Happy Birthday to me
Well, I’m thirty-nine today. You might think, if you read last year’s birthday post, that I’d be reporting a monumental hangover, or that I’d had a wild night of sex with a Jewish woman (and thus fulfilled my lapsed ambition of copulating with a female representative of each of the world’s major religions). But no. I awoke at 7.30 and went off as usual to my Karate lesson. On a Sunday morning!
As I approach the big 40, with two small kids, I’ve realised that my best chance of being healthy enough to see the kids leave home, and take Nongyow on our long-planned overland trip from London to Bangkok is to do something about my beer belly and my propensity to break into a sweat just walking to the fridge for another can of Guinness. And do it now.
So - it’s six months since I had my last cigarette; I’m doing regular exercise and enjoying it (this from the man who skived Games at school every week for four years!), and I’ve valiantly resisted the temptations of sultry Jewesses (because being dismembered by Nongyow obviously precludes any dotage at all, let alone a healthy one).
And, oddly, I do feel better*. Now, where’s my beer?
* Except for the lack of Jewish girls, that is.
have a big cuban cigar with your fry-up today…you deserve it
November 13th, 2005 at 2:26 pm
oh, and remember…kawai!!!!
November 13th, 2005 at 2:26 pm
Have a good one. We are now the same age. For 9 days. When I hit 40.
November 13th, 2005 at 3:03 pm
Happy birthday!!!
November 13th, 2005 at 4:14 pm
Happy Birthday, mate!
November 13th, 2005 at 5:33 pm
Happy birthday Bruce!!
November 13th, 2005 at 5:58 pm
You share a birthday with Rageboy, Whoopi Goldberg, George Carey (ex Archbishop of Canterbury) and Joe Mantagna.
That explains it then.
November 13th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
Happy Birthday, mate! For some reason, I thought you were much younger (you probably told me that)
November 14th, 2005 at 1:10 am
Having seen many Thai news reports, I can well believe that Nongyow might not think twice about taking a bread knife to a part of your body that is generally best left unsliced
Happy birthday, and don’t give up all your vices (or at least, not completely!)
November 14th, 2005 at 1:07 pm
Happy Birthday for yesterday. Are you really given up smoking and doing martial arts lol?
November 14th, 2005 at 9:16 pm
As a feminist, I take great exception to your ambition of “copulating” with women from different religions.
It demeans these women, treating them solely as sex-objects. Making love is a spiritual union between two equal partners.
Shame on you.
November 15th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY big boy! Are you sure you mean karate and not origami?
November 15th, 2005 at 7:02 pm
mazl-tov!
November 16th, 2005 at 1:10 am
Anon - I said “copulate” (”To engage in coitus or sexual intercourse”), not “attack”, so it was equal partners.
Consensting adults can choose to have sex together without it being a “spiritual union”. It’s just a shag. I hadn’t realised that modern femininsm required Barbara Cartland-style misty-eyed romance. Colour me confused.
goodwitch - does “mazl-tov” mean you’re Jewish? What are you doing later?
November 16th, 2005 at 7:46 am
Hey Bruce, Shalom….now what you doing later lol
LemmyX (not the misty eyed romantic man)
November 18th, 2005 at 3:46 pm
Bruce…indeed…I’m a half-breed. Raised reformed jew and episcopalian. So, I know book 1 and book 2! My new term for my mixed religion is “I’m a swirl.” (a swirl as in a sangria sangria swirl margarita.
And while I might be married…I am a wicked flirt!
November 21st, 2005 at 9:09 pm