Crap - I turned 59 today. It's good night Irene as far as I can tell.

[AAO]

I thank you in advance for any birthday wishes. I'm really just venting because I still feel about 25 in my head (both of them), yet I am approaching middle age. Any one that's been in this position before - any suggestions/encouragement is appreciated.

I'll have to read this tomorrow because I took several (5) sleeping pills and am feeling a bit tired.

[elleng]

1. Life goes on,

good and bad.

I've had my share of bad, and am about to become a grandmother for the first time.

Good luck to us all.

[SharonAnn]

110. "It gets better!" No kidding!

[libodem]

2. Beats the alturnative

You only have a year on me. Happy Birthday.

[JEFF9K]

3. It's a good time to become a vegan. ...

Your blood vessels will unclog, and you will become younger.

[roody]

4. Tfb-I turned 60 in August. Discovered

that acupuncture is very pain-relieving, so I can still manage 23 first graders all school day.

[BlueToTheBone]

20. Are you saying that being stabbed

with needles toughens you up to withstand the onslaught of other people's small children? I love it.

[thucythucy]

29. Because of various issues/disabilities

I've spent a fair amount of time in physical therapy.

I always explain why PT works so well. It's like the story of the guy you see slamming his head into a brick wall. You ask him why, and he says, "because it feels so good when I stop." Same with PT.

Joking aside--PT is a wonderful thing, if ever you should need it.

[BlueToTheBone]

50. Oh, I truly believe in PT

I "broke" my back when I was in my 20s and I've spent the rest of my life dealing with it. I've used massage, PT, chiropractic and even accupressure. I was needled once and she stuck it right in the middle of my 3rd eye and I almost came undone...last experience with that! But really, I was just amused by the idea that acupuncture would get one ready and able to handle a bunch of children...one form of torture for another. That's just my sick humor.

[roody]

72. LOL. Seriously, the pain relief is great.

[HereSince1628]

5. Sounds right to me, 59 is the new 25 right?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. Oh yes!

[NuclearDem]

7. Funny, I just turned 25 and feel about 59 in my head.

Glad one of us feels young, and happy birthday!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

59. Nuclear energy will do that... n/t

[NuclearDem]

63. I always thought it was a nice healthy glow.

Plus, I don't get a half-life crisis for another 15,000 years.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

64. Nice =) lol n/t

[AAO]

81. But you're only imagining what 59 is like - it's actually much worse than that.

I however was once 25 and I've been that way ever since (mind and pecker anyway).

[NuclearDem]

85. "Hell is only a word. The reality is much much worse."

[hfojvt]

8. you are "approaching middle age"???

Dude, you passed middle age about 15 years ago.

What you are approaching is retirement. And the only thing I will have to say about retirement is "free at last. Thank God almighty, I am free at last."

[PasadenaTrudy]

22. You beat me to it

Middle age is like late 30s-early 40s...maybe he plans to live past 120!

[whathehell]

31. Well, I would disagree slightly with your definition of "middle age"

I'd say that middle age -- very EARLY middle age -- starts in the late thirties

and goes straight through the fifties.

When you hit 60, you're no long "middle aged"...I hate to say you're "old" -- a "senior citizen", perhaps?

Having hit this point not long ago, the only thing I heard that made me feel just a little bit better was the

saying: "Sixty is the 'youth' of old age"...I was glad to be a "youth" anywhere at that point!

Seriously, though, the Boomers have pretty much re-defined age....I don't look OR feel anything like

I imagined I would at this age.

[woolldog]

70. "Boomers have pretty much re-defined age"

...ah, sure you have, chief.

[whathehell]

79. Yup,

and we know that our juniors, when they're not so "junior" anymore will happily accept our innovation.

[woolldog]

118. ....

[whathehell]

123. and to you, sir..

[AAO]

80. Yes, I do indeed plan to live over 120. I live well, smoke plenty of maryjane, and drink vodka to

keep me in shape. All my relatives live into their 90's and 100's, but they didn't smoke dope and drink only chilled vodka.

I may donate my body to science when I die, sometime around 2077 or so...

[polly7]

9. I would listen to your head! ....

although I'm certain there are many benefits to being 59 (which is a looong way from being old, btw), you're as young as you feel, or even want to feel, imho.

Happy Birthday!!!

