…March 25, 2006. I’m trying to give you guys plenty of time to prepare.
Dale
Happy early Birthday Dale 
It’s too late for me, I turned that big 50 on July 9th
Cheers,
Kathy 
Back when I was 20, I used to think that 50 was really old. Now that I’m 40, well… 50 still seems really old. 
Mick Jager being over 60 seems really old…
even if I’m really old!!!
A warning:
Since turning 50, I:
*read every article I see on how to keep Alzheimer’s at bay
*find I am less patient with store clerks - I’m tired of being polite
*buy more skin softening products than ever before (p.s.: most of them don’t make any difference)
*get misty-eyed when I see middle-aged couples holding hands (who knew I’d never remarry?)
*read book after book after book - after all, there are only so many years left to get them all read!
*try to figure out if I’m old enough to be the mother of the nurses our clinic hires
*refuse to wear one of those gold chain thingys on my glasses, in spite of the fact that I lose them about 20 times a day (I’m old, but I’m not THAT old!)
…and on and on…
However, I’m off to hike three miles straight up a mountain (with one replaced knee and one knee going bad) with my daughter and our dogs. Then maybe I’ll whistle a few Irish tunes or do some painting - both of which I took up in the last 4-5 years.
THINK YOUNG, DALE!
Susan
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you. I turned 50 two days before 9/11.
For the next several weeks–months?–I spent too much time worrying about other things to fret about being a half-century old.
May you have a peaceful, happy, joyful celebration of what you’ve accomplished so far. If YOU start planning now, it ought to be special.
M
PS–I had a party with live music and dancing to celebrate “my last day in my 40s.”
Here’s what I want for my birthday: By the time it comes, this thread will be longer than the political mega-thread.
Happy to help with this, Dale. Here’s my contribution!
right…
Pages, posts or both?
Happy Birthday!
kids, they’re so funny.
In order to grow the thread to that proportion by your semicentennial, do we need to bring up the subject of Adam, Eve, the da Vinci Code, and Gaza?
I think an epic of pure fluff would be better.
So that’s a yes? 
…but, of course!
Beat you Dale - I turned 50 in January!
It’s really not so bad. 
March 5, 2006. You have plenty of time to shop for me, too. But please, everything in 50s only. 50 bottles of wine, 50 choco truffles, 50 virgin–(whoops, that’s the Muslim Weekenders list), ahem, 50 trad cds, and so on and so forth.
Hello Susan,
I know that this is kind of a public forum, but will you marry me? I am 61, have two good knees, and like Irish music. Dale is just a kid, and he is married, so don’t even think about him. “I want to hold your hand”
My mom is fifty, and that makes me feel old.
Tipple: “Kind of” a public forum?
Hi Weekenders
I’m two days after you on March 7th. Pisceans rule!!.
I would like the 50 virgins as well (then I probably would not see 51). But a nice flute player( preferably female) would do instead.
David
Hey Weeks - my son Noah has the same birthday as you (except he’s only gonna be 15!).