always was a sucker for a guitar solo

today is me birtday.  56 years.  ow.  well.  no matter.  moving on...

mama tells me that i was born on the morning of april 7, 1957.  dr. helm was so excited about this pregnancy.  mama and daddy had just lost my big sister lori before mama got pregnant with me.  lori was around 2 when she died i think.  a beautiful 2 year old baby girl.  she had a heart problem that could not be fixed. in those days anyway.  i can't imagine losing a two year old.  one of the many hard knocks mama and daddy endured throughout the years.  anyway, mama tells me dr. helm was very thrilled and excited for them that i was coming along to bring back some of the joy that was lost in lori's passing.

the morning i was born daddy had gone with his brother to a dr.'s appointment somewhere "down the country".  mama says uncle leroy brought her into the hospital in new roads for delivery.  after i was born i suppose dr. helm had left the hospital and was somewhere on daddy's route home, because mama said when he saw daddy coming he got out and flagged him down to tell him the glad tidings of his new baby girl having made her entrance into the world.

i did turn out to be very much a daddy's girl.

in other news, i have made a date with myself to proceed on to brcc on wednesday morning as close to 8 a.m.as i can muster to hole up in the library and take the placement test for beginning classes in the summer.  i want to shoot for a math and an english perhaps?  depends on the scheduling i reckon.  as math is my nemisis, i have been trying my best to study up.  i can't believe i'm getting excited about re-learning math.  of a certain it shall be a remedial class.  let the fun begin :)