OT- how old are you really?

Yep, it is. :-)

Cathy

Yep, it's all relative.

And I don't know how I got to be the age I am; last I knew, I was about ...

1. ;-)

Cathy

Hey, we could diet and get younger! Well, maybe the formula isn't that good. (:-<

You mean the idea about eating something like 1000 calories or less (or whatever ridiculously small amount it is) per day deal?!

Cathy, beware of what they say about aging.... "Life is like a roll of toilet paper... ....the closer to the end of it you get, the faster it seems to go!"

..........and you can take that to the bank. It's so true it's scary. I think of something I've done fairly recently (I think) like a memorable vacation, and when I date it, it was 2002 ! Fortunately, I thought myself to be immortal until a few years ago, so the inevitability of shuffling off hasn't bothered me....until lately. (Speaking of immortality, I have always loved the comment of William Saroyan, who in the last year of his life, said "I have always known that people got old and died, but I thought that in my case, an exception would be made.")

Haven't heard this particular saying, but it's spot on.

Yeah, I know. I first noticed it happening when I was 27 - and from that time, has kept speeding up. Rather backwards, IMO; when little, birthday to birthday, Xmas to Xmas, whatever... seems to take for-ev-er & you *want* the time to go by mnore quickly. But no, it drags. Later on, it zooms.

;-) He definitely had a point.

Cathy

In which case you're only 3 years younger than I am. But after a while, every little bit helps, I know. ;-)

Cathy

I keep telling people "10 days after next Chaunukah I'm going to be 84." But they don't get the joke.

In reality, I turn 50 this year and I've got competition over which party I'm going to and as what. Since there is a Halloween party on the same day as my birthday, I'm half tempted to go as a pregnant homecoming queen, since I went to that party as a cheerleader last year. Another party looks like it's going to be in Kentucky also a Halloween party, and I probably won't go to that one. There may be a party at work and my sister may also have a party.

Charles of Schaumburg

Smart move.

Cathy

So what happened to you:

"Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain." Winston Churchill.

So you're over 40 what happened to your brain?

Charles of Schaumburg

"No generalization is worth a damn, including this one" TAK

Then Cathy hasn't figured that out yet?

Charles of Schaumburg

Thank you, Charles "Ponce de Leon". Liberalism, the Fountain of Youth for our times.