Happy Birthday to me!

Today is my 47th birthday! I've had a good day, pretty uneventful, which is fine with me. The next couple of weeks are going to be crazy so it was nice to just have a day to relax and do nothing.

The clouds all around our house this evening were ominous and it looked like it was raining all around me...just not at my house!

The John Denver song, Poems, Prayers and Promises, has been going through my head all day and it pretty much (with gender modifications) sums up how I'm feeling today.

Ive been lately thinking
About my life's time
All the things Ive done
And how its been
And I cant help believing
In my own mind
I know I'm gonna hate to see it end

Ive seen a lot of sunshine
Slept out in the rain
Spent a night or two all on my own
Ive known my (husbands) pleasures
Had myself some friends
And spent a time or two in my own home

And I have to say it now
Its been a good life all in all
Its really fine
To have a chance to hang around
And lie there by the fire
And watch the evening tire
While all my friends and my old (man)
Sit and pass the pipe around

And talk of poems and prayers and promises
And things that we believe in
How sweet it is to love someone
How right it is to care
How long its been since yesterday
And what about tomorrow
And what about our dreams
And all the memories we share

The days they pass so quickly now
Nights are seldom long
And time around me whispers when its cold
The changes somehow frighten me
Still I have to smile
It turns me on to think of growing old
For though my life's been good to me
There's still so much to do
So many things my mind has never known
Id like to raise a family
Id like to sail away
And dance across the mountains on the moon

I have to say it now
Its been a good life all in all
Its really fine
To have the chance to hang around
And lie there by the fire
And watch the evening tire
While all my friends and my old (man)
Sit and pass the pipe around

And talk of poems and prayers and promises
And things that we believe in
How sweet it is to love someone
How right it is to care
How long its been since yesterday
What about tomorrow
What about our dreams
And all the memories we share

And to make a good day even better, it is finally raining here!