It is also a lie.

Happy Birthday to me - and a bunch of obscurely famous (and probably dead) people.

According to Wikipedia, I share a birthday with the following people:

• 1567 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
• 1601 - Jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680)
• 1650 - King William III of England (d. 1702)
• 1719 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)
• 1740 - Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher (d. 1792)
• 1746 - Giulio Gabrielli the Younger, Italian Cardinal (d. 1822)
• 1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
• 1771 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)
• 1776 - Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (d. 1847)
• 1778 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1837)
• 1779 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (d. 1850)
• 1797 - Charles Lyell, British geologist (d. 1875)
• 1803 - Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879)
• 1805 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)
• 1812 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (d. 1878)
• 1812 - Maria Christina of Savoy, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1836)
• 1828 - James B. McPherson, American Civil War general (d. 1864)
• 1838 - August Senoa, Croatian writer (d. 1881)
• 1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
• 1863 - Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (d. 1944)
• 1875 - Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (d. 1899)
• 1875 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (d. 1944)
• 1878 - Julie Manet, French painter, daughter of Berthe Morisot (d. 1966)
• 1878 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)
• 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India (d.1964)
• 1891 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
• 1895 - Louise Huff, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1895 - Walter Freeman, American physician (d. 1972)
• 1896 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
• 1898 - Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French writer and filmmaker (d. 1944)
• 1900 - Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
• 1904 - Dick Powell, American actor (d. 1963)
• 1904 - Harold Larwood, English cricketer (d. 1995)
• 1905 - John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (d. 1964)
• 1906 - Louise Brooks, American dancer, actress, and movie historian (d. 1985)
• 1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
• 1907 - Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader (d. 1995)
• 1907 - William Steig, American children's book author (d. 2003)
• 1908 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (d. 1957)
• 1910 - Eric Malpass, English novelist (d. 1996)
• 1912 - Barbara Hutton, American socialite (d. 1979)
• 1912 - T. Y. Lin, Chinese-born civil engineer (d. 2003)
• 1915 - Martha Tilton, American singer (d. 2006)
• 1916 - Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician (d. 1994)
• 1916 - Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer
• 1919 - Johnny Desmond, American singer (d. 1985)
• 1919 - Lisa Otto, German soprano
• 1919 - Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1921 - Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian UN Secretary-General
• 1924 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (d. 1982)
• 1927 - Bart Cummings, Australian race horse trainer
• 1927 - McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1927 - Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1929 - Shirley Crabtree, aka Big Daddy, professional wrestler (d. 1997)
• 1929 - Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player
• 1930 - Charles De Sorgher, Belgian bobsledder
• 1930 - Edward White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
• 1930 - Michael Robbins, British actor (d. 1992)
• 1930 - Monique Mercure, French Canadian actress
• 1933 - Fred Haise, American astronaut
• 1934 - Catherine McGuinness, Irish Supreme Court Justice
• 1934 - Kurt Hamrin, Swedish soccer player
• 1935 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
• 1936 - Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 1990)
• 1936 - Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (d. 2006)
• 1936 - Carey Bell, American blues musician (d. 2007)
• 1937 - Murray Oliver, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1939 - Wendy Carlos, American composer
• 1943 - Peter Norton, American software engineer
• 1945 - Paul Hirsch, American film editor
• 1945 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian First Lady (d. 2005)
• 1947 - Bharathan, Malayalam film director (d. 1998)
