23 August
Right now, it's Wednesday night, and it's the one minute countdown to my birthday!
10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - Happy 37th birthday!
I went and looked at myself in the mirror to see if I looked any different, any older.
Hmmm, not really. I have these small lines around my eyes, and these grooves next to my mouth that I have had since my mid-twenties, but other than that, I have relatively unlined skin. Good genes, thanks Mom.
One thing that happens when you age, though, and I tell you this so you have some warning like I didn't, is that no matter how fair you are, how blonde you are, how you don't have to shave your legs that often, how you have never plucked even a hair out of your eyebrows and it never crossed your mind to do so, comes a time when you have to spend a serious amount of energy plucking hair out of your chin.
If I hadn't paid the attention that I have to this problem over the past two years, I'd have a beard like ZZ Top now.
But besides the fact that my body has decided that Bearded Lady is the look it is going for, I don't think the fact that I am hurtling towards 40 so fast that I can feel the wind in my hair is that apparent on the face that I show the world.
Either that, or I am 37 and this is what 37 looks like.
I told everyone that if I didn't update on my birthday, it would only be because I was dead, and here am I, finishing this entry a couple of days later! I guess I must be dead then, Gee, the afterlife sure looks alot like New Jersey.
I guess it's like that Ray Bradbury story (that my father did the radio play of, by the by), "Mars is Heaven," but ol' Ray got it wrong. Really, it's "Weehawken is Heaven." Go figure.
Today's
horoscope:
Your mind is sharp today, yet also precise. Plan to accomplish problem-solving that requires both speed and exactitude.
One year ago today:
How the hell did I manage to become 36?
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