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[El_Johns]

10. Getting older is great in most ways. You're less driven by status concerns, more able to see the

big picture, more able to take small difficulties in stride.

If you're reasonably healthy, it's a good time of life.


"Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind...

Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

http://www.bartleby.com/101/536.html

[truedelphi]

61. What beautiful verse.

I am a Capricorn, and (supposedly) we are born feeling old, and often feel younger as time passes.

[LadyHawkAZ]

11. Meh. I just pretend I'm 21

It's easy to do if you avoid all mirrors like the plague.


Happy Birthday!

[AAO]

82. That's my exact problem. No Mirriors, No fearers!

[enough]

12. 59!?! Haha, a spring chicken. Believe me, if you think it's winding down,

you are mistaken! Nothing gets any simpler from there, or any duller. Every day is a surprise, literally.

Happy Birthday!

[Douglas Carpenter]

13. I turned 59 in early November - but I would not believe it - if I did not work it out logically and

mathematically - But 2013 - 1954 does in fact come to 59. Just as events that happened in say 1989 - If I did not do the math - I would insist - that those events happened perhaps four or five year ago - at most, perhaps only three or four years ago - Even seven or eight years would be a stretch.

I recall once having a vivid dream several years ago in which I was in some location - kind of like an airline departure lounge - where people wait to be incarnated on earth - I seemed to be holding what amounted to a boarding pass - similar to an airline boarding pass - as I could look down into a labor and delivery unit where I would soon incarnate. I started to think, "Well, I am going to be down there 70+ years." But from my departure lounge I understood that to be kind of like a three-day weekend trip. Something that would really be no time at all. I cannot make out this time business at all.

[adirondacker]

19. I enjoy myself some Spacetime, from time to time. :)

[villager]

33. Exactly this, you two. It's why I've written time travel fiction, I think....

...because "time" is so entirely a subjective experience, immune to the "logic" of "how long ago" things really were, vs. how it seems they were, how old we actually are, vs. what we feel, etc....

[Douglas Carpenter]

54. for sure the older I get the least significant the amounts of time. Perhaps that is partly because

the difference between the world of a twelve-year-old and the world of twenty-two-year-old is far greater than the difference between the world of a thirty-two-year-old and the world of a forty-two-year-old. But I still don't get it. The most recent job I held prior to my current one - I was there nineteen and a half years. But viscerally speaking I would say BULLSHIT!! There is no possible way I was there longer than five years max. But - the record shows that I started at that former employer on November 21, 1991 and ended my employment there June 13, 2011 - So logic and simple arithmetic does say I was there approximately nineteen and a half years - But it still does not make sense to me. Five years MAX - and even that is a stretch.

[villager]

58. That's it -- the subjective experience of time has nothing to do with the objective one

With kids in your life it's even wackier. And then suddenly: Who are these youngish adults who suddenly showed up in my life!?

[AAO]

83. Maybe you're supposed to die of SIDS in a few days after birth.

[TBF]

14. Happy Birthday -

I'm about a decade younger and my thoughts at birthday time include the following:

1. thank goodness I've made it this far

2. I'm going to buy myself a nice present.

[skamaria]

15. I turned 75 in October.

Sometimes i take a couple of Percosets and pretend i'm still 60.

[RebelOne]

16. I will be 75 in January and I wonder how I got so old so soon.

It seems like yesterday that I turned 50. When I lamented about my age to my daughter, she said that growing old is better than the alternative.

[Skittles]

47. it is poor form to complain about aging

when so many fine people are denied that privilege - yes INDEED

[Pharaoh]

57. Haaa!

they do make you temporarily younger!

[AAO]

84. Is it easier to get percoset scripts when you're 75?

[skamaria]

129. I have a great Doc and a bad hip and knee. Thirty six years of delivering the US Mail.

[etherealtruth]

17. Happy Birthday!

I am right behind you (will be 52 in January)

All that matters is what is in your head

[OffWithTheirHeads]

18. I can't even remember 59 and you know what?

I'm still one tough son of a bitch!

[MuseRider]

21. I turned 60 last Monday you will survive this. Trust me. n/t

[Auntie Bush]

23. FIVE sleeping pills!

That's pretty dangerous! But maybe I'd do the same thing in your situation!

It's a bummer of a decision that I'd not like to make...but I worry about all those sleeping pills.

Hope you wake up tomorrow! lol

Good luck with your operation and recovery.

