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smg01 ([personal profile] smg01) wrote2005-12-06 08:18 am

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Happy Birthday [livejournal.com profile] mediumdave

[identity profile] mediumdave.livejournal.com 2005-12-06 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks very much, Suzanne! I turned 40 today, and have been pondering such thoughts as: When I was born Lyndon Johnson was the president, you could buy a tankful of gas with your pocket change, and NASA was still working on the technical problems involved in getting astronauts back from the moon.

I had a funny moment the Saturday after Thanksgiving while visiting Weston, Missouri with my wife and family... I was in a clothing store run by a former schoolmate of mine, and was chatting with her when a teenage girl who looked just like her younger sister (minus the Farrah hair) came in, and I realized this was the sister's daughter. It's not as if I felt suddenly old, but it was startling.

Oh, and there was a microburst and a relatively harmless tornado at roughly the same time. It was a memorable shopping trip.

[identity profile] suzannemarie.livejournal.com 2005-12-06 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a strange feeling to realize the your contemporaries have children that are approaching adolescence. It doesn't feel like we should be old enough for that.

[identity profile] mediumdave.livejournal.com 2005-12-06 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It's happening in my own family too, my oldest neice is now five feet tall and can hold her own at Scrabble.