I ate ice cream for breakfast, donut(s) at work on Monday, chips for lunch (and dinner), and it got worse. You are probably thinking I’m eating crazy because of all the long hours I am putting in at work. Actually, my birthday is coming up and I’m entitled. However, I may be in trouble soon. I may soon only be able to wear stretchy clothes, and I don’t know that stretchy qualifies as business casual.
Today my friends stuffed me with a lunch out. It was a treat to see daylight. I’d been inside all day conducting a full day’s worth of training.
“How old are you tomorrow?” one of them asked.
“Sixty four,” I replied. That sounded old. “Doesn’t that sound old?” I asked. When I’d told my six-year-old granddaughter, she’d said, “Wow, Grandma, that’s a really big number.”
“Not really much older than sixty-three sounded,” Janice said. We laughed. I tried to name a few people older than I am. I couldn’t. I found out even the guy who looks really old is younger than me.
At the end of the meal I was presented with chocolate brownie. “Make a wish,” instructed the waitress, “and blow out the candle.”
“I wish this wasn’t chocolate,” I said, with a little smile, putting out the small fire.
“Oh, you don’t like chocolate?” I nodded. “How about some bread pudding?”
Now were talking. That sounded a lot lighter… not. What’s not to like — carbs in butter fat. It’ll sit well with the salty corn chips I have back at the office.
“How much do I owe you?” I asked my friends politely.
“Nothing. It’s your birthday,” my friends said in unison.
“In that case, it’s my birthday next week, too.”
P.S. Janice gave me a beautiful scarf, and instructed me to use a “blindfold on execution day.” She knows how hard I’ve been working on the firm software rollout. She also knows I am on the front line and will be blamed if things don’t go well. As I walked in to resume training, I pulled the new scarf tight around my head like a blindfold. Now I’m prepared. Thanks, ladies.
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Happy Birthday Penny! I hope today is a truly wonderful day and the start of an amazing year.
HBD
I hope you know the grief you just caused me. I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out what HBD meant!
Happy Birthday, Penny. Marilyn was in the office yesterday and had only glowing things to say about you!
Happy, HAPPY birthday (tho a day late, it seems)! I hope it was a fantastic day! Sounds like you have great friends who made it exactly that!
I hope you had a great one!
Happy birthday from a MUCH younger friend. I won’t be 64 until August.