[AAO]

88. Still alive! Most drugs have little effect on me so I need to take more than most people.

Another proof of my superior body chemistry. I owe it all to the MJ and Vodka (Grey Goose ONLY).

[msedano]

24. 59 is a good age to start thinking about getting old.

ten years ago or so, i read this a couple of times.

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cicero/Cato_Maior_de_Senectute/text*.html

mvs

[RagAss]

25. 59 is the new 59 !

[WheelWalker]

26. So, turn off the light for Irene

and put on some rock 'n roll.

[VanillaRhapsody]

27. "approaching Middle Age"?

I think that train has left the station....did you miss it?

Happy Birthday anyways...

Any day you wake up on the right side of the dirt...is a good day!

[yourout]

28. Turned 50 last Feb and just joined the colonoscopy club. Do I now get a membership card?

Is there a secret handshake I should know about?

[Thor_MN]

41. You got the secret handshake...

As long as they didn't chip any molars, it's all good.

[Adsos Letter]

74. LOL!

[AAO]

89. If you could stuff your arm all they way down through your intestines to your colon

you could have shaken your doctors hand! No start practicing for next time!

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. snap out of it

[spinbaby]

32. I'm about to turn 60

I keep catching glimpses of myself in the mirror and wonder who the old lady is.

[NRaleighLiberal]

34. Happy Birthday!

I turn 58 in a month or so - we are both young!

[No Vested Interest]

35. The fifties are good, the sixties are good, the 70's

not so great.
Have a great next ten years.

P.S. - We all feel about 25 in our heads.
Too bad others who see us only see "old person."

PPS - Careful with those sleeping pills!

[Blue_In_AK]

36. I'm 67, and I can tell you, it's not so bad.

Keep a good attitude, take care of yourself physically, and look forward, not back. 60 is the new 40.

[silverweb]

42. Amen!

[Skittles]

37. you're 59 and approaching middleage?

will you live to be 150?

[seabeyond]

44. i was thinkin too, but didnt want to be a debbiedowner. lmao. nt

[Skittles]

51. aw, AAO is a cheesehead

there's the explanation right there

[DesertFlower]

38. i turned 72 in october. i don't look it or think

like a 72 year old, but my aching bones tell me different.

[pipi_k]

39. Just

Turned 61 in October

I would trade for being 50 again


Oh, and you know what really sucks?

It's when your KIDS complain about being old

[Skittles]

52. you want I should kick some complaining kid ass, pipi_k?

LEMME AT THEM!!!

[pipi_k]

100. I know, huh?

I had a fit of laughter the day my son, at the age of 30, told me how disturbed he was that the younger guys where he worked were calling him "Sir". He's 43 now, so I imagine he's gotten used to it.

Then there was my daughter (41) who announced that she was going to start yanking out all her gray hairs.

I told her to go ahead, but I'm leaving mine in, and not even dyeing them because they look rather nice in contrast to my ashy colored hair.

My mom, OTOH, will be 80 next year and still acts like she's a teenager. It tires me out just listening to all the stuff she does.

[AAO]

90. Billy: I feel so old! Mom: What does that make me, a mummy?

[pipi_k]

101. Hah! Or maybe

a Billy Mumy!

[AAO]

104. Just don't let this guy in!

[silverweb]

40. Except for the additional aches & pains...

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]...it's only your mental age that counts, anyway.

Try this quiz for fun: http://mymentalage.com/

I'm chronologically 65, but tested as 37 mentally... the same age I was when my daughter was born. I always did tell her that she kept me young, but now it seems she actually stopped me from aging mentally.



The best thing you can do is keep a sense of humor throughout life's erratic changes. We all experience them and they aren't going away, so we might as well laugh them off as much as possible.

We're all just living in an awesome hologram anyway, right?

[Blue_In_AK]

68. I got 41 on that test.

That made me smile.

[silverweb]

69. There you go!

[AAO]

99. I misunderestimated! I took the test and I'm really 32! I didn't think I was that mature!

I guess we all mellow a bit as we get older.

[silverweb]

114. Mellow, brighten, lighten...

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I'm sure there are psychosociological explanations for it and not everyone enjoys it in the same way. Enjoy!

[Walk away]

43. Next week for me! I actually lost track and thought I would be sixty...

but that fresh hell can wait until next year!

