Even though my country is in the control of sorry excuses for leaders who aren’t sorry for wreaking widespread havoc, I still had a great birthday yesterday which included delicious food prepared by my husband Michael and my annual game of Sorry!
Michael was sorry that he couldn’t find the electric mixer to whip the egg whites and the cream, but he still managed to create wonderful chocolate soufflés as promised.
I’m not sorry to share all these images with you now.
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The Daily Bitch never seems sorry about her behaviors. Maybe she should be in charge of the government.
Here’s what I find when I search for “sorry” on YouTube.
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Thanks to all who are here for this sorry blog post, including YOU!
While many people have negative feelings about age (some right-wing jerk on Twitter called me an “old hag” last week), I feel incredibly lucky and grateful to be this age. That’s why I never lie about or conceal my age; instead, I brag about it.
Do you see age in my images for today?
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From a very young age I’ve known that my birthday was Groundhog Day, but it took this advanced age to find out that it is also World Play Your Ukulele Day!
Thanks to all who are helping me to celebrate my age, including YOU!
Also, I resolved the ticket problem I described in yesterday’s post, which is cool, and it’s VERY cool that my cool husband, Michael, is going to see the cool production of Frankenstein by the extraordinarily cool Manual Cinema with me in February, which is a really cool month in New England for several reasons.
I’m turning 70 tomorrow on what I think is a very cool birthday to have, Groundhog Day. Today is my last day to be in my 60s and I’m completely cool with that.
Do you see anything cool in today’s images?
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On National Baked Alaska Day, I think it’s cool to share that Baked Alaska was my favorite dessert when I was a kid and I had that for the first time in decades this past weekend.
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I thought it would be cool to compare the two versions of “Cool” from the 1961 and 2021 West Side Story films.
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What are your thoughts and feelings about this “Cool” post?
Thanks to all who help me keep my cool every day, including YOU!
If you got nothing better to do this Friday, February 5, between 7 – 9 PM Eastern Standard Time, here’s the sign-up link to be in the audience to hear me sing those lyrics and more:
… and when I showed my boyfriend Michael Malone the birthday card with original art created by my newest good friend Alice Malone (no relation between those two cute Malones).
I think Alice Malone’s drawing of a tiger looking at ties is much more than cute. Don’t you?
I don’t think it’s cute how there’s a delay between my taking photos on my iPhone and my ability to post them in my blog, especially when I deliberately take pictures of things I think are cute. However, I will share all my other new photos from yesterday and share those other cute photos when they turn up (probably tomorrow).
If you decide you want a closer look at the cuteness in those photos, give a cute click on the photo of your choice.
While I am creating this blog post, a lot of cute people are distracting me (as I was distracted during my “cute” performance last night by a cute kid dancing in front of the audience) by wishing me a happy birthday.
I’m going to make another cute try and see if I can access those other cute photos.
That was February 1st when I took those photos, this is now February 2nd, Groundhog Day, and my 65th birthday.
For those of us who are still recovering from the past, this is now the time to tell ourselves: “That was then, this is now.” The then is still with us, but the now offers the gifts of opportunity, healing, and hope.
That was then when I watched and listened to The Monkees. This is now “That Was Then, This is Now.”
That was my blog post for the day. This is now my gratitude for all who have helped me get through the then and the now, including the Monkees, The New Yorker, Roz Chast, and YOU.
Speaking of family compliments, I know a very effective exercise that helps families give compliments to each other. Here’s how it works:
The family gathers in a room, with a writing implement and some nice paper.
One member of the family leaves the room.
The rest of the family members come up with compliments about the person who is not there. (These must be authentic, unqualified and non-left-handed compliments.)
One of the family members writes down the compliments.
When the person who left the room returns, that person is given the list of compliments from the rest of the family.
Repeat Steps 2 through 5, for each family member.
I am going to pay a compliment to my old friend, Joe: I really appreciate him for telling me about this family exercise, decades ago.
Here’s a photo of some of the compliments I got from my family (including my sister Ellen, my late mother, my late father, and my ex-husband) when we did that family exercise:
It’s a compliment to my family members how I’ve saved and cherished that list for so many years.
Here are some more complimentary thoughts from me about compliments:
I’ve witnessed many people in group and individual therapy struggle to accept compliments that are sincerely given.
Receiving a compliment that does not fit your perception of yourself can feel painful at times.
I like to give people compliments, authentically and freely.
I believe that learning to accept compliments can be powerfully healing.
I wonder if I’ll get any compliments about these photos I took yesterday.
All my photos are taking forever to load in WordPress today. Since I have paid WordPress the compliment of buying additional storage space and I have paid my readers the compliment of spending hours in the service of helping my photos load more quickly, I hope this is temporary. Otherwise, I may have to pay some left-handed compliments to WordPress over this long weekend.
I shall now pay myself the compliment of sharing my first ever tweet with hashtags, which I created on Twitter while I was waiting for my photos to load here:
I love being in the moment, especially when that moment is a Friday night of a long weekend.
I shall now pay a compliment to my cat Oscar and my boyfriend Michael by including this photo from August, two years ago (which I hope pays us all the compliment of loading easily).
Feel free to include any right-handed or left-handed compliments in a comment, below.
Complimentary thanks to my family, to Michael/Mike the boyfriend, to Joe the friend, to Oscar the cat, to the Brothers Smothers, to WordPress, to Twitter, to people who do their best to give and receive compliments, and to you — of course! — for paying me the compliment of visiting here, today.
