April 1, 2012
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It’s A Wonderful Life
I had a wonderful 80th birthday. Daughter Val and Sparky may have found their 700th geocache, but I reached the age 80 years….or 960 months…..or 29,200 days! That’s a helluva lot of living done so far! My friends had a surprise luncheon party for me at Johnny Carino’s….14 or so there with the helium balloons and cards and gifts and also received a nice kiss from a handsome dentist who just happened to be at the same restaurant. Okay, he sits back of me in our church choir and was there with his beautiful wife….but the kiss and hug were a nice surprise anyway. I’m blessed to have such wonderful loving friends. I also received a pound box of my favorite Lowery’s dark chocolate maple creams and peanut clusters from “cousin inlaw” Julia. (We’re not related but share cousins…..it’s complicated.)
I got to visit via phone with my three beautiful daughters and also my U of GA granddaughter who is in North Carolina to present a paper before the National Society of Geologists or something like that. She is one smart cookie who loves rocks just like her grandma….except she knows so much more about them. We give rocks to one another as gifts. She’ll get the giant halved geode gracing my fireplace hearth someday……heavy stuff…..to go with the big chunk of rose quartz I gave her years ago.
Earlier, before my friend Betty picked me up for dinner (I thought it was going to be
just the 2 of us), the florist delivered two gorgeous baskets of plants. Later, my neighbor boys, Oliver and Rob, brought me over some cheesecake, greetings and hugs; and we shared some Irish Mist whisky….but before that, cousin inlaw and I were given tickets to attend the Muncie Symphony’s Saturday Nights program which was Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in a minor (heavy demanding difficult Russian music) and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, which was originally named Eroica and written for Napoleon, the hero who liberated France from its monarchy, but Ludwig got pissed off at Napoleon Bonaparte when he named himself Emperor and so Ludwig renamed his symphony. Anyway, it was a glorious way to spend the first day of being 80 years old….can’t believe I’m that old!Tomorrow I’ll have dinner out after church and then attend our local university’s matinee performance of the musical comedy, “Lend Me A Tenor” with my friends Jane and John. And this will be just the start of a very busy week! Life is good. God is good and I am blessed.
Comments (11)
Happy Birthday – again! Sounds like you are having a blast! Enjoy!!
Happy Birthday!!!!
I am sorry to be a day late. 80 that is so awesome really. I wish you another 80 years of vibrancy.
A belated happy birthday to you! Here’s to another several decades of full living!
Gosh, Joyce, I wish I had known. I wish you a very healthy and happy birthday, even though it is almost two weeks too late. How good that you had such a grand day. The whole post was full of smiles. Being eighty is a wonderful thing. Look at all the accomplishments your children and grandchildern have done. How many grandparents can boast of that? You are indeed blessed.
Congratulations on this spectacular milestone of your life!
I’m so sorry I missed this post, Joyce. A happy belated birthday to you. You had quite a celebration no doubt with many years of bliss behind it. Congratulations to you on this great milestone.
@zionlover - That’s okay, Norman. Thanks for the belated greetings. I hope you have a great 80th birthday someday too…..but I won’t be around for it so consider this your FIRST and earliest 80th Happy Birthday greeting, ha!
@ZSA_MD - Thanks …. never too late when you get this old, Zakiah! I appreciate your visit and comments and agree it’s so good to have such a great family and so many friends! I will post the photo of my party after reading all these greetings. It was a lot of fun and such a surprise too. I hope you and ALLmy Xanga friends will have an 80th birthday celebration themselves with as much fun and love as I had on mine!
@Gma_Joyce - Ha. Thank you, Joyce. If I do live to be 80, I hope to inherit all your wit and charm too.
Hi, It’s nice to meet you. I came here from your daughter’s site. I read your comment about the dress. I can’t believe you’re 80! You don’t look it. Glad you had a good birthday. I’m 74. I don’t live too far from you or at least from your daughter or from Saintvi. But I haven’t met either of them in person yet. I’ve told them they need to come down here geocaching. Maybe this summer they will?
@ata_grandma - Hello….nice meeting you. As far as not looking 80, thanks, but you haven’t seen me naked, ha! It would be nice to have a little Xanga reunion for people living near one another. Valerie and I went to one Zakiah had at her home in Quincy, IL…. so very nice and lots of fun. I don’t write as often as my daughter does but talk a lot to make up for it…..and keep very busy for now. Thanks for the visit. I have stopped by at all of her Xanga friends’ blogs but don’t always leave messages.