Holy Cow...Tommorrow I'm"50"!!!

[Motorhead]

I don't know whether to celebrate or CRY! I can't believe that Friday(8-30) I'll be 50 yrs old. I don't know what my wife has in store but I'm sure that it will be good. It seemed a short hop from 40 to 50... I'm throwing out an anchor. Chris

 

[Pit Bull]

Good luck, it's going to go faster from now on :-laf Damn your old

 

[Speedo]

50!!!

Welcome to the club.



Gus

 

[Motorhead]

Thanks Pit Bull... Both of those statements are very incouraging Chris

 

[fest3er]

Originally posted by Motorhead
I don't know whether to celebrate or CRY! I can't believe that Friday(8-30) I'll be 50 yrs old. I don't know what my wife has in store but I'm sure that it will be good. It seemed a short hop from 40 to 50... I'm throwing out an anchor. Chris

Geez. I dunno what you're so worked up about. After all, you've had 50 years to prepare. It's not like you've been 23 all this time and suddenly you're 50!

Physical age is partly state of body, mostly state of mind. I sometimes have to remind me that I'm not a kid anymore, that I'm 43. Other than that, I'm still quite young, and have no intentions of becoming 'old' any time soon.

So go ahead and laugh, dance, leap for joy. Go climb a tree in the back yard. Remember always to leap into and spring out of your Dodge. As soon as you stop thinking young, your wife will find herself cooped up with a crotchety old man. And *then* what'll you do? Above all, keep her laughing, and you'll keep yourself laughing. And laughter is what keeps us young.

Fest3er

 

[Gray Ghost]

You mere child. 60 will be here before you know it. Then you will learn not to dring anything after 6. You can shake it all you want and it still drips. You develope CRS( CAN'T REMEMBER SH**.

 

[duaneparks]

Originally posted by Motorhead

I don't know whether to celebrate or CRY! I can't believe that Friday(8-30) I'll be 50 yrs old. I don't know what my wife has in store but I'm sure that it will be good. It seemed a short hop from 40 to 50... I'm throwing out an anchor. Chris

That's funny... my dad's birthday is tomorrow too, but I won't tell you how old he is... it'll make YOU feel even older. Just messin'.



Happy b-day dude.



Duane

 

[dalton4]

Moterhead, remember that the one with the most birthdays lives the longest. Hey! You're on your way. Just know that you don't have the record because I'm 10 ahead of you.



Jerry

 

[wcaldwell]

My world - welcome to it... ... ... .



It's better than laying in a box and trying to get the stem from a daisy to go up through 6 feet of dirt to the sunlight (pushing up daisies)

 

[Doc Tinker]

Try changing careers at that age, Junior. What fun



I'll bet the hop from 50 to 60 is way shorter.



Now you can join the AARP crowd, I think.







Doc

 

[illflem]

You aren't getting old, you're already old

Happy Birthday Chris

 

[Motorhead]

You know, The compassion and sympathy on this site is incredible!:{ Chris

 

[moparguy]

What a hoot, the last 3 posters are all within a cats whisker of 50. I turned 51 about 2 weeks ago.



Anybody else suddenly developed shoulder and neck pains to go with the aching back?.



Happy Birthday.



Ronnie

 

[emarsh]

well it's nothin but us baby boomers coming of age!

 

[QRTRHRS]

Originally posted by moparguy

What a hoot, the last 3 posters are all within a cats whisker of 50. I turned 51 about 2 weeks ago.



Anybody else suddenly developed shoulder and neck pains to go with the aching back?.



Happy Birthday.



Ronnie

You bet! Had a routine physical this morning. Necks been stiff for some time now so the doc had me get some xrays. Bloodwork, EKG, Urinalisis, BP, etc. , all very good though at 51+.

 

[rmrc]

Well,,, a Happy Birthday to ya Motor Head. I turn 51 today. My 50th birthday wasn't such a big deal. At 51,,, I'm feeling a whole lot of new aches and pains. Don't let the number affect you. The answer is in you "mind set". You're only as old as you 'think'!

 

[Champane Flight]

Thanks

Thanks Motorhead, you just reminded me I turn 52 Saturday. As long as you are active and can keep the weight off (stay off the Twinkies in my case) you can stay young forever. We are all Babyboomers?



I was watching "Bootcamp" the other day and decided to see if I could still pass the PE requirements for the Army. I can still do it! The only problem was the pushups, the wife had a problem with the stopwatch. She says, (after I did ten) " How do you get this thing to start?" So I had to do 45 instead of thirtyfive, "OUCH" my muscles are still sore. But, it did make me feel younger knowing I can keep up with the Pups. Whats that old saying? "I used to be able to do it all night, now it takes me all night to do it. "

 

[wcaldwell]

Also at 51, an old First Sergeant's comments come to mind:



"I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was. "



And yes, those neck and shoulder pains (among many others) are a real pain. And the glasses. And not hearing as clearly as I used to. Someone told me once that there are three things that go when you get old. One was your hearing. Another was your eyesight. I can't remember the third one.



I have an old Jimmy Stewart (the wonderful actor) poem here in my office:



My arthritis I can handle,

My bifocals fit just fine.

My teeth are really comfortable,

But, oh how I miss my mind. "

 

[illflem]

Anybody else notice that after you turn fifty that you grunt every time you bend over. My 85 year old neighbor always reminded my that 50 isn't that bad by calling me a youngster.

 

[willyslover]

Happy Birthday Motorhead

just think you only have 15 more years to save up for retirement. . unless you do like I did and say screw it and retire early [2 weeeks after my 55th b-day]. . oh what a relief it is. . no more forced Political Correctness for me, getting out of corporate management was a hundred lbs. of crap off the old shoulders !!