[Skip Intro]

45. Little TMI, but you're as young as you feel. And 59 ain't old.

Not that there's anything wrong with being old.

Happy Birthday. Enjoy your 60's. Enjoy your life.

Time spent on labels and which apply and which don't is time wasted, imho.

[cliffordu]

46. Hang in there, baby. It can only get worse

[Uben]

48. 59 in a coupla months......

.....and yeah, I only feel like I'm 35 or so. Where the heck did all those years go? The good side is, I am healthy and in very good shape physically. Heck, I'm ready to start the fourth quarter, and anything goes!

[niyad]

49. happy birthday to you, (FIVE sleeping pills? ) just remember this statement I heard eons ago:

age is a case of mind over matter. if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

and remember something. you are the youngest now that you will ever be.

[Pharaoh]

53. Brrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kablooie]

55. I beat you. I'm over 60 and I feel about 23, so there!

[AAO]

91. You imature party pooper! Grow up! At least to 25!

[Chaco Dundee]

56. so what

I will be 59 this coming june,and I'm still fighting girls in their early 30th off.not all off them though.enjoy it while you can.

[SDjack]

60. Life beyond 59 is easy. Just

make a two-column table and in the left column enter all the food, drink, and exercises that you like. In the right column, enter your least favorites.
Now, you can have nothing in the left column. Of course, you can have all you want in the right column.

[Pharaoh]

62. All I can say is....

Kriesss! Nock a moill!!!!!!!!!!!

[AAO]

92. Papa, is that you?

[flt rsk]

65. Damn, I miss it.

As I sit here with my first of the evening of glass of 12 yr. old single malt. The wife had gone to bed and I think back and realize that I can’t even remember being 59. Was that the year that I had my first epidural or when I had the carpal tunnel surgery? It could have been the year that I learned that I suffer (Suffer hell, I relish it. Well, maybe not during the years I was in while in Viet Nam) A.D.D. Maybe it was the year that the cardiologist told me that my heart was in great shape but if I did not get away from my job ( Goddamn, I loved that job. Management - - not so much. They’re the ones responsible for Snowden.) I would self-destruct. He then asked what I did for relaxation. I said sailing and beer. He told me to do more sailing and switch to wine. Then he gave me a prescription for both to give to my wife. She did not buy it and tried to get me enrolled in a swim program. Now, at 65, I take my arthritis, A.D.D., and anti-inflammatory meds with my breakfast. I also take my calcium tablets for bone loss three times a day. In the evening, it’s wine or scotch and nonfiction reading. I should have paid attention when I was told that motorcycles and the Marine Corps were bad for one’s health. I was given Cialis for my prostate but threw it away because it gave me acid reflux. I need to be able to eat more than I need a woody. Blue Cross and I have bought my orthopedic surgeon a very nice lake home and helped put two kids through college. My physical therapist gets a new gas hog SUV every two years.

I have a t-shirt that says “HELP I’m a 19 year old trapped in this old man’s body.”

A coworker’s son had to interview a Vietnam vet for a college class project. After the interview he asked me about my regrets; what would I do different? My immediate answer was “Get a better camera”. I’d do it all over again; even knowing the end of the movie.

[Lifelong Protester]

66. Happy Birthday! And learn how to say "Is there a discount?"

I am 58, and man, do I suck up all the discounts for being a 'senior'.

Dance like you mean it!

Don't worry what others think!

Please yourself first!

Value your own opinions and thoughts.

Decide what you want to be when you grow up!!

[Silent3]

67. I'm "only" 51, but I've lost so much weight and gotten in such good shape lately...

...that I'm feeling pretty bullish about how I'm going to look and feel when I hit 60.

This past summer I easily sped past all the 20-somethings I encountered while hiking up Mount Monadnock a half dozen times, and my first ever climb of Mount Washington (in NH) turned out to be way easier for me than what many people had led me to expect. For my first attempt at running 5K (without much running experience, even at shorter distances, beforehand) I clocked in at a moderately respectable 24:08.

At my last physical, my blood numbers were great, and my blood pressure is down to a healthy level, without need for any medication, after previously flirting with Stage 1 hypertension. My risk for heart disease or a heart attack is now way lower than the average for my age and gender (less than 2% over 10 years, instead of 8%).

At 6' tall, I'm down to a 30" waist after coming down from where 40" was getting uncomfortably snug.

