[the_old_crowd] Re: 50 yrs young

[Kat Macfarlane]

Gee, that makes me feel so much better. It means I'm only 54!

Purrs!

Gatta
Quantum me cogitis omnes!


  Hey 50 is the new 40, 40 is the new 30 and so on. So if you are 
  wondering why the twentysomething group seems so juvenile it's 
  because they are the new 10 <g> 
  Hippo Birdie 2 Ewe! I turned 50 last year. So far, I have not 
  developed a dowagers hump and still no gray hairs!

  Fran
  --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
  <catlady at ...> wrote:
  >
  > --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2"
  > <carolynwhite2@> wrote:
  > 
  > > Catlady, I am developing a morbid interest in such info, as I 
  > > approach my 50th in a few weeks... anyone care to cheer me with 
  > > (positive !) suggestions on how to mark the event, the year ahead
  > > etc??
  > 
  > On my birthday, my friend Regina told me a superstition of which I'd
  > never heard before (and which doesn't correlate with any astrology 
  or
  > numerology I've ever heard, and I suspect she made it up) that 
  people
  > have bad luck when their age is divisible by 7. 
  > 
  > So when I was 49, I had that expensive and stressful problem with 
  the
  > health inspector, and that expensive and stressful problem with
  > bedbugs, and my apartment building where I live was put up for sale
  > (which is stressful to contemplate because surely the purchasers 
  would
  > want to tear it down and build more densely on this large, grassy 
  lot
  > with flowerbeds and a few very thick old trees), and I had to move
  > cubicle at work, and had a lot of stress with a consultant who 
  thought
  > he could ensure renewal of his contract by keeping his work secret,
  > and now that I'm no longer 49, those bad things will stop 
  happening. 
  > I told her that moving cubicle wasn't so bad and my building is 
  still
  > up for sale and I'm not convinced I'm free of bedbugs yet ... It's
  > true that that consultant's contract wasn't renewed. It's even true
  > that Tim's car insurance for 2008 cost a lot less than I expected.
  > 
  > I suppose that would have been more comforting if I'd argued more
  > forcefully in favor of Regina's superstition being true.
  >



   

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