The Christianville Spirit: 39th Year Transformation Completion

 

The Christianville Spirit

        The Spirit that Encourages Magical Moments

August 20th, 2026 – TCS # 951

Happy New Age to Me, My Readers! As The Date of This Newsletter, I am a Year Older!  I am now 39 Years Old!

Yes, I can’t believe it either! Every Age Year, I tend to look at Various References, like Pop Culture, Movies & TV Shows, Geography, and so on for Things that have My Age Year.

33 was The “Trinity Year”.

34 refers in The One of The Most Classic Christmas Movies, The Miracle of 34th Street,

35 was An Interstate Highway (Interstate 35) that I am Very Familiar with.

36, was 36 Hours which More than 24 Hours (A Whole Day) and Less than 48 Hours (2 Days) as well as a Texas State Highway that crossed Interstate 35.

37, was An Interstate Highway (Interstate 37),

A Lesser-Known Interstate Highway that runs between

 My Home Town of San Antonio and

Coastal Town of Corpus Christi. A Highway that We drove on as Kids.

38, was The 38th Parallel North, which (Technically) is where The Borders of North and South Korea should be as well as

The Legendary Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger being 

The 38th Governor of California! (In His Voice) 

The Govern-Nator of Cali-Four-Nia!

Which Brings us to This Year!

 This Year, My 39th Year.

Honestly, It felt a Little Weird going into 39.

39 is Kind of an Odd Age. It always seems like The Age where At Least, In The Movies that I have seen where if You don’t have Your Stuff Together (Meaning in Life & Romance) by The End of This Age and Going into 40, You are said to have Issues.

That’s not to say, that is True. It is just What I have Seen and Heard.

I was not as Ready to turn 39 compared to Turning 37, It still felt odd to Me.

 I had an Awesome Entrance into My 30s with My Brother surprising me for My 30th Birthday;

Sweden for My 31st Birthday;

32nd was a Much more Toned Down;

33rd was in Quarantine (Thanks to The Old ‘Rona); and

34th was Very Quiet for My Standard.

But, My Mid-33rd to Mid-34th Years are Not Something I want to Remember because A Segment of Higher-than-High Anxiety that has took a While to come down from!

I guess You could say that was My Mid-Life Crisis that Everyone says that They have either in Their 30s or 40s.

But, Now We enter into My 39th Year! 

So, 39 in Reference!

39, like American Interstate 39,

An Interstate Highway that Runs from

Normal, Illinois to Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

(Side Note: For Some Reason I thought that Interstate 39 was The Other Interstate in Wisconsin that Aligned with A US Highway with The Number. Turns out The Referenced Highway is Interstate 41!)

Funny Story,

My Best Friend (At The Time)

Steven from High School

Once Invited Me to go with Wisconsin to His Lake House

I did not go, but We would have Driven This Road!

I did not Know This Before but,

Kind of An Interesting Geographical Reference

39 is The International Calling Code 

for Italy (I) and Vatican City

Usually, It would be look like (+39) and

Then, Area Code and Number.

Sort of like How We used to Dial (+1) before The Number to call Long Distance back in The Day!

And, I did not Realize This Musical Reference but

39 is also, A Song by Queen

And, Finally, In Numerology, The Number 3 and 9 equal 12;

which Means Wholeness and Transformation.

Meanwhile, 39 as a Whole means (“Completion”).

It makes me Wonder, What Kind of Transformation and Completion am I looking at? My Professional Life? (Perhaps)

My Family Life? (Positive Transformation! But, Yeah) and, My “Grand Romantic Storyline” Life? (Oh Yes Please!).

I Guess We shall see What’s Ahead of

This Highway of Age 39. Definitely NOT going to Normal!

So, Here’s to Hoping for (Clearing Throat) Believing for

“Transformative Year of Completion”!

Anyway, Onto This Newsletter, I am going to Rerun a Newsletter that explains a Different View about Birthdays. Or As My Mom and I refer to It as “Mother’s Day of Birthing”! Because, After All, Your Mom did give Birth to You on Your Birthday. It sounds a Little Strange but, It is True. That might be Why Your Mom wants to Celebrate Your Birthday The Best that She can! Because She did it!

So, Happy 39th Birthday to Me and

Happy 39th “Mother’s Day of Birthing” to My Mom!