I've got a few complaints -- like a growing need for reading glasses, feeling a bit stiffer in my joints than I used to, graying and thinning hair -- but overall, I'm oddly enough in better shape now in most ways than I was in high school. (I considered even a 1 mile run grueling torture back then, and up until just a few months ago, that's the greatest distance I'd ever attempted.)

Vigorous exercise and better eating might not be the magic bullet for everyone, but I can certainly say they've greatly improved my expectations for the years to come.

[TeeYiYi]

71. Ummm.....

"...approaching middle age" ???...
That ship has already sailed, my friend.



I _(barely) remember hating my 29th birthday. I thought my world was coming to an end. Then, a year later, I turned 30 and I felt young again. Whew, what a relief that was!

Seriously,... fifty-nine, most likely, only feels old. You'll be young again next year at this time. Better to be a young sixty than an old fifty.
Happy Birthday AAO!!!

TYY

[nolabear]

73. Hey! I'm a whole week older than you, whipper-snapper!

We'll be fine for quite a few more years. But it is a bit sobering to be a young person in an aging body!

[mstinamotorcity2]

75. Lucky you.

Having a mad at repug moment can't sleep. Happy Birthday AAO. They say that 60 is the new forty. That's next year huh. Now you got something to look forward to Have a great Birthday and many more.

[AAO]

94. You mean I'm really forty! YEEHAH!!

I'm going to a college bar tonight and try to pick up some late 20' early 30's bar sluts! I'M BACK, DAMMIT!!!

[raging moderate]

76. I read that sixty is called the Sun Birthday in China.

It is the age at which one is considered a real grownup, in that land. there is some of that feeling here as well. And I have read elsewhere that one finally gains control over one's impulses and learns true wisdom. Hang in there! I will turn 66 soon. Just make sure you keep exercising and eating sensibly, etc. Keep saying to yourself: Sixty is the new forty.

[Indi Guy]

77. It's your body that's growing old.

That would be bad news if we were our bodies, but we're not. Our bodies are what we inhabit. We are eternal spirits; and when it comes time to transition out of here -- we'll move on to the next great adventure.

[blue14u]

78. Happy Happy

Birthday AAO!!!!!

Celebrate and enjoy your day.



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[Ganja Ninja]

86. I turned 60 in August.

Sorry but I have to report it's all downhill after 59. No matter if you still feel young in the head. On the outside you're still old and decrepit. Get use to it.

Oh yeah Happy Birthday!

[AAO]

95. Yes, you feel my pain! Thank you for backing me up on this.

[Tom Rinaldo]

87. Keep lookiing foward, but look behind you also

You have an incredibly rich catalog of memories stored up. Not only do they inform all of your decisions moving ahead, in ways only experience can offer, but they are rewarding for their own sake. So enjoy them. Nostalgia has high entertainment value. Revisit places that were important to you in the past and bathe in the recollections that brings up. Think about people you have known in your life who were important to you once but who may not be an active part of it now. If you have examples of things you wrote decades ago re-read them again and reflect on how you have changed, if at all. Become familiar with new music but enjoy your old music too, you can have it all because you were there then but you are still here now. Younger people don't have that advantage.

[DCBob]

93. 59 is the new 39.

Go for it. Have some fun and adventure. Dont fret it.. just live!

[AAO]

96. Crap! Now I'm 39!! If we can keep this thread open maybe I can get down to 29.

[DCBob]

108. ha!

[AAO]

97. Thanks for all the Birthday wishes. DU'ers are nice compassioate, and FUNNY people!!

[LWolf]

98. Approaching middle age?

People in your family must be extremely long-lived, lol. I counted my 40th birthday as having reached middle age.

I still feel about 25 in my head, too. My back, knees, ankle, and mirror tell a different story. I'm always surprised to see my mother looking back at me.

I don't mind too much. The alternative is worse.

Edited to add:

Happy Birthday!

[ancianita]

102. Take heart. You've got six years to go. Florida, full of old people, has these rules. Rule #1:

You're not legitimately or officially "old" until 65.

Rule #2: When we look at each other after age 55, we allow for behavior back to twenty years younger, since that is how most of us already feel, anyway.

That way, you're not subject to stares from older people or claims by younger people that you're "trying to act young."

So lose the worry and have a happy birthday.

