I turned 31 today. Thank you to all for your well wishes. If I don’t get back to you, my press agent surely will. My class had a not-so-secret party for me today. They were really pumped. They brought in some junk food, some cupcakes and pop. I think they wanted to throw me a party so they could have less work to do. Smart kids - it worked. We played some Rock, Paper, Scissors games and partied like it was 1999. One poor gaffer had too many cupcakes and had to sit out due to a bad stomach. He’s listed as day-to-day, but I’m sure he will bounce back.
Tonight, the First Lady and I are going to get some din din and my bday will be capped off with some Jays vs. O’s. All and all not a shabby day. It’s funny because now that I’m a father-to-be, I’ve begun to rethink the whole birthday system. Shouldn’t the parents of said child be celebrated and feted on the day that marks the childs birth? The parents are the one’s that did something (insert sexy music and get your mind out of the gutter because I’m trying to keep this blog a clean site and I don’t want the regulating bodies of the blogdom to shut me down and make me go all Pump Up the Volume to reach the masses so I want to keep this as clean as I can) . The kid, in this case, me, didn’t do anything but show up. The parents did all the work and the kid reaps the benefits. For a sports analogy, it would be like a running back banging the ball all the way down the field, running between the tackles, and then when it’s 1st and goal from 3-yard line, the coach sends in big bruising back for one carry and all the glory. It’s now my belief that the parents should receive some love on the birthday. So let me thank my folks, Rick and Julie, for bringing me into this world.
As I’m getting older things are starting to change. Weird things are happening to me. For example, I’m 31 years old today and it happens to be the day that I find a grey hair in my beard. Weird eh? I’m beginning to feel like an elder statesman now. I now know how the Ol’ Silver Fox, Craig Maclean, felt back in Grade Four. Grecian formula, here I come. Does anyone have any tips on how to apply that stuff? Please help me.

LOL! at least the grey hair wasn’t in your .. um.. nether regions