• 1947 - P. J. O'Rourke, American writer
• 1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales
• 1949 - James Young, American guitarist (Styx)
• 1949 - Gary Grubbs, American actor
• 1951 - Frankie Banali, American rock drummer
• 1951 - Alec John Such, American musician (Bon Jovi)
• 1951 - Stephen Bishop, American musician
• 1951 - Zhang Yimou, Chinese film director
• 1953 - Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France
• 1953 - Phil Baron, American voice actor
• 1954 - Bernard Hinault, French cyclist
• 1954 - Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State
• 1954 - Yanni, Greek musician & composer
• 1955 - Jack Sikma, American basketball player
• 1957 - Michael J Fitzgerald, American writer
• 1959 - Paul McGann, British actor
• 1960 - Tom Judson, American actor and composer
• 1961 - Antonio Flores, Spanish singer and songwriter (d. 1995)
• 1961 - Elizabeth Keifer, American actress
• 1961 - Gordon Jennison Noice, American actor
• 1961 - D. B. Sweeney, American actor
• 1962 - Harland Williams, Canadian-born actor
• 1962 - Laura San Giacomo, American actress
• 1964 - Bill Hemmer, American television news reporter
• 1964 - Patrick Warburton, American actor
• 1964 - Rev Run, American rapper
• 1966 - Curt Schilling, American baseball player
• 1966 - Petra Roßner, German cyclist
• 1967 - Letitia Dean, British actress
• 1967 - Nina Gordon, American singer
• 1968 - Janine Lindemulder, American porn actress
• 1968 - Serge Postigo, Canadian actor
• 1969 - Butch Walker, recording artist
• 1970 - David Wesley, American basketball player
• 1971 - Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
• 1971 - Marco Leonardi, Italian-Australian actor
• 1972 - Aaron Taylor, American football player
• 1972 - Edyta Górniak, Polish singer
• 1972 - Josh Duhamel, American actor
• 1972 - Martin Pike, Australian rules footballer
• 1972 - Matthew Bloom, American professional wrestler
• 1973 - Dana Snyder, American voice actor
• 1973 - Lawyer Milloy, American football player
• 1973 - Moka Only, Canadian musician
• 1974 - David Moscow, American actor
• 1974 - Matt Cedeño, Cuban-American actor
• 1975 - Faye Tozer, British musician (Steps)
• 1975 - Travis Barker, American musician (Blink-182, +44)
• 1975 - Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American businessman, wine expert
• 1977 - Obie Trice, American rapper
• 1978 - Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player
• 1978 - Michala Banas, New Zealand actress
• 1978 - Xavier Nady, American baseball player
• 1979 - Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer
• 1979 - Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
• 1979 - Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian model and actress
• 1980 - Brock Pierce, American actor
• 1981 - Tom Ferrier, British racing driver
• 1982 - Kyle Orton, American football player (Chicago Bears)
• 1983 - Lil Boosie, American rapper
• 1984 - Lisa De Vanna, Australian female footballer
• 1984 - Marija Šerifović, Serbian singer
• 1985 - Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
• 1989 - Jake Livermore, English footballer
• 1990 - Jessie Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (d. 2008)

In honor of all of us, I will now turn the time over to NOFX. (Watch out...there's a naughty word in there.)

The next President is:

Voting Machines Elect One Of Their Own As President

But I am the Chosen One...

Getting back on the horse

It isn't as easy as it seems like it should be. I simply got out of the habit of writing.

I am working hard to remember.

Flogging myself yet again. =)

A new short story?

Lately, I have been known to sit in front of a softly humming machine, my fingers working furiously.

Writing, you ask hopefully?

Sadly, it is not my laptop that has me riveted.

It is my sewing machine.

Yes, the season of stitching is upon us. For Halloween, I am making a Dorothy costume, an Indiana Jones costume, a fairy costume, and a tinkerbell costume. My son has yet to decide what costume he wants, and then I may churn out something for the Hubby and I so we don't have to recycle the Red Riding Hood / Wolf in Grandma's clothing costumes one more year.

Of course, Christmas is already on my mind and, of course, the small gifts for our neighbors need sewing and the holiday cards need making.

Writing, it seems, is on a back burner again.

I am in absolute love with the new short story that I'm writing. I stumbled across a beautiful piece of art, and the dam broke. Words flowed like they haven't for a long time.

I hope to have it finished soon, and am excited to share it with you.

A great movie trailer