Turkey neck.  Liver spots.  Cankles.  Aphasic.

My sisters gave me adult diapers and a red blanket to replace the one I left at the side of the road in Parley's Canyon.  If you find it, don't look inside.

Tom made me waffles topped with peaches and whipped cream for breakfast in bed and a cup of flowers.

Rian came down and ate lunch with us in Soda Row.  We snickered our way through it.  The three of us went to Barnes and Nobles where I bought a stack of birthday books.  Rian looked for poetry books.  Barnes and Nobles has a woeful collection of poetry--like a shelf in the ladies' room.

We went to art class where I realized that I was beginning to like water coloring.  It's been almost two years, and I'm just beginning to understand the paint.  This is so satisfying.

Five year old Louis was on the message machine singing me Happy Birthday.  I'd like to bottle that voice.

A good birthday. Almost forgot I was hurtling toward death.  Almost.




13 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday Louise. Hurtling toward death is better sounds way more interesting than disappearing into death.

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  2. Your almost-daily posts are a breath of fresh air. Makes me (almost) want to sign up for an art class if it will take only a couple of years to understand the paint--until I take note of the fact that you are already an accomplished artist.

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  3. Happy Belated Birthday! Your sisters crack me up ..

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  4. Happy happy day!!! ' don't look a day over 70'- you are fabulous!

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  5. You are not hurtling alone. Glad your day was fabulous! (74 1/2 and still kickin'!)

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  6. Happy Happy Birthday!

    (You're so funny!!)

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  7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCjziKaE0dc

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  8. I hope I'm as fun (and funny) as you when I turn 71. Happy birthday

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  9. Happy, happy, happy to my fabulous friend!
    xoxo

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  10. Happy Birthday, sounds like a wonderful day and the best place to find poetry books is used at library book sales they often have wonderful inscriptions in the cover.

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  11. Happy, happy birthday, Louise, dear!

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  12. This post reminds me why I love and admire you. Happy Belated Birthday.

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