This Newsletter was Originally Written on

August 9th of 2017 (Refer to Newsletter 556) 

Happy Birthday Week to Me, My Readers! Yes, Folks! This Week is what I refer to as “My Birthday Week”. Why Celebrate Just a Day when You can celebrate the Entire Month and Entire Week of Your Birthday? Genius Right? I would believe so! It is much more Fun that way. I still can not believe that I am turning 30 Years Old This Week. It just baffles me! This, However is the Last Newsletter of My 29th Year! I had a Really Great 29th Newsletter. I went to Spain and Spoke in front of PTLS Family Members; I went on a Cruise with A PTLS Family Member without My Mom, The First Trip I have done without Family of Mine since, like 5th Grade (1998). I have grown up a lot in My 29th Year. So, Adios to My 29th Year! So, This Birthday Newsletter is going to be a Little Different. Less than Traditional. So, Something that Most People don’t think about, Your Birthday is not just Your Birthday, It is also for Your Mom. Your Mom?! You would say. “It’s MY Birthday, not Hers!”. But, Here is the Thing, We would not be here without Our Moms. Our Moms giving birth to us. My Mom and I were talking about it one Night and I asked her, “What would You call the day of My Birth?”. “Mother’s Day of Birthing” and Everyone has one. In Other Words, In a way, Your Birthday is mainly about You but, also about Your Mom. So, What about Your Mom? Well, in Honor of Her, My Mom is Awesome! The Thing is about Your Mom is that You don’t realize how much She does for You from Birth to Now. I Thank My Mom for that Every Day and not just in a “Thanks Mom for Dinner” kind of way. After all, She birthed me, She burped me, She cuddled me, She took care of me, and Sent me to School among Many, Many Things. She does a lot too! She does a lot of Work (that is often Unseen, as to How hard she works) and Representation of not only Myself but, My Special Needs of Potocki-Lupski Syndrome (or PTLS for Short). That Alone deserves an Award! She does a lot of Work for Furthering PTLS and does not Get Paid (Which She should, just My Bias here!) and Eventually Will be! She tells me that She knew I had Something Special about Me and that I was Unique from The Minute that I was Born! From The Moment that She felt Everything giving Birth to Me, She knew She was going to be in for Quite a Ride! Not in the Very Least a Typical Up and Down Ride! How about an Up, Down, Upside Down, and Spinning Ride?! and, Quite a Ride that She has ridden up to Now and Will continue to Ride. Now, Imagine this Whole Ride of PTLS, Working Hard Unseen, and Raising Him Up. Comes to Her Oldest Son turning 30 Years Old on Friday! That is just Cray-Cray! I am not a Gift Receiving kind of Person (It is not My First Love Language), I would rather feel Love with Quality of Time. I would rather Celebrate The People that I know and Love as My Gift. So, that is My Gift to You. All in all, I Thank You to My Readers for Being in My Life. And, I thank My Mom for Birthing Me for You to be in My Life! 

Thanks for Reading The Christianville Spirit. Thank You for Being My Lifetime Gift.

The Christianville Spirit: School Days, Overwhelming Days (Back to School Special!)

               

                    The Christianville Spirit 

        The Spirit that Encourages Magical Moments

August 5th, 2026 – TCS # 950

Happy August, My Readers! Yes, Folks! It is that time of Year! Not only is it My Birthday next week, My 39th actually. 

But, Something that comes with being an August Baby. 

It is Back to School Time! For Those in The US, 

We start a New Grade in August, where as in places like Australia, 

A New Grade starts in January or somewhere near that. 

Anyway, Funny Thing about being born in August, 

You learn that School always starts either

 before, on, or after My Birthday. 

I actually met My Best Friend, Karleen on The First Day of School, going into 10th Grade of High School on My Birthday in 2003. 

It will be 24 Years since I met Her This Year! 

So, To Those Who are Excited about Going Back to School, because I know that PTLSers Enjoy Routine, Therefore are Excited about going back to School, 

To You, I wish You a Happy August!

So, On to My Newsletter!

So, It has been Many Years, Actually, Believe it or not,

 Next Year of 2027 will be 20 Years since High School 

(and, By “High School”, In This Case & Context, 

It will be 20 Years since I graduated High School! 

I know! It’s Crazy Thinking about That!)

and I still from Time to Time have Dreams like I am still in School. 

Truth be Told, In Life after School, It is Hard to imagine being out in The Real World because School was All We Knew at The Time. Every Time I see Everyone’s Back to School Pictures, I am reminded how it felt to have a Routine going to School everyday and I know that for PTLSers, Routine is Very Important to Us! Because We are Very Routine oriented. So, Because It is Time for Your PTLSer to go back to School and get back into Their School Routine, I am re-running a Newsletter about going back to School and How Important Routine is.  Enjoy!

