I'm chopping up the decades now.

[barbtries]

Last edited Sat Aug 26, 2023, 01:01 PM - Edit history (1)

It's my 68th birthday, so now I'm in my late 60's. Yesterday, I was in my mid 60's.

time keeps marching on.

ETA: so I had my annual lung cancer screening and was away from the computer, and THANK YOU all!!

results already came back. in spite of my dread lifestyle choice to smoke cigarettes, it appears I'll be around for the next scan at least, at least on the lung part.

[Glorfindel]

1. Happy birthday, youngster!

I'll be 78 next Wednesday.

[barbtries]

2. Enjoy the rest of your mid-70s

and have a great birthday. Thank you!

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Happy Birthday, barbtries!

We’re getting better, not older! I’m right behind you.

[zuul]

4. Enjoy your day!

[Scottie Mom]

5. Happy Birthday!!!!!

And...many more!!!!

[niyad]

6. Wishing you a very Happy Birthday, and a wonderful coming year.

[twodogsbarking]

7. May all of your poops be sufficient. Happy Birthday.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Happy Birthday!!

[Joinfortmill]

9. LOL

[NewHendoLib]

10. Waving at you from the other end of the state, my friend!

Happy Birthday! I miss our triangle are DU get togethers we did for that period of time.

I turn 68 on my next, in January. Knee replacement coming in December. My gardening this year confirmed to me that 67 is not 57!

Hoping all is well, and enjoy your big day!

[barbtries]

42. Hey Curt!

Would love to get together again with DUers. Hope your surgery goes well, I had kidney stones removed in January and it kicked my butt for 18 days (google said about 5 days to recover). All good now.
thank you

[nuxvomica]

11. Happy Birthday, barbtries!

All the greatest, smartest, kindest, most attractive people were born in 1955!

[barbtries]

43. we were a good crop, I agree

thank you!

[Farmer-Rick]

12. Happy birthday

Our choice as we go through life is get older or die. I prefer the former.

I suspect you do too....may you have many more happy years.

[LoisB]

13. Happy Birthday, have a lovely day.

[Layzeebeaver]

14. Happy birthday

You are only as young as you feel.

I feel 63 physically and 16 mentally.

Go figure!!!

My wife is 52, so that makes me a late stage pedo or she’s a gold digger…

Regardless we are totally happy in our respective skins.

Just be happy and have a laugh at your general state every day. It all could change in a heartbeat…

[Javaman]

15. Happy birthday! Same day as my grand pap he would have been 147 years old

68 doesn’t sound so bad now lol

Cheers and have a fun day!

[thatcrowwoman]

16. Happy Birthday, barbtries, and many happy returns of the day!🌞

May your next circle around the sun be filled with love and laughter, good health, and good times with family and friends. May you be surrounded with love and protection, and may you always find whatever help you may need

Here’s a little musical inspiration for you from CSNY.
Rejoice! Rejoice! We have no choice but to carry on.
Love is coming to us all.
🩵🕊thatcrowwoman

[barbtries]

44. thank you thatcrowwoman

love that song

[mountain grammy]

17. Happy Birthday!

Oh to be 68 again Have a great day

[70sEraVet]

18. Happy birthday!

As we get older, we get wiser. Wisdom comes at a stiff price!

[3catwoman3]

19. The year I turned 58, my dad said something about...

…being in my mid-50s. I replied, “Dad - there’s only one more 50 left after 58! The mids have come and gone.”

Happy Birthday! 🎂🎉

[paleotn]

20. I'm still working out how to stop it. Aging that is, but no luck so far.

Oh...and happy birthday!

[Prairie_Seagull]

21. I am in my early 60s but body feels like mid 80s, Body lies.

Mind still thinks I am 35. I am going with that number.

What age does your mind tell you, you are? Go with that Barb and commit.


IMO

edit, Happy Birthday.

A good friend once told me, "you are every age you have ever been" Pick one you like and be that age. Just don't run any marathons.

[Solly Mack]

22. Happy Birthday!

[c-rational]

23. Happy Birthday 🎂

[kentuck]

24. This will be the new discovery 100 years from now.

Scientists will discover that the secret to aging lies in the brain and the thought processes.

The brain can be trained from a very young age to eat right, breathe right, and live the right life, and extend their life expectancies to almost 200 years.

That is, if we have not destroyed the Earth that gives us life.

[Rebl2]

25. Yep! That's

how it goes. Happy Birthday 🎉

[Aviation Pro]

26. Want to really blow your mind?

You’ve been alive for eight decades.

[barbtries]

45. i beg to differ.

I've been alive IN 8 decades. Don't rush me now!

funny you would say that, because I've always taken it as a point of pride that I had children in 3 different decades - as I like to day, usually only men can make that claim.

[cate94]

27. Happy birthday!

[MLAA]

28. Happy Birthday!

I continued to think I was middle aged, until I finally did the math and conceded that I’m unlikely to live to be 124!

[2naSalit]

29. Happy Birthday!

I'm a year and eight weeks behind you!

[Traildogbob]

30. Right!

Retirement decades after faster than Haul ass Hawley. I need a crap job to slow this shit down. Something like volunteering to clean toilets at the county GQP headquarters.

[Martin Eden]

31. Time marches on for everyone

Though Billy Pilgrim had a somewhat different experience.

[blm]

32. 💐🎂💐

[Pas-de-Calais]

33. Happy Birthday Barbtries!!

[pazzyanne]

34. Happy birthday, barbtries!

May your day be filled with special things, special people, and happiness. Remember, you're just a young thing! Enjoy!

[MontanaMama]

35. We're called Wise Women now.

We are a kick ass club, btw. Happy Birthday!

[NNadir]

36. My favorite statement along these lines is this: The alternative to growing old is dying young.

I'm thrilled to be old.

[pandr32]

37. Wishing you a happy birthday!

[rubbersole]

38. 68?

Still a puppy 🐶...Happy Birthday!

[GreenWave]

39. A veritable spring chicken

[Donkees]

40. 🎊 6️⃣8️⃣ 🎉

[Mr.Bill]

41. Happy Birthday!

I turned sixty-ten a few weeks ago.

[barbtries]

46. that was a biggie

happy birthday!

[qwlauren35]

47. I totally understand.

Yesterday I turned 59-1/2.

I've been waiting for this date all year. It's safe to withdraw from my 401K without penalty. Now I just have to keep my job for 5-1/2 years and then I can collect Medicare, and I will feel truly safe.

Hopefully my body will hold up. That's what really scares me.