Today is cake day!!!!

[martelvonc]

Today is the celebration of my 50th trip around the sun!

I was a honeymoon baby.
My parents were married Sept 15, 1958.
I was born June 25th, 1959.
Yes, the busy-body neighbors were doing the math.

When my mother went to the doctor, pre-wedding, and asked about birth control he SAID "Oh you'll be fine. Nobody gets pregnant on their honeymoon...."

Famous last words.

So here I am and I love my birthday. Getting older has never been an issue for me. If I like it or not I'm still gonna GET older.

I don't stress over my b-day. As a kid I thought I had a perfect b-day. It was always in the summer and it was always after school let out. We could have the party outside. The best!

I am 50 and vibrant and active. I still do cool things with cool friends. I go camping, I travel, I shoot archery, I can even shoot a balista and an onager. I do embroidery and do bone carving. I love to read and make things.

My health is very good even if there is more of me than in some previous years. Yet there is also less of me than in recent previous years. I'm in pretty good shape!

Though I may get older, I refuse to EVER be old.

Who's got cake?????

Comments

[wyvern-or.livejournal.com]

My father, who turned 70 last month, always tells me that age is between your ears. You will feel as old as you want to and nothing more. He stated that he no longer felt like a 20 year old on his birthday but closer to 40 now, darn arthritis.

I hope you always feel at least 30 years younger than you are too.

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

That is wise advice. In terms of my fun I will always feel about 12. :-)

[albreda.livejournal.com]

Have a very happy birthday, and as healthy and happy a NEXT fifty years as your first ones were! :)

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I fully believe I will be like my Uncle who is still kicking at 92.

[cbellfleur.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! Welcome to the second half of life!

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It will be a good half!

[narniarose.livejournal.com]

Happiest of birthdays to you!!!

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[shalandara.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

When my mother went to the doctor, pre-wedding, and asked about birth control he SAID "Oh you'll be fine. Nobody gets pregnant on their honeymoon...."

Funny, that was what the dr told my mom also (my oldest sister was a honeymoon baby also).

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Some how the statistics are building up against this rule... lol!

[shalandara.livejournal.com]

Well, your dr was perhaps a bit kinder than our family dr -- who in Sep of 1959 told my mom that as a bride she should expect to have children and why would she want birth control (of any form). (He was my family dr as a child, was incredibly nice, but also incredibly Catholic).

[cfram.livejournal.com]

Good for you.

Happy Birthday!

We have cake as it is also my son's birthday.

[greta-k.livejournal.com]

And happy natal day to your son, too!

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Lot's of cake!!!

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

We should have a cake crawl!

[greta-k.livejournal.com]

Happy Natal Day!

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Bit of a ditty

[3fgburner.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
May the Candles on your Cake
Burn like Cities in your Wake!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!

(The rest here, of course)

Tune (just the chorus of this)

Re: Bit of a ditty

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'll do my best! lol!

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!!

[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

I may not have cake, but I've got chocolate right now! :-D

Happy Half-Century!!! Let me know what it feels like because I'm going to get there myself in a few months!!! *grin*

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

I hate to disappoint you but you feel exactly the same as the day before! lol!

[apollonia.livejournal.com]

Happy Happy Birthday!

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!!

[lady-eliz.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[jaine-parr.livejournal.com]

Happy, happy birthday!

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

Hippo birdies!

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Thank Ewe!

[alscott93.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday, Your Excellency,
Happy Birthday to you!

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[nikulai.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday from a fellow cancer...

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

That's right! I remember! You're June 29th!
Happy birthday to you too!

[nikulai.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[elmsley-rose.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[khatun.livejournal.com]

Hey there! A belated Happy Birthday! I'm with you on BIRTHDAYS! Birthdays are cool. I am a firm believer in what my Mom used to tell me...."You're only as old as you thing you are"...and my other favorite - "I may get older, I may mature but durned if I'll ever grow up!"

People can age themselves mentally and it will affect them physically - I know, I watched a boss do that to herself one year. She was 42 or 43 and quite lively. Then her daughter, who had arrived when the lady was 21, had the audacity to go and have a baby, at age 21. All of a sudden it hits her "I'm a Grandmother"! Next day she comes to work with her hair up in a grandmotherly bun, wearing much more sedate clothing and everything was prefaced with "Well, now that I'm a grandmother..." It was truly depressing to watch.
So - you just go on bein' a youngun' and have fun - you'll most likely live longer that way.

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

It's more fun to be young! :-)

[khatun.livejournal.com]

ABSOTOOTLEE!!!! Mom always said "You're only as old as you think you are". Me, I stick with "I don't mind maturing but durned if I'll grow up!".

Kid at heart!