Happy Birthday to ME!!

Yesterday, April 21^st was my birthday or as my brother called it “Happy Heinz”.  If you think about it you’ll know how old I am.  J 

The day started off as usual with me waking up then going into the office to turn on my computer.  There I found 2 envelopes. There was a beautiful card from Ron and a very cute card from Bailey.  Inside Bailey’s card were 3 scratch lottery tickets (of which I won!).  Ron brought me my morning coffee then he left to meet his Ham Radio buddies for breakfast.  He usually goes for breakfast with them on Sunday’s.  Now most of you would wonder why I didn’t go out for breakfast with him since it was my birthday.  Well, I looked at it as … the day is going to start off with me having my own space.  How perfect was that!  J

When Ron returned home he came into the office, took me by the hand and said “come with me”.  I instantly began to get nervous.  I knew he was up to something.  He said “I know I’m not supposed to spend any money but I couldn’t let your birthday go by without doing something.  So I thought you might like this to go with your morning coffee.”  He then opened the front doors.  I stepped out and saw an adirondack chair!  I’ve always pictured myself sitting on the front porch in one overlooking the view but never thought we would get one.  I was speechless.  He had gone to the breakfast and then went to pick it up.  One of the Hams makes them as a side business and Ron had talked to him about it weeks before.  All we have to do is paint it or stain it to whatever color we want.  We are going to stain it to match the wood from inside the house.

I was very surprised as to how comfortable the chair was.  We had tried sitting in some plastic ones at Canadian Tire but I found them to be too uncomfortable.  I’m a short person and I found that it was very difficult for me to get out of the chair.  Also the back of the chair seemed to be too far back and I always felt that I had to lean my head forward to have a conversation making my neck hurt.  The gentleman who made this chair brings the back a little more forward and the legs a little shorter so it’s easier getting out of it.  He also cuts out 2 half moons out of the bottom board so the back of your legs aren’t pressing against anything.  The chair fit me like a glove.  It was so comfortable.  I’m sure I will be enjoying many a morning coffee while looking out over the water. J

I spent the rest of the day doing what most people say they “wished” they could do for their birthday.  I did NOTHING!  That’s right … nothing!  No work, no laundry, no cleaning the house, nothing.  I received several phone calls during the day from all of my children, my family from BC and also my family in Europe.  I had many many well wishers on Facebook as well.  Thank you all for that.  It was so nice to be remembered.  J

As for my activities for the day … remember I had none.  The only thing I did all day long was catch up on the 50^th Anniversary Marathon of General Hospital … which is the soap opera I watch.  The show has been running for 50 years and to celebrate they ran the 50 best episodes from those years, starting with the very first episode of General Hospital.  I didn’t get to watch it or tape it when it originally aired at the end of March but through the magic of internet and You Tube I was able to see it now.  Throughout the day Ron would check on me to see if I needed anything.  He would bring me food and water while I continued to see episodes I’d never seen before.  I was a happy camper!  It was truly the best birthday ever!!  J

My new chair for the front porch.  I love it!!