Thirty three years ago today, the Boss Man and his Wife were “blessed” with a perfectly ornery, opinionated, hard-headed, bull nosed…the list can go on for a while….child. Yep, it’s my birthday, and what a great one!
The day started off a little before five as I pulled my butt out of bed to hit the gravel running. Running was followed by an on-key serenade from the Boss Man’s Wife, testing bulls, an off-key serenade by the Uncle, an argument with my four wheeler and an evening out on the town with the potential of a I didn’t know serenade by the waitress which was cut off pretty quick. Oh, and free dessert…which I did reluctantly hand to Ryan to take with him to work tomorrow…I’m getting old you know.
The advantage of having a birthday around here is that you have clout for the day. I used it as often as I could. I informed the deer flies that it was my birthday. I told the vet that I could play on the phone while testing bulls because it was my birthday. I even told the Boss Man’s longhorn steer who was engaged in a game of buffalo with me that today was my birthday.
For some reason even though it was my birthday I still ended up the day covered in sweat, bug bites, and manure. Evidently my clout skills need some work.
I wrote a blog yesterday about the negativity that is included in social media. The response was amazing. Of course there was the individual that disagreed with everything I said and did…to each his own, but what was amazing was that I received some great emails, and I want to thank those that took the time to spread encouragement. With that and all of the birthday wishes I felt extremely blessed…and it led me to an idea.
I have a friend from Kansas that turned 30 this year. She is an avid runner and decided that she was going to set a personal goal for herself of racing in 30 races while she was 30. She’s on number 20 right now, and looks like she’s set up to clobber that goal. Now there is no way in heck I’m going to try and run 33 races when I’m just hoping to run one in November (that yes she talked me into), but that doesn’t mean I can’t do something else.
All the positivity I received today made the one negative tolerable. So for the next year, I’m setting a personal goal to do 33 acts of kindness. This can’t be something that I already volunteer for or find myself already doing or participating in….it needs to be above and beyond. It might be little/big/ or crude what did I get myself into act, but it needs to make somebody smile and inject some positivity into their day.
With that being said keep on the lookout for #1, hopefully coming soon!
