37 Times Around The Sun

It's my birthday today, and I'm delighted that it falls on a Saturday because it means I get to spend the day with my favouritest people in the world. (Too bad Mister Bunny didn't make it beyond Monday, because he was one of them). Alexander joins me in my visit to the Ministry of Transportation right after I post this (have to renew my truck plates), then we head to the library for our weekly father and son book love fest.

We'll likely then all head off as a family to play at the park (if the rain holds off) and do some shopping -- then tonight, I get to go out on a dinner date with Francine. Awesome. Fran and I haven't had a nice quiet dinner together at a restaurant in way too long. Should be nice. I'm really looking forward to the dinner and if there's time, heading off for coffee and dessert -- there's a Second Cup location on Upper James. It's no Tim Horton's mind you, but the desserts are nice and there are comfy seats and a nice fireplace we can sit near and chat.

In fun birthday news today, I received the contract for two of my stories to appear in a UK published anthology called Naked Tales: Stories by Writers Who Blog. The very first story sale I made (a young adult humour piece) will be reprinted in it as well as a new short story "This Time Around" which was the genesis for and was converted into the first three chapters of the work in progress, my humorous mystery werewolf novel that I'm calling "A Canadian Werewolf in New York" -- pretty fun stuff.