by Richard

Jimmy Buffet had it right when he talked about another trip around the sun, another year. He said something to the effect that “you” have lines where all the smiles have been. What I think he’s saying is that we get older, the lucky few will age into their bodies, mature in their personalities like a fine limburger cheese. Well, perhaps that last analogy isn’t quite what I was going for, but I think you get my point.

All of which is a roundabout way of saying happy birthday to my wife, known to us all as She Who Must Blow Out The Candles. Although we’re all sort of worried about that last bit, considering H1N1 and all that. Maybe we can get her to blow through a surgical mask or something.

Anyway, we’re celebrating her most recent trip around the sun today. It was *ahem* mumblemumblemumble years ago today that she was born way up there in Iowa City, which is in, oddly enough, Iowa.

The little dudes are especially thankful for her birthday, considering that without her birthday they wouldn’t be here.

The present with which I think she’s going to be most happy is that I’m going to try and shelve my annual joke. See, we’re the same age and my birthday comes along a week from today. Now, normally I’ll spend the week talking about my old lady, robbing the cradle, stuff like that. Because, after all, for a week, she’s a year older than I am. It’s an evergreen joke. It never gets, um, old. Well at least for me. She hates it. Hence the present.

One of her other presents this year is that I’m going to get dressed up and go to a dinner and a show. I can’t wait to see the look on her face when I show her the outfit and then drive away to pick up my date. No, just kidding. Of course. We’re going to see South Pacific, the Tony-award-winning Broadway touring revival, despite the fact that my record at musicals is pretty dismal. I think in all the musicals I’ve been at, I’ve fallen asleep in every single one. Well, except for Monty Python’s Spamalot and then only because I was singing along.

So, wish me luck and wish her a happy birthday.

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