Loose Leaf Notes

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