Here's to the downhill being better than the uphill.
Here's to the downhill being better than the uphill.
Through the woods grandma approves.
You've still got a long way to go yet kid. Some of the best years of my life were in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. Happy birthday !!
If you weren't this age, you wouldn't appreciate the climb to get here. Enjoy!
Me in 6 months. Not sure it's a milestone, already feel like I'm falling apart for a few years now.
Maybe 41 since it's prime and all.
Welcome to the club!
What age is the top of the hill?
Happy birthday!
WonkoTheSane said:What age is the top of the hill?
Happy birthday!
The big 4-0. I get to buy a sports car!
I saw the birthday list after I posted.
Happy birthday brother.
If you are like me, thinking you'd be dead at 30, you just hit 10 years free! August will be my 24th free year. My 60th birthday, if I make it, is the day I retire.
Here's to many more!
In reply to Javelin :
When the image popped up, the flesh color of your finger and the white of the ice, I saw dentures for a second. Sorry.
Javelin said:WonkoTheSane said:What age is the top of the hill?
Happy birthday!
The big 4-0. I get to buy a sports car!
Ah yeah, enjoy that sports car! I tried that with my wife when I turned 40, she said we already had enough 2-seaters...
WonkoTheSane said:Javelin said:WonkoTheSane said:What age is the top of the hill?
Happy birthday!
The big 4-0. I get to buy a sports car!
Ah yeah, enjoy that sports car! I tried that with my wife when I turned 40, she said we already had enough 2-seaters...
Since my first car was a red two seater sports car and I still have a bunch of them, my wife and I joked that I'd probably buy a minivan for my midlife crisis.
Narrator: he didn't.
Keith Tanner said:WonkoTheSane said:Javelin said:WonkoTheSane said:What age is the top of the hill?
Happy birthday!
The big 4-0. I get to buy a sports car!
Ah yeah, enjoy that sports car! I tried that with my wife when I turned 40, she said we already had enough 2-seaters...
Since my first car was a red two seater sports car and I still have a bunch of them, my wife and I joked that I'd probably buy a minivan for my midlife crisis.
Narrator: he didn't.
Well shoot, I've already done a few of those, too. What I really haven't had yet is a *French* car! I should go 2CV shopping...
In reply to Javelin :
Less expensive than a French mistress. Probably.
If you want to have a real quality French midlife crisis car, get an SM. Definitely not less expensive than a mistress.
Keith Tanner said:If you want to have a real quality French midlife crisis car, get an SM. Definitely not less expensive than a mistress.
"You meet the nicest people on the side of the road when you own an SM" or a 2CV :)
Happy Birthday Javelin! Hope your "downhill" is an extremely long, smooth glide. 
I have enjoyed being over the hill. More time, more money, less panic and stress, better health and fitness(begat by the first three), and a general sense that life is OK. I just try not to do the math on what I have left. (seems like yesterday my last kid was born but when he is twice as old as now I might be in a diaper agan.
Time to buy the motorcycle that would have killed you in your 20s.
In reply to ShawnG :
I've never ridden a motorcycle and currently not interested in owning one, but I do think I should take the safety course soon so I can say I did it before 40 and it's not a midlife crisis thing.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
Funny Keith, My Ex said something similar when I turned 40. I had a MR2 Turbo when I turned 40. I sold a miata for it. She joked that it was SUV time.
In reply to ShawnG :
I had that, before 20 
Was 35 before I grew up enough to realize I'd live to see 30. Age did not mess a thing up.
I do ride a motorcycle a tiny bit less likely to kill me, but...
In reply to j_tso :
I didn't call it a mid-life crisis.
I prefer "conscious redistribution of funds and priorities".
Saw it was your birthday on the site then checked for recent posts because I hadn't crossed paths with you in many threads here lately. Found this and I am pleased.
Happy birthday, I'm not far behind you and I wish you a strong second half. Anyone can be fast out of the gate but I'm hoping life is more akin to endurance racing where it's won in the long run not at the start.
I've Been over the hill since I was 30.
But, Appleseed, that means when you reach 60...
Yup.
Your hill is too short! My kids are your age, and I'm only halfway there!!
Happy Birthday!
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