Crazy Old Cat Lady

I went to the URL for CatLady to see who got my preferred URL name and it's just one useless entry and then I checked out my next preferred URL name of CrazyCatLady (son#1 calls me "Crazy Lady" and the rest of the world calls me "Cat Lady" so I thought a URL was born) and she's a great writer, but I can't find any way to add a comment telling her so. So my URL ended up being CrazyOldCatLady. My web page is http://cvanhorn.homestead.com/

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

IT'S MY 72nd BIRTHDAY

I never imagined that I would have so many birthdays as so many people in my family died young. (As the saying goes, "If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.")

The birthday I remember best was my birthday with the slogan- "I'll be 21 on the 21st." That was back when turning 21 meant something. That was when the age to vote was 21. I didn't worry about it also being the age to drink legally because I was in college in Illinois and girls could drink at 18, although their dates couldn't. Who thought that one up?

On one birthday a few years ago, I found a gravy stirrer in my favorite thrift shop that I had been searching for for years. I haven't seen another similar one since then.

This morning, going in to the college computer lab to help the students, a student stopped me to say hello and told me that I was a great teacher and that I had really helped her last year. I would call that a pretty special birthday present.