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3/18/2004 7:45:15 AM
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benne
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Okay, I`m 52 today and wondering where the years have gone. I realize I`m not totally decrepit but it`s all gone so fast. I`m not down, just a little stunned to realize I`m really not a kid anymore. Does this mean I can`t wear the surf knits in FCEK to the Wool Festival? lol Funny, I still feel like a kid (and probably act like one most of the time too.} I think I`ll take some solace from my CCD kids who told me I`d always be young no matter how old I got. I`m taking that as the supreme compliment coming from teenagers instead of a mark of immaturity. ha!
Benne, who thinks this getting old business is a cosmic dirty trick
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3/18/2004 7:56:06 AM
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acb
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Happy Birthday, Benne! It`s my baby brother`s birthday today too. Looking at your picture, and knowing you`re a rocker from way back, I`m reminded of Rod Stewart`s line, "you wear it well" - your beauty transcends your years, and your eyes reflect your wisdom - you`re a force to be reckoned with!
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3/18/2004 8:20:33 AM
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Les
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Most of the time, when someone asks me how old I am, I can`t remember!! I just know that this year I turn 50. But it`s just a number, isn`t it! When writing my bio, I first wrote that I was 43 then had to correct it!!! What happened there I wonder!!
I`d love to invite you to our get-away this weekend at Bev`s mom`s house. We could pick you up at airport in Calgary. (home of the "Greatest Show on Earth" the Calgary Stampede, ya know!) Bev and I turn 50 this yr., another is 43, aonther is in her late 30`s and the last just turned 30 (this is really funny, it turns out that I went to the same school as her MOM who was a grade behind me!!!!). Activities are as mentioned in a prev. post!!
As for maturity, who`s that for!!
Lesley - who will propose another toast - to your birthday
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3/18/2004 8:37:49 AM
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ScullyKnits
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Happy Birthday. I`d say 52 is just getting started. And yes of course you can wear the FCEK surf knits. I think its rather a relief not to be a kid anymore. Kids are full of confusion, angst, and are ususally broke. We, on the other hand, can afford nice wool.
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3/18/2004 8:56:39 AM
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ecasey
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First of all, Happy Birthday!
Second, you certainly do not look 52, and nor does Les look 49. I think you all must sleep in vinegar! LOL
Third, my DH is 52 - and not only does he not look his age either (Theresa will confirm that), but he is definitely younger than me, and I`m 27! LOL
It`s all about your attitude, isn`t it? There`s a Psychiatrist at DH`s job who is younger than him, but is ancient. When DH started the job they sent paperwork for him to fill out again because they thought the date of birth had been entered wrongly - they assumed he was in his mid-thirties. AND there`s a 19 year-old intern there who has a crush on him, heeheehee!
There have been studies done that show that your biological age and actual age aren`t necesarily related - your body can be older or younger than you actually are, depending on genetics, lifestyle, etc.
I also think that it`s either something you`re pre-occupied with, or you`re not. DH isn`t particularly - I am though. Not to make you sick, but I`m not a little concerned at the passage of time at the age of 27. Seriously - I was one of those people who never actually believed they would get any older. I used to joke about having wrinkles - now I`m getting them I can`t anymore. My friends and I used to mess around with hair colour because it was fun, not a necessity - I was aghast to see something glinting silver under the light in the bathroom a few months ago and realise that it was a grey hair! I thought I`d be more settled and sure of myself by this age, and know what I wanted - but I`m still as clueless as I was when I was a teenager! The knowledge that time is passing is cause for concern no matter what your age :-(
LOL
Eileen.
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the STARS!" (Oscar Wilde)
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3/18/2004 9:11:59 AM
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benne
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Thank you all for the birthday wishes. They really brightened my day. Ann, that`s one of the nicest birthday wishes I`ve ever had. I`ve found there`s a rock and roll song for every occasion.:} Happy BD to your baby brother. We Pisces are a complicated lot aren`t we? Les, if I could get packed I`d be on that plane pronto! Maturity is way overrated but good wine isn`t.:} Christina, you`re right, no way I`d want to go back and be a kid in years again. The heat`s off. Except for trying to get all that beautiful wool I can now afford knitted up!lol
Benne
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3/18/2004 10:09:46 AM
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MacChick
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Well, I agree... you do NOT look anywhere near your age. And although we aren`t supposed to care that much about looks, people who look young for their age usually ARE, physically, young for their age.
