It's a Special Day

7C’s in January!

 

So, in case you hadn’t noticed, today is my birthday, and I’m as old as a deck of cards, or the number of weeks in a year. I’ve been alive so long that if I’d been born on day 1, both the 260 day and the 365 day Mesoamerican calendars have had time to synchronize and would both be starting again at day 1. But since I thought I was 52 all last year, I don’t feel any older.

I had a big day planned, too. It started at 6:55 with my BodyFit class, and I was pleased to have two new people there. Also it was day 2, which is a good day for old people as the cycles seem very short. After class I went home and had oatmeal (with celebratory chocolate chips) and did some straightening around the house and some packing. Then it was time to be off to Nia, which is kind of like having a birthday party all the time, but I had no idea how awesome it was going to be. Tripti was leading, and she had made a whole routine just for me with three birthday songs and the Pata Pata song by Miriam Makeba. Plus, many people – Kriszti, Fred, Liz, Kay Nell , Charles (not the Charles who is usually there and was today, but the other Charles). We danced like crazy, and then Fred and Kriszti and I went for Thai food for lunch.

After lunch it was time to head home and finish getting packed, which I did except for my bathrobe and the sissy firestarters. The firestarters are easy, but the bathrobe is a bummer. Dave got home about 2 and we finished packing and headed to the coast. Faithful readers will know that we’ve been coming here every summer for 21 years, and last year the rental agent & owners offered us a free weekend as a thank you.  What a great way to spend the weekend of our 25^th anniversary and my birthday!  We picked up the keys and got to the house just before sunset, and a miracle happened – although there was a little local fog, the horizon was clear all the way down and we got to see a green flash! Even I had to admit it was a green flash.

Meanwhile, the day would continue to get better, because while we were driving to the coast Ben & Joan were landing in Portland! Since Ben is even more exercise mad than I am, they needed to stop and pick up a bike for him to ride while he’s here (what’s wrong with beach bikes?). So we got unpacked and settled in, and generally slowed ourselves. Two things:  when it is only two of us for a couple days we can fit everything in Dave’s car and 2) When we first started coming here, it would take Dave a day or two to relax into vacation mode. It now takes about a minute. Or less.

After we hung out for a while doing good relaxing, Ben and Joan called from the 101/26 junction. We met them at Bill’s and had a very nice hamburger dinner. Mostly the best thing about it was all the laughing, which we continued at the house. It is an amazingly clear night, maybe the clearest we’ve seen in years. Dave and Joan spent quite some time on the deck looking at the stars and pointing at things. Ben and I stayed in the house where it was warm and we could sit down. We’ve seen all those stars before anyway. And we’re exhausted from all of our working out.

It’s supposed to be another clear, cold day tomorrow.  Stay tuned.