Quietly Come and Gone

Just the way I prefer my Birthdays.... to come and go quietly. I so dreaded turning 40 last year, but I survived and I'm grateful. My B-day was a relatively good one. The sun was shining bright. A day that looked to be warm, but was deceiving. It was chilly as it usually is since it falls in the middle of January. And here I sit now looking out the window two days later at the beautiful ice and snow covered roofs and street and trees. The ice storm of 2007 is upon us here in Oklahoma. Safe and warm in my home with my family makes me feel thankful. I treated myself on my B-day to a much needed trip to the Salon to see Lori. Oh, what would I do without her! She fixed me right up with new highlights and a cut to brighten me up and make me feel brand new. She always knows just what to do and say to make every trip I make to see her worth while. I also got a nice, long nap in later in the afternoon. Nothing like a good nap to pep ya right up. On our Birthdays, we usually get to pick a restaurant of our choice but it didn't work that way. R brought home Chinese takeout which was fine with me. The boys weren't too thrilled about it but they survived. They gave me sweet cards that made me go "aaawwwww". They also got me a SOFT, pink sweater vest that I really liked and will enjoy wearing I'm sure. A bakery did an outstanding job on my B-day cake. It literally was to die for and soooooo awesome looking that I didn't even want to cut into it. But of course the boys wouldn't even think of that so I was forced to indulge. It was so good!!!! Chocolate, four layers separated by chocolate mousse and chocolate fudge on the ouside, YUM. The edible ribbon decoration on the outsides and the top looked better than they tasted. But it accented the cake and made it simply beautiful. Here, see for yourself!



I was not thrilled that the cake pretty much sabbatoged all the good I've been accomplishing since the beginning of the year trying to exercise daily and eat right (which went right out the window). But I didn't let it get me down, but just went right back to getting my butt back into the workout room and on the elipitical trainer for my daily 45 minute, 3 & 1/2 mile workout. I'm proud of the committment I've made and how good it's making me feel. Now, to just keep it up..... and to get rid of the rest of that cake! So all in all it was a good day even though what I didn't get what I really wanted which was, hhhmmmm..... maybe to be tied up and teased, tormented and given my 41 Birthday spankings properly, smiles. Believe me, I, as always thought about that alot. But this is something that would have been completely and utterly over the top had I gotten this for Birthday. You can be assured that I have the wesite where I found it safely bookmarked and maybe I'll get it one of these days if I'm lucky!




As well, I also ran across some other interesting information about my Birthday on this website http://www.paulsadowski.com/birthday.asp.

11 January 1966
Your date of conception was on or about 20 April 1965 which was a Tuesday.
You were born on a Tuesdayunder the astrological sign Capricorn.
Your Life path number is 7.

The information about my life path number, I found to be pretty much right on in regards to who and what I am.

A Life Path 7 person is a peaceful and affectionate soul. But you guard your connection to people carefully. It's easy for you to detect deception and recognize insincere people, and you avoid them. You aren't one to have a wide circle of friends, but once you accept someone as a friend, it's for life. It's as if you must get to know someone a lot better before you allow the wall surrounding you to be penetrated. Chances are you are a very charming and refined individual with great poise and a quick wit. Nonetheless, there is an exclusiveness about you. You probably aren't a very social person. Your reserve is often taken to be aloofness, but actually, it's not that at all. It is merely a cover up for your basic feeling of insecurity. There's no rush, It takes time for you to warm up to new friends. Clubs and organizations hold little interest for you; you are not a joiner.
You actually like being alone and away from the hustle and bustle of modern life. In many ways, you would have fit in better in much earlier times when the pace of life was less hectic. You need a good deal of quiet time to be with your own inner thoughts and dreams. You dislike crowds, noise, distractions, and confusion.
The overwhelming strength of the number 7 is reflected in the depth of thinking that is shown; you will garner knowledge from practically every source that you find. Intellectual, scientific, and studious, you don't accept a premise until you have dissected the subject and arrived at your own independent conclusion.
This is a very spiritual number and it often denotes a sort of spiritual wisdom that becomes apparent at a fairly early age. A built in inner guide providing a strong sense of intuition may set you up as being a law unto yourself. Whatever spiritual position you take, whether traditional or bizarre, you will cling to it with fervor. Once you have decided an issue, it is almost impossible to get you to revisit the question. Adaptability is not your style, and change for you is a rarity.
You rely heavily on your experiences and your intuition, rather than accepting advice from someone. Your hunches usually prove to be very accurate, and knowing this, you follow the directions they seem to guide.
In the most negative use of the 7 energies, you can become very pessimistic, lackadaisical, quarrelsome, and secretive. A Life Path 7 individual who is not living life fully and gaining through experiences, is a hard person to live with because of a serious lack of consideration for others. There is such a negative attitude. Indeed, operating on the negative side of the 7 can produce a very selfish and spoiled individual and living with one can be a challenge. This may be why some 7s actually prefer living alone. If you have any of the negative traits they are very difficult to get rid of because you tend to feel that the world really does owe you a living or that in some way you are not being fairly treated.
Fortunately, the negative 7 is not the typical 7, at least not without some mitigating positive traits. This number is one that seems to have some major shifts from highs to lows. Stability in feelings may be elusive for you.

Hopefully 41 won't be so too bad if I can only figure out how to slow down how quickly the years continue to pass me by.