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Each Day Already is a Challenge
A Texas Sunrise
 
A friend, William Taylor, took this picture. He visits Surfside Beach with his dogs almost every morning, watching the sun rise while the dogs prance about at the water's edge.
This is only about ten miles from where I lived in Lake Jackson, Texas. Sadly, I only visited this beach about four times in the six years I lived nearby.
Each day is a challenge. A challenge to get by without thinking about the fibromyalgia pains. A challenge to stay awake when chronic fatigure wants to take over. And a challenge to navigate through fibro fog.
I haven't been writing as much as in the past. For years, I wrote at least 500 words a day. Now, I'm lucky if I write 500 words in month. Sigh.
For more information about what my day (or life) is all about with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, chronic pains, IBS, depression and everything else thrown in, check this out:
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Hey! If you haven't made it to my party - given by hubby, Angela's Niece needs Praye   and Budroe , be sure and stop by there too.
And, TexansBeatTheMiamiDolphinsBy3 put a birthday merit badge in my port. Wow! ![Merit Badge in Birthday
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May this day provide for you all the spiritual nourishment and accolades you deserve. Your selflessness is the bar by which others should aspire to reach in their lifetime. And you have achieved much in your 55 glorious years. It's no surprise that so many love you, but I love you the mostest *^*Wink*^*.
But your Heavenly Father outloves us all, with the Most Perfect. *^*Delight*^*](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/general-Birthday-210.gif)
I started discovering last week - rediscovering, actually - that birthday greetings come from some of the strangest sources. I didn't mind that Sonic and Baskin Robbins were some of the first to remind me I was getting a year older.  Even though there aren't any of either of these establishments real close to where I live. I may still have to print out the coupons for freebies.
That reminded me of what it was like to turn 50. I didn't much like AARP when they sent the first greeing to me a few weeks before my 50th birthday. I later found out that's what they do to everyone, so I didn't feel singled out. Much.
I smiled when I opened an Easter e-card from an e-friend last week and found that he had also put an, "oh by the way happy birthday" message on that card.
Then, yesterday I started receiving messages from some of the strangest places. Sites that send me information that I don't really want or need, but that cannot be considered as spam since I have had some "relationship" with them in the past. It made me wonder if my first contacts with them included an information form with my birthday on it. Others were more "business-ey" sites that I cannot imagine needed to know my age. And yet they were standing in line to offer birthday wishes.
I suppose if these sites had offered birthday greetings in the past, I would not have found it so surprising. But most had not. So why now?
My sisters (and I) are not real good about sending greeting cards. Actually, each one of us will spend time in card stores pouring over cards way in advance of birthdays. Then we forget to send them.  It's not an old age thing. We've just always been that way. We surely didn't get this from our Mom. Mom was always good about remembering special days.
Birthday greetings are starting to come in from friends, though. Perhaps I should go and read...
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