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40 something, for the last time

     So it was my birthday yesterday. # 49, jeeze I'm getting up there in the years. Been seeing a girl, we will refer to her as my Girlfriend. A really special girl. I think she has been planing this birthday bash thing we did for some time now. Well all but the mini class reunion at the Sandbar, down on Kellogg Ave. Karen comes over about 5ish, baring gifts. I was not expecting her to go all out like she did, but then again, that's Karen... a real special gal.We went out for dinner, had a chicken dinner that couldn't be beat, and then back to my place. Was it open the gifts or have the cake first? I think it was the gift thing; does this girl know how to shop? I mean shirts, and lots of them. Back up a few... you are on my blog, you no doubt noticed in the side bar I prefer Fender guitars... no she didn't get me a Telecaster, but she did get me a Fender t-shirt, bless her heart. A few other t-shirts, and even a dressy shirt, man I just love this girl! A hard binder book, pages are blank so I can write on them, she is so thoughtful, but the cover is what gets me. Charlie the Unicorn... ha, can you beat that? Well, this is just getting better and better, see before my birthday, on the 9th, I was over her place helping to celebrate her daughters birthday and she presents me with 2 small tokens, pirate in nature, a bottle opener with a skull and cross bones and a wrist band, that reads "Never trust a smiling pirate." I have not had a girlfriend that has payed so much attention to my "alterego" The Pirate Named Neo. I always thought it was a catchy nick on the computer. Neo (the pirate has been around for about 6 or 7 years, a sort of tribute to the cat I had to give away). Back to Karen, this post is centered on her... Last night one of the gifts she gave me was a stuffed animal, a cat, dressed as a pirate, it was so cute. Moving on to the cake. Yea the cake too... no nothing about pirates, but she had asked me a bit ago what my favorite cake was. Wouldn't you know it, a chocolate cake with coconut in the frosting. Did this girl think of everything?  To top the evening we head down to Kellogg Ave on the Ohio river to a Marina, The Four Seasons Marina to a little bar The Sandbar. A few friends from high school were planning a mini class reunion there and had personally invited me. Original plan was dinner and a movie, but changed to dinner back to my place and to the bar. At the bar my friends made it a "Birthday Party" II had the band there call me front and center, sang happy birthday, I tell you I have not had this much attention on my birthday in years. I was to say the least, the man of the hour, or 2 or 3.
         Thank You, every one involved, it was the time of my life, 
                                Pirate Named Neo

A Great Date

     Interesting story I experienced last night.  I went out with my girlfriend to see The Rusty Grizwalds, in Deer Park. I'm standing there checking out the band, or the stage, I don't think the band had come up yet. A woman, 10 - 15 feet away from me is looking at me; as I can tell straight in the eyes, saying something. I check over my shoulder, yup... she was talking to me. I look, she had that familiar look, someone I knew or had talked to in my past. I step a bit closer, and I can hear her saying "How's your daughter... Heather, is her name, right?" brief pause, she announces straight to me, I have this way of knowing when someone is talking to me... "you have a daughter?" I quickly answer, "yes, but her name is Jasmine." Lisa (I think that was the woman's name) continues, "Oh, well I was close, a flower of some sort... so how is Jasmine?" Then the memory started coming back, I had talked with this woman a few times when I was living in Deer Park hanging in a local drinking establishment. I did recall how she had spoke, very excited at that, about her new house that she and her then boyfriend had just purchased.  Lisa was speaking of the house at 4011 such n such a street. She did go on to explain, you know... when you have more to do than you can possibly accomplish and you call it 40- 11 things to do. Struck me as rather odd that I would remember this from more than 10 years ago. 

     The night went on, quite nicely, Karen even commented on how we had both seen people that we knew from "back in the day." My girlfriend, Karen was the main reason I made it a point to be at that show. She's about my age, hitting the party scene in clubs back in the 80's when dance music was all the rage. That is the music the band Rusty Grizwalds specialize in. Karen, lives over the west side of town, met up with some old friends she went to school with last night... I was thinking, for me, if was easy to meet someone I knew, I lived in Deer Park for quite a number of years, Karen on the other hand, this was her first time ever being in Deer Park. Would have to go in the category of "Unexplained Phenomena".  
     Last night would go down as the best date we have had to this point. Here I thought the first one at the fireworks in Blue Ash was going to be hard to beat. We did work our way up to the stage, so we could be right in the mix, little dancing, lots of hugging and kissing. I had a great time, and even better than the closeness, I could tell Karen was having a great time, she did a lot more dancing than I did. Reminded me of last week end at one point, I found some music files on disc, Billboard top 100 of the year. I have collected these, as a hobby; from 1970-1989 or so, think the only missing year is 1981. I put the file from 1983 in and about every song was "Oh, I love this tune." Most other years, seemed to be topped with "Don't think so." Only a few tunes Rusty Grizwalds did got less than "I love this tune" and a happy dancing girlfriend. Thanks RG... I have caught you guys out at festivals and such several times, never to be disappointed in a good time, this one topped em all.