It just hit me this morning.

[hippywife]

And when I say, it hit me, I mean it hit me hard. I got up around 4 am to go tinkle and snuggled back into the blankies, looking forward to another hour of sleep, when all of a sudden it dawned on me and wouldn't let me go back to sleep. I'm going to be 50 this summer! :cry:

[Ptah]

1. Prepare for an inundation.

:evilgrin:

[hippywife]

4. Uh, uh!

I ain't tellin' when. Unless the DH decides to get back at me for that last little prank.

[Ptah]

8. No way he could be that clever?

:shrug:

[hippywife]

10. Well, he could very well be

and he tends to have a long memory. I guess we just wait and see, eh?

[Haole Girl]

2. Oh my...

You are scaring me. I had a meltdown about 46 last January. :hug:

[hippywife]

5. I had a meltdown at 40

just knowing that this next milestone was around the corner. Ack!

[MassLiberal]

3. congratulations!

:hi:

[hippywife]

6. I would hope

that you are past that mark or I'll have to have Skittles kick your ass for that snark! LOL Sigh.

[MassLiberal]

11. oh please don't do that

I just turned 48 and am already looking ahead a couple of years...no snarkiness intended! :hi:

[hippywife]

15. I know!

But I really have never actually witnessed a Skittles ass-kickin! LOL :hi:

[MassLiberal]

17. well, I would prefer not to be the first

especially given my advanced age! :scared:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear hippywife!

Fifty...

I remember when I got to that age...

I felt as though I'd climbed the tallest mountain without oxygen...

It was time to take stock of my life...

I looked forward and back...

I had no idea where I was going, or why...

What a strange long trip it had been, and it has only gotten better since then!

Enjoy it, sweetie!

I don't feel old even now...and I'm 64...

You let us know when it is, and we'll throw you a big Lounge party, OK?

[hippywife]

14. You're always so

very sweet, Peg. :hug:

[Gormy Cuss]

9. TMI ! TMI!

We don't need to hear about practically elderly folks tinkling in the middle of the night.

:silly:


It's just a number, hippywife, just like 40 was. 50 is no different than 49 and you survived that birthday, right? Go the Jack Benny route and call it your second 49th birthday.

[hippywife]

13. Okay.

I'm now making a list for Skittles!

Whippersnapper! Humph!




:rofl:

[Gormy Cuss]

23. Skittles doesn't scare me

much.
:hide:

:yoiks:

[Critters2]

12. It's next fall for me. I really dread it.

Yet, I feel this inevitability about it. I already refer to myself as fifty, as if, well, what the hell, I'm going to be so I might as well start now. Yet, I fear the actual day will be very depressing.

We'll jump the hurdle together, my friend. :hug:

[hippywife]

16. Ack!

I can't do that yet! I just can't! Well, at least I'm not alone. :hug:

[uppityperson]

18. Congratulations! that is a very exciting thing and time!

I was very happy when I turned 50. I didn't have to worry about competing with young hardbodies any more, could do what I wanted, could just be me. No more pregnancy worries. Hey, I don't have to deal with catcall assholes anymore either! Woohoo for 50!!

[hippywife]

19. I really am starting

to feel like that Amy Rigby song, "Invisible."

http://www.rhapsody.com/amyrigby/middlescence/invisible/lyrics.html

[uppityperson]

20. I've had invisible days all my life, don't seem to be having more of them since 50

More like I don't have to be bothered by people who would want to annoy me. I got my first "senior discount" at 51 at a local thrift shop. That took me aback, but hey, I hear I get more at 55. Frugal, yup. Now you can be flamboyant if you want, chameleon if you want. Being 50 is cool (and yes, I like not having periods anymore also. woohoo)

[proudfather]

21. You are still young

You are as old as you feel.

[Redstone]

22. Feh. I did that several years ago, and didn't even blink.

Redstone

[NMDemDist2]

24. the wiseandwonderful Mr. Ketchup is looking at the big Five Oh

this May

I'm past it so I get to watch him (and you) squirm

:rofl:















:hug:

[hippywife]

27. Gee!

Thanx for the sympathy, my friend! LOL

[DarkTirade]

25. Just think of it as the first anniversary of your 49th birthday.

[Missy Vixen]

26. We'll get through it together

I'll bring chocolate. I'm 47, and I'll be 48 in July. I'm no longer young. It's a very weird feeling.

