March 11, 2005
65.
I've got my Medicare card, but it still doesn't seem possible. How could I be that old? I watch some middle-aged couple demonstrating basic ballroom steps on my public TV station and think how much I loved dancing and how much I'd like to get back into that someday.
Someday? How many days for ballroom dancing do I think I have left? And first, I'd have to drop the 20 pounds I put on over the past three years of taking care of my mother and turning to tasty food as my one consistent sensual comfort.
I went out yesterday and had lunch with a couple whom I've known snce college, but, as my mom continues to slip away, I'll have even fewer opportunities than I have now to indulge is freedom and comfort. I have to believe, however, that I will have another life to create for myself when she's no longer around. She's already 89. Chances are that I'll live to at least that age. Hell, Chita Rivera is in her seventies and still going strong on the dance floor. Well, I'd still have to lose at least those 20 extra pounds.
On every birthday since I started blogging in 2002,I've posted a photo of myself. I started blogging about the same time my mother began to become more dependent on me. She changed. I changed.
So, I was born on March 11, 1940 at 3:42 a.m. My early birthdays were big parties with lots of friends and relatives. We were a part of a large extended family. Yesterday, my mother unearthed this photo from my seventh birthday:
There will be no party for me today. I'll take my 92 year old neighbor on our usual Friday grocery run. Maybe I'll rent a video. Pick up some kind of special dessert.
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Old Comments (8)
maria on 11 Mar 2005
Happy Birthday, Elaine ... and thanks for sharing these pictures!
Tamar on 11 Mar 2005
Hey! Happy, Happy Day! You look absolutely smashing!
Melissa on 11 Mar 2005
Here's my public woo-hoo! on your b-day. And your grandson says..."Happy Birfday Grammy!"
myrln on 11 Mar 2005
A Happy Birthday to...ready?...the LILY MAID OF ASTOLAT! Another to add to your title page...one you'd forgotten. All the best.
Terry on 11 Mar 2005
Happy birthday! And thank you for all the pleasure you've given me with your writing. I look forward to your updates.
Stu Savory on 12 Mar 2005
Belated best wishes Elaine,
65 eh? Now Granny Weatherwax had better watch out!
SB on 12 Mar 2005
May you enjoy this day and the ones ahead of you!
Kate S. on 13 Mar 2005
Look at all the love! How awesome is that? (We should be so lucky! Ha!)
Uh ... The Lily Maid of Astolat?
I smell a story...