Musings from the Birthday Girl

January brings not only a new year, but also another birthday for yours truly. When I was young, this was cause for great excitement. I never minded being the recipient of more presents so close on the heels of Christmas, quite the contrary! However, with age has come less and less enthusiasm for adding yet another year. I've tried to fight it a bit--if you were to check my MySpace, you would find that I've managed to stay "29" even with the passing of another twelve months. I've been a good customer for BeautyControl and often wear my special bronzer that claims to "deflect light away from wrinkles". Even so, it's pictures like these that remind me time's a marching on no matter what my MySpace says. Normally I would be way too vain to post a picture like this since neither the hair, nor the camera angles, not to mention the lack of make-up, wrinkle deflecting or otherwise, were cooperating in my favor. But the joy of posting the youthful face on the right outweighed my vanity. The girls had made me a birthday dinner and Scott was trying to get a shot of me with the cooks. Johnny was anxious to add his own handsome face to the picture. Since he worked so hard to stretch himself into the photo, I thought it would be a shame not to share it. Here's lookin' at you kid!