It’s my birthday and I’ll blog if I want to. You would blog too if it happened to you. It’s October. It’s Blog Post # 91. It’s great to be alive. Let’s hope it continues… for a while anyway.

Happy Birthday

Yes, today is my birthday. No, I can’t think of anything I’d rather do to celebrate than write this amazing blog. Do what you love, ‘they’ say.

In my circle of friends, there seems to be an over representation of October birthdays. Why is that? That’s because our parents celebrated Valentine’s Day as it was meant to be celebrated. There was no Match.com. No Tinder… and no condoms.

October Celebrations

My wife and I have a couple of trips planned; Vancouver Island, to celebrate a number of birthdays and Seattle to watch my favorite, but terrible, hockey team play. Go Canucks Go!

There are so many celebrations this month. Here in Canada, we celebrate Thanksgiving and Hallowe’en. In one, we eat way too much junk and in the other we give thanks… to the rebel who defied authority, was banished from the kingdom, and now encourages us to cut the heads off live turkeys. God bless him! This is the same thanks we all give on my birthday; celebrating this rebel, who defied authority. Odin bless me!

Novel

My novel is moving forward but slowly. I’m revamping and re-reading sections on a semi regular basis with a mix of effort and procrastination. Here’s a bit of dialogue from the chapter I’m currently working on. No context, no spoilers… quite yet:

“Africa could be great. Just know that you can do something to be proud of every day, right here and now, many times a day. You don’t need to travel halfway around the world to live your best life.”

“Yeah, that’s what my aunt said too.”

“Smart lady.”

City Living

My wife and I have spent a lot of time discussing, reflecting, and planning our life goals and ambitions. My recent health challenges have made it difficult to know what we’ll be able and not able to do. For now, we’re still loving and enjoying city living. Will the wonder and excitement wear off?

Words Of Wisdom

1. Be grateful and appreciative for every day.

2. Don’t be a perfictionist.

3. Don’t wait for a ‘special’ day or an occasion in order to celebrate. Celebrate every day. Celebrate life. Celebrate me. It’s my birthday!

Thanks for celebrating my birthday by reading my blog. It’s now time for the ending jokes. I’ve been a bit short on jokes lately, so I’ve stolen one. My dad used to tell this first joke but I’m pretty sure he got it from somewhere else. A joke is a joke though so enjoy.

I renewed my driver’s license this month. The conversation at the licensing office went like this:

“Name?”

“Roy”

“Last name?”

“Mundheim”

“Birthday?”

“October 18^th“

“What year?”

“Every year”

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Countries are changing names.

Turkey changed their name to Türkiye’ because they did not want to be associated with the bird.

Russia have requested to change their name to Terrorbull to better reflect their political policies.

America have been debating changing their name to Turkey because they don’t want to be associated with America.