Make 13 Wishes
1. “Don’t blow your wish, blow out the candle and make one,” I said to Joe on his birthday.
2. What do you get for a man who doesn’t want cake and says, “Instead of cake, I’m more of a venison steak man?”
3. In the thirty years Joe and I have been together, I’ve forgotten his birthday once. I’m so nervous about forgetting again that I’ve become hyper-vigilant about it. This year I was sure it was on Sunday and told everybody it was, but then I was told by a friend who was also born on December 3rd that it was Monday.
4. The Necessity of Appearing in Your Own Face – There are days when that is the last place / in the world where you want to be but you / have to be there, like a movie, because it / features you – Richard Brautigan
5. Richard Brautigan, who was aptly described by one reviewer as a cross between George Carlin and Pablo Neruda, was a foundational poet for me.
6. I found a great site that has Brautigan reading his own poems HERE.
7. And THIS is a site counter by a Toronto Star newspaper writer that keeps track of all Trump’s lies, the number, the content and the counter fact, last updated on December 1st at 3,924.
8. As for me, I always want cake. But I have to tell Joe, “just one!” because he has been known to get me two.
9. I like having a husband who will put on a silly hat.
10. He also will dance with me. We danced to reggae Saturday night at Dogtown Roadhouse. One of the Bob Marley songs the band played had the line “who the cap fit / Let them wear it, so when I gave Joe a birthday card with a party hat it in, I wrote those words on the envelope.
11. Look what happens when my answering machine message says, “Leave your three wishes after the magical beep” HERE.
12. “When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.” — Winston Churchill
13. The answer to #1 is an omelette with spinach, feta, tomatoes, olive tapenade and a slice of bacon.
_______________Thirteen Thursday
December 6th, 2018 4:52 am
I am loving Nayyirah Waheed poetry this week
December 6th, 2018 3:19 pm
You and your Joe are creative, imaginative people. I love it! I love your phone message. I may just copy-cat you. We get a lot of telemarketers, I wonder if they’ll leave a message. lol
December 6th, 2018 4:32 pm
I always want cake, too. Poor #45 sure does lie a great deal. Must be something wrong in that super genius brain that causes that.
December 6th, 2018 11:04 pm
Thank you, CR for bringing me back to my Brautigan. I just pulled most of his stuff off my shelf, vowed to re-read.
December 6th, 2018 11:34 pm
I love # 12! Remember years ago, you asked me how old you were & you were only 29?!?
December 7th, 2018 6:04 am
Did your mom put a scoop of ice cream on your slice of birthday cake or was this a southern thing? Hope Joe enjoyed his special day. He looks so different to me if that is a photo of him! I would not have recognized the photo.
December 7th, 2018 11:13 am
Ice cream, yes. Joe is a chameleon and can look different from one picture to the next.
December 8th, 2018 1:55 am
That looks like so much fun! I love arts and crafts fairs and shows.
December 9th, 2018 3:36 pm
#12 is true. Unless you are the mother of the person turning 60…. The birthday breakfast looks like a perfect celebration.