I''m 40. Just saying.
 

40? really? I just ain't feeling it.... Do I have to get the bifocals today?

I got my first pair at 45, but my eye doctor told me that my eyes seem to be aging faster than normal.

I hate glasses, i wear contact lenses.

But 40? Really? I feel 25.

Does that make you a cougar now?

40 the new 25. Im coming up to 50 and that is weird.

Equation: 40 + female=cougar

I reckon that's leaving a variable or two out of the equation.

well beest is still 39.....

does nobody feel the need to correct my double apostrophe? :lol:

No bifocals. Get yourself a purple outfit and a big red hat!

I don't feel my age either. The 40s are the BEST.

Happy Birthday! :celebrat:

no wai! no hats :lol: thanks

40s for me = my dreams are all dead and I'm too old to make new ones.

:comfort:

40s are as hard as any other decade, I suppose, but when you get to this age you should know yourself pretty well by now. I don't expect that I'll ever change into a domestic goddess, that clothes won't lie around the floor, that I'll become less emotional and more driven, that I won't cry when people win a bunch of money on a game show (heheeee...I'm just so damn happy for them), that I'll be a great friend and daughter and sister who remembers to send cards or pick up the phone....

The beauty of it I've found myself saying "sure, I can work on improving things and doing better, but I am just human me. I'm not human him or human her...I'm just me." Struggling along as we all do, but liking myself much better than I did when I was so much younger.

It's empowering!

Shawnee is wise. But I can still dream of being a domestic goddess, can't I? (while not giving up any other aspect of my busy life) :lol: My birthday gift to myself was supposed to be getting my house neat and tidy and clean. I failed. You can't even tell I tried. But I know I tried, and I know it's better. Sorta. Ah well. My friend just took me out for breakfast. I realised I was hungover. Start as you mean to go on..... :D

that's a big one! congratulations, and many happy returns of the day.

thanks

Happy Birthday Monster! The 40's are great! (The first three years anyway.)

Happy birthday monster! The best is yet to come!

it gets better from here. ;)

I was wondering....;)

At 40, you're not even half way yet, but congrat's on making it this far.
Still time for doing or finishing what you wanted when you were a 20-something.
After all it's really true that... it gets better

Happy Birthday, Monnie, you young thing you

Maybe for her birthday, we could all call her "monster" and avoid that other name.

Yeah, and stay off her damn lawn!

I'm 42. No bifocals yet. Welcome to the forties. :D

:celebrat::celebrat:

Happy Birthday Monster. The good news is that you will always feel 25. It's actually been proven that regardless of a person's actual age they always think of themselves as being in their early 20s.

hehe.

Pico, you were wondering, huh? Now why would that be? I rarely get hungover. That's not to say I rarely drink, just that sometimes I get slack on my post-drinking protocol. ;)

It seems maybe some people think my passion about the it gets better campaign is out of character. I can assure you it's not. I just save it for certain topics I feel very strongly about. This happens to be one.

Glatt, thanks.

It started getting better the minute I stopped trying to be who other people felt I should be sometime during high school, and yes it's still getting better. That's why I'm celebrating 40, not mourning it. Plenty more things to do with my life and plenty I've done. I've spent the last decade getting to know the States (visiting 37 of them) Now maybe I'll spend the next 10 improving them? :lol: :p:

I kinda liked my 30s. Now i have a whole nother decade to play with. Of course then I'll be 50.... :eek: :lol:

Should we wish you a happy birthday here or over in the birthday thread? Oh, what the heck...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! :D It's ur birthday, have fun, not clean the house. :p: Btw, I felt old at 40...doh, that's this year. :rolleyes: My body, not my spirit that is. :neutral:

That's cool Monster, but it's not why I wondered. I didn't think twice about the passion you exhibited, I've seen you do it before in other areas. Must have been something in the wording in one of your posts. No biggie.

everywhere. Let's party all over the whole board..... :D

Lordy lordy monster's forty.

the double apostrophes maybe? :lol: I'm usually drinking a beer of an evening. I'm rarely drunk, but I can't type sober.....

Oh God, the body. It really lets you down once you get past 45. It's a challenge not letting it sink that 'young-at-heart spirit.

A few years back I got a birthday party invite using those words. It was more recently I realized they were supposed to sound the same except for the first letter! About the time I realized object in the mirror are closer than they appear was also a rhyme. :rolleyes:

Well I'm happy to report that I did not wake up this morning to find that I needed to tuck my tits into my waitband. I've done nect to no exercise this week though and my legs are itching for a bike ride or run, but it's hot and sticky today and I have other stuff i really should get done. like returning the tables to the pool for the swim meet tonight. Somehow this week blew by and all of a sudden they're panicking and looking for the tables.

I don't quite understand this Britism, using of like that. Jake Thackray uses it in "She also talks without stopping to me in our bed of a night;"

Can you 'splain me it?

nope :) Is it a Britishism?

maybe it means in the time belonging to the evening?

ICUB4T ... A-OK!

In our small-town paper there's always a "Lordy Lordy Look Who's 40." An old friend (may he RIP) wanted to put one in at Christmas, with a pic of Jebus, and write "Forty Forty Look Who's Lordy."

Well, you and Jake Thackray are the only people who I've heard use it.

Around here (practically New England) There are some odd regionalsims like
"He's over to so and so's house" instead of "He's over at so and so's house"

and the disturbing use of "Heighth" rather than "Height"

that is disturbing

Weird. The same guy I just posted about up yonder would call the house for my husband and say "Is ____ to home?" He did it as a joke, he didn't usually say that.

The forties are the best, enjoy! :thumb:

Women. Their 40s. Two words: sexual prime.

Happy birthday, monster! I'll take those thirties you just got done with if you don't mind, I don't need to waste money on brand new ones.

Sure thing, they're pretty well worn, though.....

I'll second that.



In... in a little while. Just give me a few minutes...:p:

Secret message decoded:

:lol:

Congrats! live now. (and enjoy prime time)

Wecome back, warch. :notworthy

thanks. I'm feeling good :)

welcome back, warch!

Missed youse guys! Lifting my virtual (but ironically quite hot and real) cup of coffee to toast the cellar and the happy 40somethin's!

Wait til you hit the 50's!

Hey Warch, long time no post. How's tricks?

Doing well and wish you and the little feet all the best.

I'm going 40 next year and it seems that I don't feel like I'm 40. I feel like I'm still in my teen years..

scuse me, do I detect a little hijacking here? :p: