My birthday wish for you...

The final countdown has begun.  It is less than 10 days away.  In fact it is only 6 days until I turn the F word.

Get your minds out the gutter people!  I am talking about the other F word.

F-O-R-T-Y!

For the record, it will officially be the 1st anniversary of my 39th birthday.  Well it is!  And if you think otherwise I'm gonna beat you up!  Not really because you can all outrun me anyways!

I have been thinking about some birthdays past & the different things I've done to celebrate.  When I was 20 I had a spacewalk party.  My now 27 year old cousins, who were then 7, just reminded me of this.  They thought that I was the coolest cousin ever.  Probably because I am!  Right Shane & Sean?

For my 21st we acted very adult & wore Burger King crowns & went to the Star Casino to go gambling.  Back when gambling was a brand new thing.  When I turned 24, I was having a nice brunch with my then fiance' & my friend Jen when the GD Brightfield crashed into the Riverwalk.  Jeff got called into work.  I didn't see hin for 2 days after that.  Jen & I kept the party going into the night that day.

Back to the title of this post.  I am making my birthday wish for all of you.  My faithful readers.  My wish for you is that you are never afraid to do or to try something new.  Upon reflection of my birthdays past, I now realize that there are so many things I wish I could do.  And now I can't do.

I certainly can't relive the spacewalk party.

I always wished to go to Rockefeller Center & ice skate.  That's out.  I used to love to ice skate.  Do you remember when there were ice skating rinks in Elmwood, Chateau & the Plaza?  I do.  I skated them all.  I even skated the Houston Galleria.  I skated when they had the rink in City Park.           No more.

I wish I had gone on a zip line.  I had the chance but was too afraid.  I wish I had climbed the waterfall in Jamaica.  I wish I took helicopter rides when I was in Hawaii or Canada.  I wish I had swam with the dolphins.  Damn Jaws ruined that one!  There are so many wishes I've had to let go.  They say the only regret you should have in life is to have no regrets.  I never know exactly who "they" are but dammit if "they" weren't right.

That is why I'm making my birthday wish for you.  My wish will be for you to not have fear, to try things and to do things today because you don't know if there is a tomorrow.

Please honor my wish so that I can live vicariously through you.  That will make my birthday wish come true.