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March 31, 2008
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On Sunday morning at around 3am or so local time, I complete my fortieth lap around the sun. I am officially older than Jack Benny.
A few friends came over while I prepared a batch of jambalaya, which I made spicier than usual (but still not spicy enough). Several of our guests have kids Alex & Nolan's ages, so the kids all played upstairs while the grown-ups enjoyed grown-up conversation downstairs. It was an enjoyable, low-key affair. Good food, good friends, kids safely (for the most part) entertaining themselves. It had snowed the day before (very unusual for this part of the country at this time of year), which leant to the "lazy Sunday" quality of the day.
All-in-all, not a bad way to mark the occasion.
Someone asked me if I'd be picking up a fast car or a motorcycle soon. There were other references to middle age thrown around. Friends of mine who have known me long enough will note that I've been in a mid-life crisis since approximately seventh grade, so I've gotten most of the living-dangerously urges out of my system, I think.
Our house saw another rite-of-passage by Monday morning. Alexander woke up having lost his first baby tooth. By the end of the day, Alex had lost a second tooth; both had been loose for a quite a while. In the morning, the tooth fairy is probably going to have to pay a little visit. What's the going rate for a tooth these days? Is it still a quarter?
My little boy is growing up. And I've aged gracelessly into a fat old man. I guess that means my parents are older than dirt. Bwahahaha.
(Hi, Mom.)
Now that I think about it, Jack Benny accomplished a great deal by the time he was 39. I guess I'd better get cracking.
Posted by on March 31, 2008 10:34 PM in the following Department(s): Tidbits
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Sure, Jack Benny accomplished a great deal by the time he was 39, but what did it get him? Nothing -- they just laughed at him.
Orson Welles created _Citizen Kane_ when he was just 26, so by that standard, you've been a failure for 14 years now.
For her first tooth I (I mean, the Tooth Fairy) gave my daughter all the change I happened to have in my pocket at the time. My daughter insisted on leaving her tooth under her pillow in *sealed* envelope. Smart kid. Wanted to make sure the Tooth Fairy got the delivery. After she was asleep I stealthed into her room like an overgrown ninja and retrieved said envelope. I left another *sealed* envelope with the change already mentioned in place of the envelope containing the tooth. (Yes, you can remove an object from someone's grasp and replace it with another object while they are sleeping and they will not wake up.) She woke up the next morning screaming. Why? She was excited that the Tooth Fairy had clearly used her magic to unseal her envelope, take the tooth out, put the change in, and resealed the envelope. Thereby proving the Tooth Fairy is real. It was $1.37 in change. Worth every penny in that envelope.
Posted by: Greg Zuvich on April 3, 2008 5:02 PMcongratulations on the birthday and welcome to the club. My grandmother is closing in on 102 (and still in good shape), so 40 isn't even middle-aged in my family.
As to the tooth fairy, be glad you're only working in one currency. The tooth fairy in Australia leaves a one dollar coin. It gets problematical when teeth come out while travelling overseas.
We did leave a note for the tooth fairy when the first tooth came out, asking her if I could have the tooth to keep. In the morning, there was a coin under his pillow and a very small tooth under mine....MAGIC.
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