I''m 40. Just saying.
40? really? I just ain't feeling it.... Do I have to get the bifocals today?
I got my first pair at 45, but my eye doctor told me that my eyes seem to be aging faster than normal.
I hate glasses, i wear contact lenses.
But 40? Really? I feel 25.
Does that make you a cougar now?
40 the new 25. Im coming up to 50 and that is weird.
Does that make you a cougar now?
Equation: 40 + female=cougar
I reckon that's leaving a variable or two out of the equation.
well beest is still 39.....
does nobody feel the need to correct my double apostrophe? :lol:
No bifocals. Get yourself a purple outfit and a big red hat!
I don't feel my age either. The 40s are the BEST.
Happy Birthday! :celebrat:
no wai! no hats :lol: thanks
40s for me = my dreams are all dead and I'm too old to make new ones.
:comfort:
40s are as hard as any other decade, I suppose, but when you get to this age you should know yourself pretty well by now. I don't expect that I'll ever change into a domestic goddess, that clothes won't lie around the floor, that I'll become less emotional and more driven, that I won't cry when people win a bunch of money on a game show (heheeee...I'm just so damn happy for them), that I'll be a great friend and daughter and sister who remembers to send cards or pick up the phone....
The beauty of it I've found myself saying "sure, I can work on improving things and doing better, but I am just human me. I'm not human him or human her...I'm just me." Struggling along as we all do, but liking myself much better than I did when I was so much younger.
It's empowering!
Shawnee is wise. But I can still dream of being a domestic goddess, can't I? (while not giving up any other aspect of my busy life) :lol: My birthday gift to myself was supposed to be getting my house neat and tidy and clean. I failed. You can't even tell I tried. But I know I tried, and I know it's better. Sorta. Ah well. My friend just took me out for breakfast. I realised I was hungover. Start as you mean to go on..... :D
that's a big one! congratulations, and many happy returns of the day.
Happy Birthday Monster! The 40's are great! (The first three years anyway.)
Happy birthday monster! The best is yet to come!
it gets better from here. ;)
Shawnee is wise. But I can still dream of being a domestic goddess, can't I? (while not giving up any other aspect of my busy life) :lol: My birthday gift to myself was supposed to be getting my house neat and tidy and clean. I failed. You can't even tell I tried. But I know I tried, and I know it's better. Sorta. Ah well. My friend just took me out for breakfast. I realised I was hungover. Start as you mean to go on..... :D
I was wondering....;)
At 40, you're not even half way yet, but congrat's on making it this far.
Still time for doing or finishing what you wanted when you were a 20-something.
After all it's really true that... it gets better
Happy Birthday, Monnie, you young thing you
Maybe for her birthday, we could all call her "monster" and avoid that other name.
Yeah, and stay off her damn lawn!
I'm 42. No bifocals yet. Welcome to the forties. :D
Happy Birthday Monster. The good news is that you will always feel 25. It's actually been proven that regardless of a person's actual age they always think of themselves as being in their early 20s.
hehe.
Pico, you were wondering, huh? Now why would that be? I rarely get hungover. That's not to say I rarely drink, just that sometimes I get slack on my post-drinking protocol. ;)
It seems maybe some people think my passion about the it gets better campaign is out of character. I can assure you it's not. I just save it for certain topics I feel very strongly about. This happens to be one.
Glatt, thanks.
It started getting better the minute I stopped trying to be who other people felt I should be sometime during high school, and yes it's still getting better. That's why I'm celebrating 40, not mourning it. Plenty more things to do with my life and plenty I've done. I've spent the last decade getting to know the States (visiting 37 of them) Now maybe I'll spend the next 10 improving them? :lol: :p:
I kinda liked my 30s. Now i have a whole nother decade to play with. Of course then I'll be 50.... :eek: :lol:
Should we wish you a happy birthday here or over in the birthday thread? Oh, what the heck...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! :D It's ur birthday, have fun, not clean the house. :p: Btw, I felt old at 40...doh, that's this year. :rolleyes: My body, not my spirit that is. :neutral:
hehe.
Pico, you were wondering, huh? Now why would that be? I rarely get hungover. That's not to say I rarely drink, just that sometimes I get slack on my post-drinking protocol. ;)
It seems maybe some people think my passion about the it gets better campaign is out of character. I can assure you it's not. I just save it for certain topics I feel very strongly about. This happens to be one.
That's cool Monster, but it's not why I wondered. I didn't think twice about the passion you exhibited, I've seen you do it before in other areas. Must have been something in the wording in one of your posts. No biggie.
everywhere. Let's party all over the whole board..... :D
Lordy lordy monster's forty.
That's cool Monster, but it's not why I wondered. I didn't think twice about the passion you exhibited, I've seen you do it before in other areas. Must have been something in the wording in one of your posts. No biggie.
the double apostrophes maybe? :lol: I'm usually drinking a beer of an evening. I'm rarely drunk, but I can't type sober.....
Should we wish you a happy birthday here or over in the birthday thread? Oh, what the heck...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! :D It's ur birthday, have fun, not clean the house. :p: Btw, I felt old at 40...doh, that's this year. :rolleyes: My body, not my spirit that is. :neutral:
Oh God, the body. It really lets you down once you get past 45. It's a challenge not letting it sink that 'young-at-heart spirit.
Lordy lordy monster's forty.
A few years back I got a birthday party invite using those words. It was more recently I realized they were supposed to sound the same except for the first letter! About the time I realized object in the mirror are closer than they appear was also a rhyme. :rolleyes:
Oh God, the body. It really lets you down once you get past 45. It's a challenge not letting it sink that 'young-at-heart spirit.
Well I'm happy to report that I did not wake up this morning to find that I needed to tuck my tits into my waitband. I've done nect to no exercise this week though and my legs are itching for a bike ride or run, but it's hot and sticky today and I have other stuff i really should get done. like returning the tables to the pool for the swim meet tonight. Somehow this week blew by and all of a sudden they're panicking and looking for the tables.
I'm usually drinking a beer of an evening.
I don't quite understand this Britism, using
of like that. Jake Thackray uses it in "She also talks without stopping to me in our bed of a night;"
Can you 'splain me it?
nope :) Is it a Britishism?
maybe it means in the time belonging to the evening?
Lordy lordy monster's forty.
In our small-town paper there's always a "Lordy Lordy Look Who's 40." An old friend (may he RIP) wanted to put one in at Christmas, with a pic of Jebus, and write "Forty Forty Look Who's Lordy."
nope :) Is it a Britishism?
Well, you and Jake Thackray are the only people who I've heard use it.
Around here (practically New England) There are some odd regionalsims like
"He's over
to so and so's house" instead of "He's over
at so and so's house"
and the disturbing use of "Heighth" rather than "Height"
Weird. The same guy I just posted about up yonder would call the house for my husband and say "Is ____ to home?" He did it as a joke, he didn't usually say that.
The forties are the best, enjoy! :thumb:
Women. Their 40s. Two words: sexual prime.
Happy birthday, monster! I'll take those thirties you just got done with if you don't mind, I don't need to waste money on brand new ones.
Sure thing, they're pretty well worn, though.....
Women. Their 40s. Two words: sexual prime.
I'll second that.
In... in a little while. Just give me a few minutes...:p:
Secret message decoded:
Well I'm happy to report that I did not wake up this morning to find ... my tits ... nect to ... my legs ... itching for a ... ride ... it's hot and sticky ... I have other stuff i really ... like ... returning ... to the pool ...
Women. Their 40s. Two words: sexual prime.
Congrats! live now. (and enjoy prime time)
Wecome back, warch. :notworthy
thanks. I'm feeling good :)
Missed youse guys! Lifting my virtual (but ironically quite hot and real) cup of coffee to toast the cellar and the happy 40somethin's!
Wait til you hit the 50's!
Hey Warch, long time no post. How's tricks?
Doing well and wish you and the little feet all the best.
I'm going 40 next year and it seems that I don't feel like I'm 40. I feel like I'm still in my teen years..
scuse me, do I detect a little hijacking here? :p:
ha, sorry! Took the warch update to another thread. Seriously cheers to the 40s. And have a blast!:beer:
Happy BD Monster. Wait till you turn 50. Then things can......
40 more rounds in the magazine, so watch it.
that is disturbing
Exceedingly so.
Happy Birthday monster! Tell us about your birthday haul.
Well, first she hauled her kids to school, then she hauled her ass around on a bicycle, then she hauled some sports equipment to various meets and games...
clod nailed it.
I don't really do presents -having a pool party in August was my big present this year- but my mother-in-law conspired with my friend to bring me some fresh (purple) flowers, friend knitted me a purple blanket, thor gave me the first (and only) pot he threw (painted purple) and Hebe made me a little monster. (red). And I got a cool metal bird sculpture from my MIL I picked out at the Ann Arbr Art Fair this summer.
oh and there's a mystery package en route from my sister, apparently.
She's an enigmatic present giver. One year she vacationed in Aus. I jokingly said I wanted a didgeridoo. One arrived by Fedex. Most awesomest surprise present ever. Last year she sent me a pink left handed fountain pen. Yes, I hate pink. Yes, I'm right-handed. Yes, I barely write any more. Yes you can't get the cartridges it needs in the US. Yes, she works for the company that made it. When I say works for....more like director of.......
I jokingly said I wanted a didgeridoo. One arrived by Fedex.
Can you play it?
I was told, in order to play a didgeridoo you have to master circular breathing. If you've done that, I want to be your friend. :blush:
oh and there's a mystery package en route from my sister, apparently.
She's an enigmatic present giver. One year she vacationed in Aus. I jokingly said I wanted a didgeridoo. One arrived by Fedex. Most awesomest surprise present ever. Last year she sent me a pink left handed fountain pen. Yes, I hate pink. Yes, I'm right-handed. Yes, I barely write any more. Yes you can't get the cartridges it needs in the US. Yes, she works for the company that made it. When I say works for....more like director of.......
mont blanc?
Can you play it?
I was told, in order to play a didgeridoo you have to master circular breathing. If you've done that, I want to be your friend. :blush:
Not very well. The circular breathing is not happening here yet -I can barely breathe in a staright line! But it's purple and it looks cool
If it's purple, you're holding it too tight.
I had to look it up.
Circular breathing is a technique used by players of some wind instruments to produce a continuous tone without interruption. This is accomplished by breathing in through the nose while simultaneously blowing out through the mouth using air stored in the cheeks.
Omfg - there's no way
Way. Old girlfriend's kid met a didgeridoo player with a reggae band in Philly, who taught the kid how do it on his trumpet. Fucking amazing to see, but I still don't understand how it's possible. :confused:
Kenny G shows you how...
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It should come easy to him. :rolleyes:
He says it takes him only 20 years to get it okay. :eek:
I have a digereedoo, and I have not mastered the circular breathing technique. It certainly would be a great skill to use with this instrument, but damn.
I can only inhale so quickly. And, I can only hold so much air in my cheeks. The balance is not anything close to equal. Plus the digereedoo is a high volume instrument, not in loudness, but in the amount of air it takes to make it sound like, you know, a digereedoo. I have toyed with the idea of making the mouth hole smaller, so I can get away with a tighter smaller pursing of my lips, but I can't think of how to do this... Beeswax around the opening? Anyhow, circular breathing is real. Real hard.
Woot! Belated Happy Birthday Monnie:)
Kenny G: The Master of Playing the Scales. Over and Over and Over and Over and...
;)
It should come easy to him. :rolleyes:
Snap!
There are few great Jazz trumpeters that can do it, don't recall the names right now.
I have toyed with the idea of making the mouth hole smaller, so I can get away with a tighter smaller pursing of my lips, but I can't think of how to do this... Beeswax around the opening? .
Yes, you are supposed to warm the beeswax and mold it to your preference.
!!!
sCHWEEEET!
thanks for the tip, I'll try it and report back.
at least that's what it said on the destructions that came with mine