While still Wednesday, it is late and,\nfor all intents and purposes, my birthday is over. That\u2019s another one in the\nbooks \u2013 64 of them now \u2013 and while I bemoan the advances of age and the mandatory\nobservation of the passage of another year with the day, it was an extremely nice\none. My daughter and her boyfriend came over, my son and his wife along with my\nthree awesome grandchildren came, and my lovely niece as well. Every Wednesday\nhere is \u201cfamily night\u201d where all that can make it, come over to eat and laugh.\nWe get pizza every other week and on the off-week Teri makes something. So,\nthis week, the graces of the universe smiled on me \u2013 my birthday fell on a Wednesday,\neveryone was able to come over, and it was an off-week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now I think pizza is probably in the\ntop two of all things ever invented \u2013 I simply love pizza. But it was nice to not\nhave to go out to get it tonight. Since it was my birthday, it was my choice\nfor food and I selected Italian grinders. (Note: this is Rhode Island; they are\ngrinders here. Elsewhere, they could be heroes, subs, torpedoes, or hoagies.) We\nget all the ingredients and the fixings, along with chips and the like, and lay\nit all out and let folks build their own sandwich. It was awesome! And of\ncourse cake for dessert!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am always put off when my kids buy\nme something; they are working hard to build their lives and money is often not\nplentiful, so this year I asked them to consider getting me something I would\nnot get for myself: red licorice and peanuts. And they listened!! I sit here munching\non licorice and nuts intermittently while typing \u2013 it is great!! Each are a\nrare treat as they are snacks I just never buy for myself but truly enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And in my last post, I talked about\nTeri\u2019s gift to me \u2013 the digital watch. And I have to say, each hour that goes\nby, it grows a little bit cooler. I mean, it was cool right out of the box, but\nas I begin to discover all it can do, I am really getting hooked. I think I\nmentioned that I had little interest in what my heart-rate is? Well, as I see\nit on the watch, it turns out I am interested in it! And now I am anxious to\nsee how it moves around as I do in the yard, and especially when I get back in\nthe woods hiking. It is also cool to have the news texts pop up on the watch. Even\nthough they start on my phone, and the phone sends them to the watch, with the\nwatch I don\u2019t have to do much of anything other than look at my wrist, as\nopposed to going over and getting the phone to see what just cane through.\nPretty cool. And that is just the tip of the iceberg, It receives call too! I\nhaven\u2019t tried answering one yet, but I will. Of course, since all this is via\nBluetooth the phone has to be close to me for it all to get to the watch, so it\ndoesn\u2019t replace the phone, but it surely supplements it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I entered the day unhappy at adding\nanother higher number to my age, and I am exiting the day smiling and content\nafter having basked in the joy of my greatest accomplishment of my time on earth:\nmy family. Perspective dear reader, perspective. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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