Whoa! I thought 57 was a bad, bad age, then I wake up after a night of tossin'n'turnin, can hardly get out of bed because of the pain in my lower back and say to myself, well if this is what 58 is going to be like, I don't care for it.
After finally getting up, around 9ish (sorry to all you workers that have to get up early and/or you parents that have little ones that like to rise & shine early so you can't sleep in) Jerry fixes coffee. When I go in to start breakfast he is hugging me. When I put my arms around him I feel something strange on his back. It is a card he is hiding in the top of his sweat pants, LOL. I pull it out & ask if I was suppose to find it. He said well not yet, but it is okay. I put it aside because I have no intention of opening anything until 5:30pm. I have decided they did not follow day light savings time back in 1949 so that means instead of 4:30pm which I have been letting be the official "time" it is now 5:30pm because I have not thought of the DST thingy before now.
So now Jerry does his paperwork while I start to fix breakfast. We have our usual, biscuit & gravy. He has sausage (which he fixes), I have bacon. He has 2 fried eyes, I have one. That would be eggs not eyes. I know I could have deleted that & no one but me would be any the wiser but thought you all might get a kick out of my error. I got a good laugh when I read it. Anyway, we take our plates to the "hot room". Jamison renamed the sunroom & I thought it was cute so .... Anyway, we have a nice leisurely breakfast which means we are through in 5 to 8 minutes. Five for Jerry, eight for me, give or take a min. or two. Jerry decides we should go on to the store before it gets too crowded so when we finish eating we get ready for the trek to Walmart.
We drive down to check on the progress on the boat. *deep sigh* A little has been done but "because of all the rain we have been having" they didn't get as far as intended. Uh huh, it has rained this entire week, non-stop. Yeah right!!! We had a shower maybe 2 days this past week. It should be in the water by next week. Gee, how many weeks have we heard that??? I mean after all the boat has been there for over 11 months now.
To Walmart we go. (I get my first phone call of the morning. It is Earl calling to wish me a "happy" and of course to rub it in a little too. Just like I did to him). Man, everything is so expensive. It costs a fortune to shave these days. Razor blades are ridiculous. (Linda calls & sings Happy Bd to me & we talk some then she says for me to call her when I get home if I have a chance). My Purity fat-free cottage cheese has gone up to over $3.50 a carton, Kraft American Deli Deluxe singles are now over $4. Jerry says he heard on the radio something about corn going to make milk & milk products all go up. Well, they aren't going up, they have gone. Every time we go to the grocery the cottage cheese is a little higher & it never fails, if I buy it at Walmart, Kroger will have it cheaper but if I don't get it...well, you know, Murphy's Law. We stop by Kroger & pick up a few things then come home.
Lee had called so I return his call & we talk for about an hour. He says he just called to wish me a happy birthday. It is great getting to talk to him for a while. It doesn't happen often enough for me but I know he is busy. After I get off the phone with Lee, I return Linda's call. We talk a while, then Lara calls. Actually, Jamison & Joleena respond to my hello by singing Happy Birthday to me. It is so sweet. I so wish I had it on tape so I can play it over & over. Lara & I get to catch up for a few minutes but she has to go take care of those precious grandchildren of mine.
Jerry is mowing & trimming the lawn all the time I am spending on the phone. He has just been in a few minutes & is getting ready to take his shower when there is a knock at the front door. Ya never know who might be out there. He tries peeking through the blinds without being seen from the outside & finally sees an unfamiliar car out front but decides he will take a chance & answer it. It is Jeralyn delivering a beautiful bouquet of yellow roses mixed with some other really pretty flowers in a cobalt blue vase. 
They are from Linda.
Jeralyn sits down to chat for a while & I offer her something to drink. I name off what we have & she picks the beer, of course. Well, root beer. I find out something I never knew about her. Root beer is her fav.
Another knock at the door. Jerry answers it. Lee & Amber come in. Ahhh, I didn't think I would get to see them since he had called me earlier. Nice surprise. Amber hands me an envelope. I look at the clock & it is 5:32pm. I go & round up all of my cards. I have two in the kitchen, the one from Jerry & one that came in the mail, two in the computer room that came yesterday. They are all so sweet. I have a gift card for BB&B from Lee & Amber.
Lee shows us his new picture book. It is really nice. I keep trying to trade my gift card for that but he will not trade. Oh well. Jeralyn has to leave. Lee & Amber stay a while longer then they have to leave. It has been fun seeing all of them for a while.
Jerry gets his shower & then takes my order for Subway. He has been asking since yesterday morning what I want for my birthday dinner & I finally decided I wanted a sub. Dotsie calls & wishes me a happy day or says she hopes I had one. I tell her it got better as it progressed.
I call Mother while Jerry is gone to get the subs & she said, you have a birthday coming up tomorrow, don't you. I tell her no. She is surprised & I say it is today. She apologies for not getting my card in the mail. I tell her she didn't need to send me a card anyway. We decide I can pick it up. Of course she wants me to come now...8:30ish and I say no, not tonight.
Jerry gets home & we don't have a thing to watch....no wait, we do, I haven't watched today's taping of Young & Restless so we watch that while we have a birthday feast of BMTs with potato chips. YUMMY!!
By the end of the day, 58 turns out to be all right.
