My mother gave me a bottle of Vitamin C pills and said that I should
take them to avoid catching a cold.  I haven’t had a cold in
almost 10 months, but decided to start taking them anyway…  I
got a cold the next day.  Go figure.



Thank you for the great birthday.  I’ve
been blessed with the phone calls and comments of many friends.  Mom bought me a watch, vitamin C, and a renewal for the
registration of my car, josh’s family bought me dinner, and I bought
myself the Count of Monte Crisco (unabridged) — that’s 1,462 pages of
Alexandre Dumas at his best.  My favorite part of the day was
little Vivi (5) singing me happy birthday along with the family over
the cell phone.



All of you are too kind.  Seriously.  My box of tissues agree.