My birthday goes on at least for a week. I'm blessed to have a lot of friends that want to contact and fete me to dinners, lunches and give me gifts.
Thursday nights dinner was fun with the girls and it turned into a four and a half hour affair. People, especially men, wonder what we girls talk about for that long. There is never a lull in the conversation and there is always a lot of laughter.
The next day my two good girlfriends took me to the Balboa Bay Club for lunch. One of them gave me the most ginormous sun hat with a beach cover up to match. The other a Visa gift certificate to spend as I like. With these plus the ones I received from the girls the night before I made quite a haul. The girls are always so generous with gifts, dinners and lunches. I'm lucky to have them all in my life for so many years.
I'm edging closer to my knee surgery. I'm hoping the third time is a charm. Same knee, same pain, big pain! I'm getting anxious about it and just want it over, this will be through the Christmas holidays and I will be incapacitated during those dates for at least six weeks. Christmas was never my favorite holiday, I always preferred Easter....maybe it was the new outfit you got in the Spring. I always found Christmas to be sad time with people trying to hard to have fun. New Year's Eve is right along Christmas for a crummy holiday.
There are other things going on in my life that I won't go into but suffice it to say when all is over I can breath again. It is always the unknown that keeps you awake at night. One can conjure up all kind of scenarios that are usually worse then the actuality, although this one is pretty bad and self induced. One would think at my age I'd be smarter, but no!
Life is a learning lesson and if one doesn't learn from your experiences you are a lost cause, no matter how old you are. I"m hoping I've learn a life lesson this time. I seem to have skated for years without consequences and now it is time to pay the piper, one way or the other. As Oprah says, "we all have the power to change ourselves." I need to remember that.
Veteran man made a fast phone call to me yesterday. He is still on the East coast but said he wanted to touch base. He is flying home to night and said he would call me when he got back into Orange County tonight. He really has been keeping in touch a lot. Maybe I'll get smart and gravitate towards him and finally say goodbye to Desi, who is a lost cause when it comes to longevity in a relationship. Unfortunately it is all about the chemistry and Desi and I do have that, at least for the time being. Guess I'll have to start getting over that one. I know things with Desi will never be normal, whatever that is, he has way too much on his plate.
The one thing that is a plus about being by yourself is that you don't have to answer to anyone or take care of anyone else. After years of doing just that I should be happy that I don't have to anymore. It is always a process to adjust to life's changes.
Tomorrow my neighbor is taking me out for an early dinner for my birthday. That should be the end of the celebrating for another year.
Off to do some work around the house.
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