This Newsletter was originally written on 

August 23rd of 2017 (Refer to Newsletter 558)

 

Welcome Back to School, My Readers! Okay, actually, Your Children are probably have already been told that or will be told that! Yes, It is Back to School Time! The Time when Everyone, young and old go back to School. I guess You could consider This Newsletter, School. Because I teach you things that You may not even think about. How School is that?! Get It? Just figured that I would make a Joke for those actually Going to School, both Kids and Young Adults. Young Adults can go to School too via College. Anyway, on to This Week’s Newsletter! So, Speaking of School, Going back to School means at least for us, PTLSers, that We finally get into a Nice Routine. I remember I did. I obviously talk about The Importance of Routine in My Newsletters a lot. Routine is Very Important to us PTLSers. But, Here is something that I am not sure that I have talked about or have only mentioned in Brief. Usually, I mention it at The End of an Exciting Event in My Life that I tell you. Or It is in the Newsletter after. So, What Am I talking about? Well, Like I said Routine is Important but, being Human and having Out-of-Routine Events happen. That is a Given. Like a Vacation, A Family Road Trip, A Cruise, Someone coming to Visit, or Some Kind of Adjustment to Our Routine. The Thing that makes it easier if It is Predictable, but Again, that does not happen. I am reminded of a Question of One of The PTLS Member’s Boyfriend asked me at The Conference, Being that You need Routine, How do You come down from a Routine-Changing Event? Usually, It involves what I call a Recovery from Whatever Event. My Theory is that My Recovery comes from a lot of different factors like How Big is The Event? Lots of People or a Group of People; How Much of a Difference in Routine am I dealing with? For The PTLS Conference, It was 4 Days. For My Cruise, It was a Week but, with Somewhat of a Different Routine than My Own. and, Probably, The Biggest Factor, What is The Craziness Level in This? 10 being Lots of Activity and/or Distress (or Both) or 0 being I am going out to Dinner with Friends to a Familiar Restaurant. So, How do I recover from Something like a PTLS Conference? So, once The Event ends, I describe it as Driving Very Fast on a Highway and all of a sudden, There is Nothing pushing you, Nothing left to do except Slow Down and go back to Your Routine. To Me, that basically means, that I have to Literally Slam on My Brakes and that usually causes me to Need Time to Calm Down or What I call, “Coming Down” (In Kids, It would be called a Meltdown, only They cry, scream, and kick their legs) after all The Excitement. I have one after Every Big Event that I go to. What I mean is that I am Tired Physically and Mentally. I am Overwhelmed.

Sometimes, My Excitement gets to be Too Much for Me to Handle before My Big Event is over, There have been numerous times when that happens. Two Times that I really remember, Once while at Disney World when I was Kid and Another when We were driving to a PTLS Member’s House during The Stockholm and London Trip.  

After I have My “Coming Down” and Assess all of My Emotions, and Is It normal that I am having them. Then, I get into My Routine as much as I can but, Also It still takes a while to Digest, depending on The Size of The Event. PTLS Conferences (Refer to Any PTLS Conference Newsletter), Great Wolf Lodge (Refer to “Great Wolf Lodge” Newsletter), My Cruise with PTLS (Refer to “Cruise of a Lifetime” Newsletter), It took anywhere from a Week to Week and a Half to Recover. It does help to talk to My Mom about Everything, both exciting (which comes first) and then Emotional, It also helps to Listen to Soft Music (Back when The Great Wolf Lodge thing happened, I listened a Ukulele version of The New Zealand National Anthem. It is Beautiful, I recommend it!), I Take a Nap, or Watch a YouTuber driving on The Road and Listen to sounds of The Road and Bridges (I like Bridges more because They make a Better Sound). Just some Quiet Time with Little to No Activity is all I need. But, I know that all of Us PTLSers have the Same Needs like This, so I am not Alone. Only the Little Kids cannot express this well for a Parent to know what is going on, so The Parent complains of The Child’s Meltdown, not really understanding what is going on. This happened to Me when I was Little, but Good Thing, My Mom knew what to do and Still knows My Facial Expressions which She knows when I am Overwhelmed and Ready for a “Come Down”. When I was Younger, The Teachers could always tell when I had spent the Weekend with My Dad because of The Lack of Routine and Too Much Stimulation, I had My “Come Downs” Monday Mornings at School and They said, I could not focus. I would rock back and forth, hum, and Stim More intensely, and The Teachers had a Problem with getting me to re-focus. But, They knew that I would be Okay in a Day or Two and Back to My Old Self. All in all, Going back to School means a lot of Excitement both Good and Bad, We PTLSers love School, Love to watch The Kids, Just have respect for Our Need to withdraw to “Come Down”. 

 
Thanks For Reading The Christianville Spirit. Celebrate going Back to School, Balanced with Quiet Time.