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My 40th birthday will be Saturday, December 13th. I’m pondering what this means to me.
I’m pretty sure that I’ve lived more than half my life already – I smoked like a chimney for years (I quit 14 years ago – YAY!) and although I eat very healthily these days and get regular exercise, I remain very fat. Don’t get me wrong – I’d rather be fat than still smoking (I was less fat as a smoker)!
I guess my only true regret is having to deal with these mysterious allergies that have been pestering me for the last year. I wanna be forty and fabulous, but mostly I’m forty and wheezy. Other than that and some peri-menopause woes, I’m pretty good healthwise and that is such a blessing!! I ‘ve known quite a few people in the last 3 years especially who have had cancer (and not everyone has beat the disease unfortunately) and so much of your life goes on hold when you are ill. The daily challenges are SO much harder when your health isn’t good and I am so thankful.
But it could all end tomorrow – and I guess that’s OK too. I would like to see the kids all grown and happily settled into adulthood, but none of us know what tomorrow brings, do we? I’ve got lots of wonderful yarn to knit*…life is good!
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I’ve been very much into the Stephenie Meyer books over the last year and a half and got a chance to go see the movie, Twilight, last Wednesday. It’s really good in some places – way better than I expected, and in other bits, it is pretty awful – worse than I expected. It’s a long movie (2 hours) but the time just flew by for me, and I will go see it again a few times (rather unusual for me). I’ve read a good bit about why this particular story is so fascinating – Studmuffin sent me this link to a really nice article about it (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200812/twilight-vampires ),
but I don’t think any of the things I’ve read have hit on why I find them so good (I won’t bore you with it all now….I’ll wait ’til later). But there are couple of things that I just love about this Twilight phenomenon that I want to share now:
….and yes, I finished the new book, all 700+ pages of it in a little under 5 hours. Y’all, you really need to read those books!