26 is a good number

It is the 13th even number.
It is the sum of the 5th, 6th, and 7th Fibonacci numbers. (5+8+13)
It is the only number to be directly between a square and a cube. (25, 27)
The human foot has 26 bones.
The English alphabet has 26 letters.
A carefree wonder rose has 26 petals and a mango spray plant has 26 leaves.
The atomic number of Iron is 26. (I regularly take Ferrous sulfate vitamins because of my family's blood illness history)
The error of Georgian calendar per solar year is 26 seconds.
Yahweh, the Hebrew name for God or Jehovah, is expressed as a Tetragrammaton of Hebrew letters Yod, Heh, Vau, Heh or YHWH = 10 + 5 +6 + 5 (I didn't get this one.)

26 is my waistline (to-be)

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At age 26:

Rembrandt (1606-1669), paints The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632)
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), publishes 5 papers in Annalen der Physik (1905) on the photoelectric effect, statistical mechanics, Brownian motion, special theory of relativity, and relationship between matter & energy: E=mc2
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
Margaret Mead (1901-1978), anthropologist, publishes Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)
Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999) sets baseball record by hitting safely in 56 consecutive games (1941)
Grace Kelly (1929-1982) stars in Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Country Girl (1954)
Charles Revson (1906-1975) starts his own cosmetic company, Revlon, Inc. with $300 (1962)
Barbra Streisand (b. 1942) wins Best Actress Oscar for her first film Funny Girl (1968)

Diosa4ever (1980-present) still taking her MA degree; misses her family, friends, paeng, paeng's family, UP, isaw, tukneneng, sisig, tilapia, palabok, SM City, Chickenjoy, billiards, tricycles, eat bulaga, and many more; dreams of reading academic paper(s) in conference(s); plans to write a linguistic textbook or workbook featuring the beautiful Philippine languages (probably not in the next two years)

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I turn 26 today, another birthday away from home.
Meron bang malungkot na birthday song?

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facts from http://www.wisdomportal.com/Numbers/26.html