It's also strange to be admiring members of the opposite sex and realize that I am old enough to be their MOTHER.

The worst part of all this? Getting up to go potty, then not being able to go back to sleep. :cry:

Julie

[hippywife]

28. I don't know how I'd react

with a full night of uninterrupted sleep. :cry:

[lost-in-nj]

29. I'm gonna be 50

in Nov....

and I am having a great time in my life right now... yes there are sad moments when I grieve the end of my marriage and life as I knew it...

But its time to let go and have a BLAST!!!!!!!!
kids are grown and I have me to worry about.

lots of good people here are turning 50 this year....lets start a thread and see....

now my stbx turned 50 on Weds. he is having a hard time... woe is me... my life passed before me... blah blah blah

I told him it's just a number......
and it is.... just a number


lost

:hi:

[hippywife]

33. Glad you are enjoying yourself amidst

the upheaval of separation and divorce. I do have to admit that these last 10 years have been the happiest of my life and it's all my husband's fault.

:hi:

[baby_mouse]

30. My Mum wrote her first novel when she was 50.

She never got it published, mind you. However, that's not because she couldn't, it nearly happened, but the publisher she started working with came on to her and she got scared of the publishing industry.

It was a damn good novel.

[hippywife]

34. Awesome!

Do you or she still have it? Wouldn't it be great to try to publish it for her?

[baby_mouse]

39. THAT is an IDEA that I HAD NOT HAD.

YOU RULE UTTERLY...


:think:

:hug:

Now get typing. You've got days before your 50s start! Think how much you can get down on paper in that time! Even just writing down your life experiences changes them in your mind, enrichening them and reconnecting them to yourself in new and amazing ways. Writing one's own fiction's even more nourishing.

What do I know, you're probably already a best-selling novellist.

Anyhoo, my Mum said that her 50s was when her life started to develop into something truly beautiful. She's 60-odd now and says it just keeps getting better...

[alarimer]

31. good luck

I am sort of struggling with the idea that I will be 40 in June. Yikes. How the hell did that happen?

[hippywife]

35. Sneaks up on ya, don't it? n/t

[ThomCat]

32. I'm going to be 40 in a few months.

It kind of sucks that we all must get older.

I hope it's been a mostly good 5 decades. And I hope there will be at least a few more. :)

[hippywife]

36. Thanx, sweetie!

The past 10 have been wonderful, really. Wouldn't change them for anything in the world.

As you know, I work in a retirement center so I'm always looking through this window into the future and it can be kinda depressing and scary at times. It struck me a couple of years ago that you can lose weight, change your hair, all kinds of things in your life but you can't stop that aging process. It happens no matter what you do.

I mostly still feel younger than I am. Don't feel I've changed much over the years except for becoming a little wiser.

Hope you are doing well today. Sorry you keep having migraines. All those pics of you in the big meet up pic thread are really great! You are so adorable I could just give you such a squeeze!

[LibDemAlways]

37. I spent birthday #50 at home feeling crappy about it.

Then I thought about my mother-in-law (whom I never met) who died at 40, leaving three small kids behind, and I snapped out of it in a hurry. When you put it into perspective, it's just a number on a continuum. I'm 55, rarely give it a second thought, and try to enjoy each day as it comes.

An early happy birthday.

[applegrove]

38. 60 is the new 40. So relax. Your still young.

[hellbound-liberal]

40. I'm turning 50 this year too, hippywife! I'm determined to make the second half

of my life even better than the first! I am also resolved to doing everything I can to make it to that milestone. Relax, like a previous poster said 60 is the new 40. You're only as old as you feel!

[UndertheOcean]

41. I am having fits of despair about turning 30 this May

50? Jesus

My condolences

[shaniqua6392]

42. I will be 45 on March 16th.

My 27 year old daughter just bought a house, is getting married and moving out. I still have a 15 year old daughter who is going through some teenage angst period of life lately. Ugh. I think I may need a huge xanax the size of a dinner plate that I can just nibble on for the next few months! On one hand, I am looking forward to having two grown children since I have been doing this since I was 17 years old. On the other hand, I am scared shitless of getting old and figuring out what I shall do when it is finally "my turn". Getting old sucks sometimes. I hope someone throws you a huge birthday party hippywife!!

[steelemagnolia]

43. Age is just a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter....

Celebrate each new year! It sure beats the hell out of the alternative!