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Guess who is 70 years old today. (No, silly. I mean me.) nt (Original Post) tblue37 Aug 2020 OP
Happy Birthday! Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #1
Happy birthday, youngster. You're the same age as my first niece! Glorfindel Aug 2020 #2
Have a very happy birthday tblue. How will you celebrate? 42bambi Aug 2020 #3
A friend I haven't seen since the lockdown is coming in to bring me a present & have dinner with tblue37 Aug 2020 #18
Happy Birthday......and I'll be there on September 12th. a kennedy Aug 2020 #4
That's my birthday, too! Ohiogal Aug 2020 #9
John and Jacquline Kennedy got married on September 12th, 1953. a kennedy Aug 2020 #13
I never knew that! Ohiogal Aug 2020 #19
Have a wonderful Birthday! Freedomofspeech Aug 2020 #5
Happy Birthday ... frazzled Aug 2020 #6
This is a non-fattening cake, of course! nocoincidences Aug 2020 #8
Looks delicious! frazzled Aug 2020 #11
I know, I'm getting terribly bummed about 70. a kennedy Aug 2020 #14
Think young! frazzled Aug 2020 #21
Awwwww, thanks for the rose. a kennedy Aug 2020 #23
When they installed the knee, did they leave access to a grease fitting? JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 2020 #22
ha ha, no, no access to a grease fitting. a kennedy Aug 2020 #24
A very happy birthday to you Wicked Blue Aug 2020 #7
Dennis Elliott? Harker Aug 2020 #10
Happy Birthday, tblue37! Mike 03 Aug 2020 #12
Happy B day. safeinOhio Aug 2020 #15
Happy 70th Birthday tblue37! Have a great livetohike Aug 2020 #16
Happy birthday!! ralps Aug 2020 #17
Happy birthday! Alacritous Crier Aug 2020 #20
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! bluestarone Aug 2020 #25
You don't look a day over 69... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #26
70 is the new 50 North Shore Chicago Aug 2020 #27
You're older than me. But not by much. LOL. NT raccoon Aug 2020 #28
Happy Birthday! Archae Aug 2020 #29
Imma little late Wawannabe Aug 2020 #30
Happy Day! PennyK Aug 2020 #31
Omgosh! Missed your bday Alliepoo Aug 2020 #32
It was, actually. Thanks! nt tblue37 Aug 2020 #33
Thanks to everyone for all the kind birthday wishes! I meant to say so on my birthday, but I spent tblue37 Aug 2020 #34

tblue37

(65,409 posts)
18. A friend I haven't seen since the lockdown is coming in to bring me a present & have dinner with
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 05:04 PM
Aug 2020

me. We'll probably just pick up a pizza, since they do curbside, and we'll maintain social distance, but it will be good to see him. I have been isolating myself quite thoroughly except for a grocery run every 2 or 3 weeks. I'm just going to take a small risk to celebrate my birthday and hope for the best.

Here in Kansas it's not too bad yet except for a couple of places.

Ohiogal

(32,012 posts)
9. That's my birthday, too!
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 04:32 PM
Aug 2020

Although I’ve got a few years yet until I hit 70.

Happy Birthday tblue37!

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
6. Happy Birthday ...
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 04:23 PM
Aug 2020

and join the crowd. The big seven-oh happened to me back in March. I had to make my own birthday dinner, since there was no way we were going out, and the whole restaurant take-out thing wasn't quite off the ground yet. Frankly, I was happy to have that birthday fly under the radar. Though, sadly, it's my son's birthday too, and we usually celebrate together. It was a Zoom joint birthday this year.

a kennedy

(29,675 posts)
14. I know, I'm getting terribly bummed about 70.
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 04:51 PM
Aug 2020
I know it’s just a number, but have noticed ALL the crap that is happening to me. Sagging skin, EVERYWHERE, old age spots all over, bruises I don’t know where I get em from, hair thinning, aches and pains, one total knee replacement that has this funny sound when bent a certain way, oh yah, love becoming 70.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
21. Think young!
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 06:12 PM
Aug 2020

Seventy is not that old (yeah, I've got the pain in the hip and the occasional unidentified bruise). At least when I think about my parents: my dad lived to 100 and my mother, still living, will turn 95 soon. She still calls me her cute baby. (She doesn't see well.)

I get depressed about the skin and the hair and all sometimes, and then I kick myself in the pants and try to accept it gracefully. 70 is an awkward age: I refuse to feel old till I'm 85.

At least we can be young at heart, which I'm sure you are.





JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,350 posts)
22. When they installed the knee, did they leave access to a grease fitting?
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 06:12 PM
Aug 2020

Old suspension parts need a bit of lube to stay loose and stop the rust.

Happy birthday!

Hint: Google "Qualified Charitable Distribution". Next year, you'll be eligible for this benefit, if you have an IRA. It's a good one, passed by congress, signed by BHO.


Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
12. Happy Birthday, tblue37!
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 04:40 PM
Aug 2020

It's good luck to have a birthday on a day when so many good things happened (politically)!

 

AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
26. You don't look a day over 69...
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 08:56 PM
Aug 2020

-

How the hell do you do it?

Wait a minute, today IS a day over 69.

Never mind.

Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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tblue37

(65,409 posts)
34. Thanks to everyone for all the kind birthday wishes! I meant to say so on my birthday, but I spent
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 07:23 PM
Aug 2020

a lot of time that day and yesterday on the phone fielding calls from family and friends, and also had a socially distanced dinner with my best friend the evening of my birthday. I hadn't seen him in person since early March, so it was very nice.

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