My Dad is 70 and runs 6 miles a day and competes in 10K roadraces every weekend... and he does not look anywhere remotely near 70. And his Mom... don`t even know how old she is... had 12 kids and MANY grandkids... and can remember the the first, last, middle names and birthdates of every grandchild, great-grandchild, and great-great grandchild... the woman`s mind is amazing, and her body, though not very active anymore, somehow keeps on going like the energizer bunny...she is nowhere near the end of her time here.
A mere child in her 50`s who only looks to be in her 30`s does not get to call herself "old." Got it?
Oh, and, for what it`s worth... my daughter, when looking at the bios page with me, identified you as a "young adult." In her terminology, that means somebody who is older than 21, but not yet a "grown-up"... which, I guess would be somewhere in their 30`s (not sure exactly where her definitions came from, but I just listen, I don`t argue!). So you would have to act very stern and no-nonsense to get respect from a bunch of pre-schoolers, because they wouldn`t think you are a full-fledged grown-up yet.
Oh, And on that Cher thing... (I did try to answer this before, but got disconnected in the midst of posting)... I was honestly referring to the Cher of the Sonny and Cher show years, not the "Turn Back Time" Cher.
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3/18/2004 10:30:48 AM
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ecasey
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I agree - you look like the nice soft-featured hippie-chick Cher - not the drag queen too-much-plastic-surgery-and-not-enough-clothing Cher!
I held off saying you look like Cher because I didn`t want you to think I was insulting you! LOL
Eileen.
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the STARS!" (Oscar Wilde)
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3/18/2004 11:28:17 AM
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I think every woman who has ever seen the estimable Eleanor Roosevelt has fears that she will wake up one morning, look in the mirror, and..... but you actually have to buy those dowdy shoes and clothes and put them on voluntarily! So, in a certain sense, none of us are going to get "old" the way people used to think of it. I am sure that by the standards of my mother`s youth I am supposed to be wearing matronly clothes and staying in the backgrond of my son and his wife`s lives by now, but instead my son is 11 and DH and are are making a last-ditch effort for a smaller sibling for him. Age just isn`t what it used to be...you will really be laughing at this when you turn 104!
Besides, if age is in the heart and soul and mind then you are that perfect age that we will all get to be when the Earth is perfected - too old for colic, too young for arthritis, too young to worry, too old to care, old enough to drink and old enough to drive but too old to drink-and-drive - AND able to afford the good yarn.
Besides, if we give up know, what does do Eileen and MacChicklet and Princess Lily-Boo have to look forward to?
Theresa
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3/18/2004 11:37:10 AM
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benne
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Eileen and MacChick,
Thanks, you girls really know how to boost a girl`s ego. DH accuses me of having a Dorian Gray painting in the attic. Not sure I think that`s a compliment. ;} I think our attitudes are reflected in our faces and that`s why wrinkles don`t scare me. If our faces are the road map to our lives I want to look like I`ve gotten off the interstate a time or two. lol I don`t understand all the people getting botox injections every six months at the cost of $3-400 a pop. What`s the matter with them, they could be buying yarn! Ha
It`s official, I adopting MacChicklet! She looks like you MacChick, and I love that photo of you two. Two lovely, smart ladies. If she get tired of the desert send her to me in lush, green Tennessee. I`ll have her talking like a hick in no time and riding on the back of the Harley with DH. I can`t wait to corrupt your Irish accent Eileen. :}
I`ve been told I looked like Cher before. I think it`s the hair and bone structure. Lord knows that`s where the resemblance ends, thank goodness. I never wear my garter belt aboard ship. LOL
Benne
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3/18/2004 1:25:04 PM
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jeanflores
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First off... HAPPY BDAY!!! CELEBRATE!! BE HAPPY!! BE PROUD!!!
Secondly... it`s getting scary how much we have in common! lol. I also teach CCD!
Happy Birthday Lady! Would you really want to be a kid again?! You couldn`t pay me! lol.
Peace,
Jean
Ansbach, Germany
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3/18/2004 1:50:26 PM
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Patricia
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A very happy birthday to you Benne! I too wonder where the years have gone,but it is just a number, right? I am thankful for my health and an active,open mind. Today is my future DDIL`s birthday too.
I went to see an orthopedic doctor a few months ago as I had twisted my knee and I was fearful that I had done permanent damage to it. The doctor just seemed so very young to me. Well he had me lay on the table and he took my foot and raised my leg up, and as he raised it he said does that hurt and I said no so he kept raising it and ended up with my knee on my nose still asking if it hurt and it did not! He lowered my leg and stood there shaking his head and he said I can`t beleive it, I`ve seen teen aged cheer-leaders less flexable than you! Your knee is fine and keep doing whatever you are doing. Ah, but it did not end there, he went out and got an associate and asked me if he could show him how flexable I was and these 2 very young doctors stood there in awe of a 54 year old`s flexability!! Man did I feel good when I left. Oh, and my knee is fine too!
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3/18/2004 2:35:24 PM
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bets
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Oh Benne, get down with your bad self! (Roll on Rose of Cimmarron!) Here`s a set of lyrics from the late 70s...I think it fits!
Starship (with Grace Slick, whose drug habits SHOW!)
Take Your Time
I`m gonna make one hour in into
just a few minutes
I`m gonna get two days for the price of one
There`s a one word rhyme
and that`s called living
There`s a one word love
means plenty of giving
I`m gonna give it `til I`m done
but everybody keeps telling me to
take it easy,
but time doesn`t sit down and wait
while I`m trying to get it done....
but you`re not me, thank God
you can take your time slowly
makes me feel good just to watch
you lie down and have your fun
Take your time
take your time
and I`ll take my own time
(repeats 2x)
I can take it slowly or I can keep
runnin` on....runnin` on
When I put one foot in front of
the other
To me that doesn`t mean walk that
means run
I always want to start the race
before the gates open
I always want to start the race
before I hear the sound
of the gun
but everybody keeps tellin` me to
take it easy
But time doesn`t sit down and wait
while I`m trying to get it done
but you`re not me, thank God
you can take your time slowly
makes me feel good just to watch
you lie down and have your fun
Take your time
take your time
and I`ll take my own time
(repeat 6x)
You say it`ll take a you year
I say it`ll just take me a second
but there`s room for both of us
just open the room
you know a year of time sees so
many changes
and the speed of light in the black
of night
makes a full moon...
Happy Birthday B2!
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3/18/2004 2:57:56 PM
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benne
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Bets, you wild child, you know one when you see one. Oh yeah, Miss Grace, one of the original bad girls. Man, could that girl wail. I`ve been known to kick out the stops but I`m starting to find I`m fitting Pat`s list above more and more. lol
Thanks Bets. Like another one of my heroes, ladies and gentlemen, Miss Tina Turner, you`re simply the best! I gotta ask, do you have those lyrics memorized from hours of singing along? My guess is yes, those and many more. :}
Benne
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3/18/2004 4:01:42 PM
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bets
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Darlin` wake up and smell the millenium! I did a "shift copy" for all those lyrics!
It`s all good, and your birthday is MUCH happier, thanks to your knitting buddies!
B
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3/18/2004 4:17:35 PM
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I have to chime in on the happy birthday wish!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I gotta say I turned 40 last october and after the initial harassing by my dh and kids (they gave me prune juice and hair coloring as a gag gift) I don`t mind the big 40. Now that the kids are bigger I can finally do things for myself that I have put off. So I hope that when I hit the big 50 I have the same great attitude they you all do.
judy
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3/18/2004 4:40:28 PM
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Guest
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Hey Benne
Happy Birthday !!
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And just like I said to my son when he suddenly realize that one day his mommy will be an old lady as well (we live in a neighbourhood with many retired, very nice people): people don`t get older, they just get better and more loveable !! You have to grow to get more appreaciated and to appreciate more what is surrounding you !
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3/18/2004 4:57:13 PM
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Guest
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Happy Birthday Benne!
Several years ago I was having lunch with a woman attorney in Rochester, who is a friend. We were discussing our lives, and I mentioned that I didn`t think I`d really started growing up until after I was 40.
She gave me an incredulous look, and then said, "Stop bragging. I was over 50..."
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3/18/2004 9:23:43 PM
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benne
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<Marion, that means we should reach full maturity around 90 or so. Works for me, by then I`ll be in my second childhood. lol
Benne
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3/18/2004 9:30:48 PM
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benne
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Jean, it is getting scary. You have got to get stationed at Fort Drum so I can hatch a trip to NY and see you, Theresa and Eileen all together. That is if I can`t get you back to Clarksville. :} Thank you for the online birthday card. I loved the message.
Benne
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