The Year of......Me

I have a friend whose birthday is in October and instead of celebrating just her birthday - she celebrates the whole month and calls it Kelly-tober.  Thinking along those lines I decided a couple of days ago that 2011 will be "The Year of Me" and I don't mean that in an egotistical way at all.  Let's look at the facts, I'll be turning 50 in October (Lord willing as Pastor Daggs says) and that's really something.  There are many people that their life was cut way too short that never got to see their 50th birthday.  And since 2010 was not a "great" year for me, I'm going to enjoy every day of this year and not be shy is saying this year is "all about me".  And all of my friends that are turning 50 too :)

Each day we wake up is a blessing.  People used to ask Mike how he was feeling and he'd have one of two answers for them:

1. I'm upright and taking nourishment ~ or
2. I'm breathing and that's better than the alternative

I've always been interested in celebrities that were born in '61 and there are some pretty ok people that are turning 50 this year and don't look too bad for their age.  Remember - 50 is the new 30!  To name just a few:

• George Clooney
• Dennis Rodman - THE greatest defensive player to have played NBA basketball
• Dan Marino
• Steve Young

Actually Dan M, Steve Y and I were all born within the same week.

Butler and Speedo Day 2 was interesting and if you aren't on Facebook you don't know the latest.  Came home, Speedo still on but blood all over the kitchen and living room floor.  Some how he had caught a nail on one of his back paws on something and bled all over.  It looked like a mini crime scene so instead of cleaning up pee, I got to clean up blood spatter (such a technical CSI term :) and once again my floors are clean and the Speedo got washed tonight.

I forgot to mention two things yesterday.  Duane, a friend from the City of WDM that had helped check the snow blower out a month or so ago emailed me to see how things were going and if the snow blower was working ok.  I thought that was very nice of him to do.  He and Mike got along really well.

The other is that my manager has evidently decided that Ogi (my crib mate) and I need new names because he sent an email to the leadership group (the managers of our area plus Ogi and me) and Ogi has become Obi and I have become Rona instead of Roni.  Obi....I mean Ogi and I meet with Zach on a daily basis to go over our inventory numbers so later the day Zach had sent that email I said something to Ogi and I go "right Obi?" and he replies, "right Rona."  Zach got to chuckling and admitted he had no clue what happened for him to type our names wrong.  And I guess one day he was referring to one of us in a conversation but morphed our two names together........

And how lazy can I get?  I downloaded Pandora to my Droid phone and decided to listen to it tonight while blogging.  My clock radio is less than an arm's length from me and I could turn it on - but no - it's so much easier to use my Droid......