Upon my last day of being 40

[cornerofmadness]

Oddly it didn't even occur to me until late this afternoon that this was my last day to be 40. I wasn't very much bothered by the fact that I'll be 'in my forties' not like I was last year. Turning 40 bothered me a lot, bothered me more when my birthday was so summarily forgotten by everyone, including my mother. It was a blow especially after all the talking I did about it and you know that BIG trip to Vegas.

This year is different. My birthday will be quiet. If I wasn't driving back to Pittsburgh next week I might have driven up to Columbus. Heck I might even be doing the laundry tomorrow, I don't know. Maybe I'll go see the Indy movie. I bought king crab legs and tiramisu for my birthday.

I'm going nowhere this year, not that I often do. I rarely have the moneyor time for a vacation. YEs, I'm off for weeks and I guess that's vacation enough but mostly I'm just doing the same dumb things as I do every day.

I'll leave off cleaning the house tomorrow. I made lots of head way today. That can be my birthday gift to myself. Maybe I'll join that travel group as my birthday gift. Maybe I'll pull out the pictures from my photo albums and scan them in and look at myself over the last few years(or at least the 21st century)

Maybe quiet acceptance is what being in your 40's is all about. That and finding your own paths to joy. Like today, I quit doing everything for two hours and just went outside and sat with my house plants and wind chimes. It was such a beautiful day, windy, occasionally rainy and delightfully cool. I only have two horrid nearly un-sit-uponable plastic chairs that even Roy avoids so like a true redneck, I dragged out my task chair and an ottoman and just sat there and read, feeling the breeze on my face, listening to the Fullmetal Alchemist soundtrack and the wind chimes. It was nice. Roy sat out there too. He was thinking what I was, need more wind chimes.

Just because I'm old, doesn't mean I can't annoy the neighbors.

Comments

[mulzrule.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah! That's what neighbors are for!!!! Happy Birthday!!!!!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

snort thanks

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you

[going-not-gone.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! Happy forties!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you

[anguisel.livejournal.com]

Happy Early Birthday!

Anything you want that I can feasibly give you? Icons, graphics, bunnies?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. cool. Any of those would be cool. I'm still looking for a birthday icon

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

what do you want for your birthday?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

nothing reasonable. I honestly don't know. I have most everything i need (been trying to get friends to give me things like food/tea for the holidays because it eventually leaves the house without more clutter....)

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

Want an ATC or something I've made? I have extra beads I can send, too. Or how about a murder kill people true crime book (that you can donate/give away when you're done)?

Oh, and, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Also, look at my post to see how geeky I really am when it comes to my ATCs. I bet no one has done any microbiology ATCs but me! :D

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i want to go look at the ATC's...

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

40 is NOT old! *snort* Hell yer not even halfway up the hill yet!!!!

I'm 47 and don't consider myself oooold....well okay occasionally I do. But that's only after running across a fully bearded man in the store and suddenly realizing he was one of the CUB SCOUTS I taught First Aid to! MEEEEP! AND he was with his SON, who was married with a kid on the way!

OMFG!!!!! *giggle*

Yeah well if it's any consolation...I spend my birthdays by myself. Eh....take it back, THIS year I spent it by myself. Wasn't so horrible.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I usually spend them by myself being in the middle of summer i just wish i could have had more of a vacation than going to my reunion, as nice as that was

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

Eck....reunions. *shudder* I went to my 5 year reunion, stayed for 5 whole minutes of the 10 year and vowed to never attend another. 30 year one is coming up next year.....and I plan to be FAR away from Missouri by that time.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was a wonderful time. Glad I made it

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

Well I honestly only remember a couple of people from that time, the rest of the memories aren't so pleasant. So I really see no reason to subject myself to those people ever again. If I did...guarandamntee somebody would be on the floor with my fist in their face.

[scribesds.livejournal.com]

Oh, good grief, girl! Forties is not old! At least I hope not, because I don't know what that makes me. I'm in my fifties…

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Like I said to midnightsjane we're getting better with age. Her answer 'like fine wine.'

[scribesds.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! Have a lovely day...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you

[makd.livejournal.com]

Dude: annoying the neighbors is one of the BEST things about getting old. :-)

Happy Birthday!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you and i'll take your word for it. Once that porch gets fixed i'm buying more wind chimes

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Well...I did see something that made noise that would annoy neighbors in a catalogue....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh cool

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Now, if the catalogue didn't get pitched....

[pandoranc.livejournal.com]

wanted to wish you a happy early birthday! You're not getting old, just getting started! :) and like someone else said, neighbors are there to annoy, that's the fun of having them

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you very much. I like the sound of that

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

I do agree that one of the best things about getting older is we're more accepting of ourselves and less likely to give a hoot about what others think. Have a wonderful day tomorrow.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you

and yes it is a nice thing isn't it

[ishte.livejournal.com]

Funny, I didn't know you were younger than me. I mean I knew we were about the same age, but I thought I was the one a few months younger, not the other way around. I think it's highly amusing that at barely even 41 yet, you are old... while I will be 42... (i.e. the meaning of life btw) well not until November, and I'm very young. It's going to be at least another 41 years before I'm old though, so the neighbors will have to make do with being annoyed because I'm eccentric. hahaha

Oh yah, that forgotten on your 40th even after reminding people? must be going around. I finally had to arrange my own birthday party by announcing very bluntly when it was crystal clear that the party I'd been promised had been forgotten, that I did not CARE if anyone else was going to be there, that *I* was going to Akashi to eat sushi and anyone who wanted to be there was welcome. I ended up with about 15 people there with me. It was cool. So what if I had to be act petulant. hahaha... It got me my way didn't it? And I was entitled

Anyway, happy birthday. Go eat Sushi.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I have to drive to Athens to eat Sushi but that's not a bad idea. Seriously, I wasn't expecting friends to remember but at least my own MOTHER should have remembered my 40th birthday.

I suppose whether or not i feel old has to do with the day. Sometimes i feel very young, others I feel quite old.

I thought you were older than me but I didn't know by how much

[anat-astarte.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!! Personally I wouldn't mind a little R&R day all to myself..spa treatment, a good book and movie, maybe get back into those old hobbies I enjoyed so much and left behind for too long, dinner with friends, another dinner with family, and yeah, a travel group sounds great to me too...then again I try to turn a birthday into a week long celebration any way I can! :D

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i've never been one to make all that much of my birthday, mostly just go to dinner, maybe a movie. living here, i won't be able to do either unless I want to go to Bob Evans

I never do

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

Aww, it sounds like a great day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was . THANKS

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be 44 this year. We ain't old, m'friend! No way! I've never felt younger in my life. It's all how you look at things. You need to get out on your porch with your windchimes and cat more often. {{HUGS}}

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I do need to do that. I need porch furniture. I have to plastic chairs that I can barely squeeze my big butt into...and the fear that the porch may collaspe on me at any moment...

but yeah mostly i don't feel too old

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Do you have a Big Lots around there? They had these big, comfy-looking (admittedly plastic, but still) porch chairs down here at ours, I think around $15 apiece.

Good! *g*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

we don't and they don't

at least none that will fit in a honda civic

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. It was a thought! I'd ship you one but the box would be huge. *g*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

my parents are bringing some down but the date keeps geting pushed back

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

Belated birthday greetings!

I haven't adjusted well to being in my 40s...I don't feel that old, dammit. :-)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks

and no, neither do I.

my parents aren't thrilled about it either since they don't feel old enough to have a 40 year old baby