[calimary]

103. Happy Birthday AAO - from "Miss 60"! };D

It's survivable! I've lived to tell the tale! Yeah you're getting older - but remember, even the young 'uns are, too! You're just getting it over with sooner than they are!

[CountAllVotes]

105. You still there?

Geez, I hope so!
Happy Birthday you Middle Aged monster you!

[HockeyMom]

106. I got my Medicare card last month

It felt worse after turning 50 and getting all that AARP stuff in the mail! lol You get used to it and just go about living your life.

Personally, if I had to go back in age, it would be 45 and never 25.

[magical thyme]

107. I turned 60 a few weeks ago.

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Enjoy 59. It's your last year in your official youth.

My advice for turning 60: it's a trip down memory lane while you think about where you've been and how you want to spend the last 3rd or so of your life. Try to plan a pleasant visit. Avoid those bullies who would try to use that day to shove your head into the toilet side of your life. (It turned out my boss is one of those bullies, and I ended up spending the week in ptsd, plus the planned activities blew up on the morning of my b-day. The freak outs, nightmares and sleepless nights are only just now receding more than a month later. )

Oh, and I forgot why I came here...Have a wonderful birthday today!

[stopbush]

111. Whatever you do, DON'T LOSE YOUR JOB!

59 is not the time to be looking for work with the rampant ageism in today's employment market.

[WinkyDink]

112. As Dear Abby would say, "Kwitcherbellyakin!" (I'm 64.)

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

[Spirochete]

113. Well, you're only young once

but you can be immature forever. That's what's saving me. I turned 60 a few days ago. I feel a lot older physically than I do mentally.

[Carolina]

115. "... yet I am approaching middle age."

No, you are approaching OLD age. You've been in middle age.

Now, as one who has been where you are (notice the past tense), don't fret. It is not: good night, Irene!

It's time to rock on

[Jazzgirl]

116. I'll be 60 in March.

Not much you can do about it unless you want to take that whole bottle of pills.

I'm retiring this spring too and can't wait. I have all kinds of fun things planned like traveling, getting rid of "stuff", taking cooking classes at Le Cordon Bleu..... Anything I feel like!

[Skittles]

121. I have milestone birthday ass kicking specials, Jazzgal

squeeze me in amongst all those activities please; yes INDEED

[lumpy]

117. Tomorrow I will be 85 years old. You haven't seen anything... yet, Bucko.

Whining about turning 59 is for whimps.

[polly7]

120. Happy Early Birthday, lumpy!

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[lunatica]

119. So far my 60s have been quite nice

Cheer up. It gets better.

[life long demo]

122. Wishing you a belated Happy Birthday

and many, many more.

[dipsydoodle]

124. Well lucky you

youngster.

Happy Birthday and Many Happy Returns of the Day.

[pink-o]

125. I'll be 59 on Monday...

Isn't that supposed to be our parents' age????

And how come every time I look in the mirror there's this old, confused looking lady staring back at me? I'll knock on the glass and say: "Mom? How did you get in there?"

However, I not only feel 25, I don't think my energy has flagged at all from when I was that age! I got really lucky: in my late 20s I gave up all my unhealthy habits, in my mid-thirties I made fitness a priority and being blessed with strong peasant DNA, I'm totally pain-free with no health issues. The face and body are moving in a southerly direction every day, but I can keep up with the best of em!

At our age, we take what we can get! Happy b'day.

[Vinca]

126. I refer to 59 as "the good old days." LOL.

In about a month I'll be 65 in body, 35 in mind. Don't let it get you down. Kind people tell me I don't seem my age - I'm not into "old lady" things - so I live in my fantasy world of not being a few weeks away from Medicare.

[ScreamingMeemie]

127. Happy Birthday!

Let's hope Aaron returns completely healthy on Sunday, in honor of this momentous occasion.

[catbyte]

128. Hate to tell you this, AAO, but "middle age" is about 35-40. We don't live to be 120! BTW I will be

59 in a few months myself and I feel just like you do. WHERE DID THE TIME GO?!? As for getting through it, drugs? A stiff belt of something? I was recovering from surgery when I turned 40, so Vicodin got me through that crisis, LOL. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when the Big 6-0 comes around. That's the one I am dreading. I'm not sure why. 50 was a breeze, but the idea of 60 is traumatic.

Sorry I don't have any good suggestions, but I do send my sympathies!

[TuxedoKat]

130. Well Happy Birthday!

Hope it is a memorable one.