Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for October 23, 2009

Happy Birthday to you. I’ll be 50 in December.

Belated Happy yesterday Fairportfan2 many more .

19 mouths and a day I’ll , by the grace , step over that threshold .

My 40th was the big one , it’s been a blur sense then .

The old timers would say “at 40 , half your life is in the books” .

Happy belated birthday Fairportfan2! Ronshua, you’re scaring me. My 40th will be in December (celebrating at Disney!). Although I will be thrilled if I get another 40.

I got 4-0 coming up too in February next year (many happy returns Fairportfan2) and I don’t know how I’ll look back on it, but for the moment it’s “just another year” to me.

That said, it’s sort of been “a blur” for me since I was 16-17. I don’t recall time “dragging on” since then.

Way to go Fairportfan for reaching such a milestone. My granny used to say, “You better glad if you get to be as old as me!”

I turned 50 in March and I enjoyed that, but 40 was hard. They say everyone has one birthday that really bothers them. For my mom it was 30, she said she cried all day when she turned 30 but after that she was ok. I think it’s ok to grow older if you have an attitude like Val and Joan’s mom, keep learning and trying new things.

Happy Bday to you guys. I have 3 yrs 10 mon. to retirement. 66 is that magic number.

7th decade is fantastic! RE the strip: no one wants to hear about your bunions.

I just hit 45 on Wednesday… oldest I’ve ever been. My dad (71) joked “just wait til you’re 62 and you’ll be fine.” Yeah, sure Dad…

Mom (70) is a lot closer to Evie - have passport, will travel - although she isn’t going anywhere to build anything. Dad’s just happy to get out of bed in the morning.

The other day I realized that I am pushing 60. Somehow being 58 did not register as pushing 60 but 59 sure did.

But on the bright side, In the words of a teen girl I was helping: “No you are younger than your sisters because you do stuff.” This was her response when I tried to explain I was the oldest of the three sisters.

ireg, I too am beginning to push that number, although I’ve got a few to go to get there. Somehow 57 feels MUCH closer though. Previously the one that bothered me was 35, because that theoretically was the “mid-way” mark.

I don’t mind the numbers so much anymore as long as no one says them out loud. But the visuals. Ick. That mirror has betrayed me. Wish I knew who that old broad was.

Happy Belated Birthday Fairportfan!!

If it’s any consolation, from some of the comments I’ve seen, your “writing age” reads to me as mid-40s. I would not have guessed that you are a more accomplished person. ;)

They say you are only as old as you feel.

Boy, that is really bad news. ouch

Happy Birthday Fairportfan!!

I start my seventh decade in January :O(

Bargrove, I can’t be that old!

Fairport fan, that was not nice! Was that really your mom? My mom and I talked on the phone on my 50th birthday and when we said goodbye she said, “Happy 50th birthday” and I thought gak I should be saying that to her!” My how time flies.

If Eve has bunions, they don’t slow her down any!