Birthday #59

I am now 59 years old. I wish it were my 60th or something, because what significance is there to 59? I guess not everything has to be significant.

Anyway, it hasn't really registered with me. Kind of a "so what?" I'm not complainin'.

I did take the day off work yesterday. Not for any particular reason, but just because I'm sick of the place, and still dealing with this sinus/cold thing, so I just stayed home and didn't do anything. Almost literally. I guess you could say taking the day off work is my gift to myself. It was nice.

The two of us went out to eat Monday night, since I could sleep in Tuesday. We went to the Club Room for their weekly blues jam night. It was a good time. I love watching those old blues guys who can play whatever song somebody brings up.

I slept in a little - until about 7 am - then just hung around the house in my pajamas. I played games on my phone, caught up on my Illini reading, and wrote several blog posts. I spent the entire time in silence. That's a good day for me. I can only dream about another pandemic shutdown...

I had taken my car in for an oil change the night before and left it there. They called to tell me it was ready to be picked up around 3 pm, so I finally put some clothes on and went for my first jog since completing the marathon. It is 2.3 miles from our house to the shop and I ran the whole way. I was overdressed and worked up quite the sweat. When I got home I went for a 2-mile walk to eat up the rest of an hour.

My traditional birthday supper is usually a Tombstone Deluxe frozen pizza. I love them!! Jane stopped at three different grocery stores and the closest she could get was a Tombstone Supreme. It worked, but it's not the same.

Jane also got me this awesome print (pictured above) from David Hayward (Nakedpastor.com). It is his 'Christ Collage Images of Christ.' I love it too, and can't decide if I will include it on the 'Jesus Wall' or display it separately. He says of it:

"I started drawing different Images of Christ a few years ago to express the very Christian theological idea that the Spirit of Christ is manifested in the reconciliation of all things. This collage includes my 16 drawings of Christ."

So, that's about all there is to being 59 at this point. Just another day. Next year I will be 60. I'm actually kind of looking forward to it. Maybe at 60 I can get out of this funk I've been in! We'll see...

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Ecclesiastes 11:8

“Even those who live many years should take pleasure in them all.”