I will be forty years old in about 40 minutes...

[Turn CO Blue]

Happy Birthday to me...

[deadparrot]

1. Happy Birthday!

:party:

[Turn CO Blue]

9. Thanks

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. Happy Birthday !

[KitchenWitch]

3. You are already 40 here

Happy Birthday :party:

[Turn CO Blue]

4. Hmmm. I'm older than I thought ;^ )

[KitchenWitch]

5. hahaha

:rofl:

[Melodybe]

7. Happy Birthday!!! I hope that you have a wonderful day.

:party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast: :party: :toast:

[Heidi]

6. You're already 40 in Switzerland!

Happy birthday! I _love_ my 40s! :pals:

[Turn CO Blue]

18. Tack så mycket

[WhollyHeretic]

8. Happy Birthday!

:party: :toast: :party:

[WCGreen]

10. Happy birthday slugger.....

It's all down hill from here on......

[Turn CO Blue]

15. (chuckling)

[Skittles]

11. Geezer

:D

[Turn CO Blue]

13. Too true. Some days I am, but more like a geezer-ette maybe?

:rofl:

[Skittles]

20. lol

Chris, who used to go under the name of YoungLiberal16, once called me a geezer and told me to "get back in my cage" because my musical tastes weren't hip enough for him - all it good fun; it still cracks me up to think about it :D

[Turn CO Blue]

21. Well, I am rather PROUD that I have stayed up pretty well

with "modern rock" - and listen to the same radio station that my college-aged son does.

[Skittles]

23. oh I like some new stuff

but the old stuff is - well, classic rock is in a class of its own :)

[Turn CO Blue]

28. You can't help it, you know. The songs from when we were in

high school are ingrained in our psyches... and you play some of them for your kids (and you and your spouse know every single word, and guitar riff, and drum roll) and your kids are rolling their eyes with this "what the hell IS this music" look on their faces... Then my daughter is like, "Wasn't this on that "I Love the 80's" show?"

Gotta love it!

[Skittles]

29. well

I know plenty of youngsters who appreciate classic rock - because they know good music, regardless of what time period it is from.

[Turn CO Blue]

12. So, I heard this birthday should be difficult...

but it hasn't been. I look young (and feel younger since I gave up sugar and refined carbs).

What WAS rather "weird" was the day my son moved all his stuff out of the house in the fall last year. That gives a mother pause, and the creepy empty nest feeling for a few days.

[halobeam]

14. Oh Baby...stick your head in gravy..!

Feels weird, don't it? LOL join the new "bracket" 40+

Stretch every morning after a warm shower provides the flexibility to do that, then repeat shower to loosen the muscles after you stretch, so they don't tighten up worse. You'll be very clean and be able to walk up the stairs.

Awwwww, Happy Birthday anyway.

yes, I am punchy about now.

Goodnight and celebrate... it's really a terrific age. You are now officially SMART.

PSSST...I do not lead by example.

[Turn CO Blue]

16. Yep. The 40+ bracket is upon me for every form from now on...

I plan to celebrate this whole week.

[enigmatic]

17. Happy Birthday!!

40 isn't so bad; I'm just a little creakier:)

[Turn CO Blue]

22. Yep. When does that happen...you know, the day

you start groaning whenever you try to stand up from sitting in a deep cushy chair? Or worse, if you drop something on the floor, and you're like, "just leave it".

[enigmatic]

25. I'm there

I'm a avid biker, and although I'm still fairly healthy, I get those moments more often these days. I can handle it.......mostly:)

[the_spectator]

19. I am so sorry for your loss.

:hug:

I have only just over two and a half years before that happens to me!
:scared:

[Turn CO Blue]

26. ha ha. My hair has gotten thinner - so there was some loss

involved. I used to have such thick hair, I would break the ponytail holders -- now I have to do that "ratting" fluffing thing that we used to do in the '80's to have the big Texas hair!

[democracyindanger]

24. 40's the new 30's.

Gotta love progress.

[Turn CO Blue]

27. I thought 50 was the new 30!

I'm fairly sure that's what an aging population tells itself, anyway.

I am sure that brown is the new black.

[VolcanoJen]

30. WOOT!!!!!

Congratulations, Turn CO!!

I'll be joining you in approximately 9 months.

[Turn CO Blue]

31. So you're just a baby still!

[VolcanoJen]

33. Know what? I'm looking forward to 40.

My 30's were fantastic, amazing. I learned so much.

I grew.

I became me.

The 40's are for tweaking.

Bring it on!! I'm not scared.

Happy birthday, baby!!

[Turn CO Blue]

45. My inlaws are in their 60's (very young 60-year-olds) and they

tend to think my husband and I are just puppies. They still ask if we need money, etc.

Anyway, my son has been out of the house for two years, and my daughter is fifteen and a half. So, in three years, I will have an empty nest. Forty-three seems rather young to have the whole child-rearing phase over with --there will be plenty of time for tweaking this decade, as you say.

[Wapsie B]

32. Happy Birthday!

:party::party::party:

:toast: :toast: :beer:

[lavenderdiva]

34. Happy Birthday Turn CO Blue!!

make a wish now....

while we all sing 'Happy Birthday To You'


Party on...

[alittlelark]

35. 40 is easy! It's all those nasty prime numbers that follow it....

I've always had bed luck w / prime # years....

[dave29]

36. forty trips around the sun

well done!

[Turn CO Blue]

44. That's a novel way to think of it! I'm going to use that today. n/t

[NMMNG]

37. Happy birthday to you!

[neweurope]

38. Happy Birthday!

It's my Birthday, too :) And I'm very busy preparing the party

:hi:


-----------------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Turn CO Blue]

46. Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!

:party:

I went to Hamburg for a week in July with a large group from work (we were having an Airbus delivered). I had such a great time, and I had so many wonderful discussions (many about GWB) with Germans of all ages at varous restaurants and bars (some in the red zone). People were extraordinarily friendly.

[6000eliot]

39. Happy Birthday

And welcome to the 40s.

[Rhiannon12866]

40. Happy Birthday to you!!! Turn CO Blue!!! What a Milestone!!!

And welcome to the club!!! Here's to a great 40th and to many, many, many more!!!:toast:

:toast::party::woohoo::wow::bounce::applause::toast::party::woohoo::wow::bounce::applause::toast::party::woohoo::wow::bounce::applause::toast::party::woohoo::wow::bounce::applause::toast::party::woohoo::wow::bounce::applause::kick::kick::kick:

[bliss_eternal]

41. Happy 40th Birthday!

:applause:

:party: :toast:

Hope you have plans to do something fun for your birthday!

Oh and Hi, from another Leo--
:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

42. Happy Birthday...and I hope your present is your screen name becoming

a reality. :hi:

[Turn CO Blue]

47. Well, I will do more than my share for 2006 CO-04 and gov races!

Hackett's race shows us that Musgrave might be vulnerable, especially since she voted for CAFTA. I don't live in that district, but she's so hateful and giving Colo a black eye - so she has to go.

[In_The_Wind]

43. Hey there Turn CO Blue

[no name no slogan]

48. Happy birthday fellow Leo!

I'm 36 tomorrow myself.

Did you know you share your birthday with Napoleon Bonaparte (b 1769), and also these other famous people?


Walter Scott -- writer (1771)
Ethel Barrymore -- actress (1879)
Edna Ferber -- author (1887)
T. E. Lawrence -- adventurer (1888)
Julia Child -- chef (1912)

:toast: