Thirsday’s Thirteen on Friday - A.K.A. Happy Birthday To Me and 13 Things You Couldn’t Care Less About.
1.) 39 years ago today, very nearly to the hour as well, my mother became a mother for the first time. I wonder if she was as awestruck as I was on MY first day…
2.) 39 years ago, these shoulders that crack when I put on my t-shirt and all my OTHER parts were brand.spankin’.NEW.
3.) 39 years ago, I didn’t have a care in the world. It was all someone else’s problem. I did not value that properly.
4.) 39 years ago my husband’s wife was born and he was ALREADY out of line…
5.) 39 years ago I was in PERFECT health, not a mar on my body, nor even a stretchmark.
6.) 39 years ago there weren’t blogs nor personal computers to write out blogs. Heck there wasn’t even an internet yet.
7.) 39 years ago Billie Gentry sang Ode to Billie Joe. I still wonder where the heck the Tallahachee Bridge is…
8.) 39 years ago I entered the world so I could share the day with J.R.R. Tolkien, significantly OLDER than I am but we share a birthday - hey great minds and all…
9.) 39 year ago I entered the world on a very SPECIAL day - today night and day are of equal length. Thus began the reign of OCD in MY life…
10.) 39 years ago Faith Hill and Tyler Stewart (Barenaked Ladies) decided to join the world so they could share MY birthday.
11.) 39 years ago the average new car cost $2,425, gas was $0.33/gal, a new home was $24,600 (give or take), the average annual income was $8,801/yr, and minimum wage was $1.40/hr.
12.) 39 years ago, once again seeking to begin an illustrious relationship with the OCD fairy I was born when there were EXACTLY 100 days left in the year.
13.) 39 years ago today…this also converts to:
2035 weeks (rounded down)
14,246 days
341,904 hours
20,514,240 minutes
or
1,230,854,400 seconds
We celebrate my birthday AND the anniversary of OCD’s newest member of the club…oh and my husband says he can feel every moment of the last 5,493,600 minutes.
Happy Birthday To Me and to all the other September 22 people out there. And on a rather disturbed note…we ALL know what our parents were doing on the Christmas PRIOR to this day *raises eyebrow*
I wonder if my mother got pine needles stuck to her butt…
