Happy Birthday To Me!

Yes, I'm afraid it's true. Today, October 23rd, is my 45th birthday.

I want to thank everyone who has wished me a happy birthday by email, ecards and comments on MY MYSPACE PAGE and on MY FACEBOOK SITE.

I also want to thank my daughter, JESSICA and my dear friend CAROLE @ PEA'S CORNER for their birthday wishes for me, and for linking to my blog. Many of our mutual blogging buddies have left me birthday greetings because of JESSICA'S and PEA'S links from their blogs to mine.

Thanks also to all of my family that have given me cards and other gifts. I love you all more than I can express.

Please forgive me if I failed to acknowledge your email, ecard or other birthday greeting. I truly appreciated every birthday wish from all of you, dear family and friends. :-)

THANK YOU again for all your birthday wishes!

I appreciate them more than I can ever express.

Y'all are truly the BEST!!Some of you mentioned that I must be busy celebrating my birthday by partying, eating cake and ice cream and such as that.

Well.

Let me tell you how my day has gone so far.

I slept late and got up late. I came into the living room and read my email and checked my Bloglines and read and commented on some blogs. I answered emails and comments on my Facebook and MySpace, and chatted a bit with Jessica on Yahoo Messenger, then took a shower.

Lamar had tried to surprise me by taking me out for supper tonight, but his plans fell through at the last minute, so he ended up having one of our neighbors take him to our one and only local burger joint to get pork barbecue sandwiches (with slaw!) and vanilla soft serve ice cream for our supper tonight.

Hey, it was good and I didn't have to cook it. Works for me!

So that's been my day so far. And it's been good. I didn't expect a cake and all that jazz and I don't really need it anyway. My sugar has actually been bordering on low today so the ice cream I had should set just fine.Some lifelong friends of mine have an anniversary and she has a birthday all within this next week. Several years ago Lamar and I started a tradition of taking a day trip with them into the Ozark Mountains every year sometime during the last 2 weeks of October to celebrate our anniversaries and birthdays.

Oh, did I mention that Saturday, October 25th is my and Lamar's 23rd wedding anniversary?

We never really have a specific destination. We just enjoy getting out of the house and seeing the Fall foliage. I've heard that the colors are really vivid and pretty this year, and I'm looking forward to our day out with our friends.

We either eat in Jonesboro before we leave, as we're planning to do this time, or just stop where ever our fancy takes us whenever we all get hungry. I think this time we're going to eat catfish at a buffet in Jonesboro and leave from there.

I'm hoping for good weather so I can get hopefully get some good pictures of the Fall colors and scenery. There's a 10% chance of rain for Monday, but I'm gonna look on the positive side. That's a 90% chance that it won't rain, right?Speaking of weather, it's rained most of the day here and turned sharply colder. Have I mentioned how much I love Fall and Winter?

It's not quite 8:30 pm local time and it's 46F-7C. The highs for the next several days are supposed to be in the 50'sF and the lows are forecast to hit the lower 30's-0C by Sunday morning.

I dearly love these crisp Fall days and nights. Jessica and Jason took Emmy to Le Bonheur's Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on Tuesday to see a pediatric gastroenterologist. He didn't really tell them anything new during the office visit, but Emmy has some tests scheduled for November 5th.

Jessica explained it all HERE on her blog much better than I could, so if you haven't already read Jessica's post, you can get the update about Emmy HERE.I think that will do it for tonight. Maybe I'll get a new post done on Friday, but don't hold your breath. You might turn blue or even expire.

Y'all have a great Friday and weekend!

PS: If you've already wished me a happy birthday, feel free to skip commenting on this post.

For that matter, you should never feel obligated to comment on my posts. I dearly love hearing what you have to say though.... :-)