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It's my 50th birthday! (lemmy.world)

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It's just a day in the grand scope of things, but here I am.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Happy birthday, Bones! I hope you have a great day of it!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Thanks Elaine!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Well you aren't dead which seems to be the preferred outcome for a 50th birthday. Congrats!

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Happy Birthday BonesOfTheMoon!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xir8t6

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Haha I love that song! Thank you.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Although enjoyable, that wasn't easy to remember at all!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

welcome to the club fellow but slightly younger Xer. hows your health and retirement savings.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Health actually quite good. Um, the other is not. I'll never retire. I'll die at my desk with my BPD patient screaming in my ear like she does each week that she needs to come off her medication because it's giving her a rash, the medication she's been on for like eight years, lol.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Did you grow up thinking the work hours would go down as we got older and the retirement age would go down as we made our way to star trek utopia. I did and I hate this cyberpunk future we live in.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Yes I did and it sucks.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Congrats! Oh, to be that young again!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Thank you! I honestly like 99% feel the same as I ever did. My knees ache somewhat, and I will admit I'd like some Botox, but I honestly am having an absolute breeze of menopause and my health, knock on wood, is as fine as ever. I'm pretty lucky.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

🎂

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Thanks!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

It was at 50 that I started to realize that I was on the downhill slope of my life. I had more days behind me than I have in front.

That is not a bad thing. Every day becomes more precious. It focuses you on things that are truly important and what legacy you may leave.

Happy birthday! I hope it and all the future ones are brilliant.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks!!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Noice. What are your birthday plans?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Doing some cross border Black Friday clothes shopping! While it's still safe to go to the US and the economy isn't fucked all to hell by the orange rapist. As they say on Letterkenny, if the Yanks have one thing sorted it's their shopping.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Sounds like a good day then, and since you're in the same "overall" geography as me, a beautiful day for it, to boot. Have fun!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I will! I love love love clothes shopping for great bargains.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Happy Birthday Bones! Hope you have an awesome day

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Thank you!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

It’s yo birfday

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I'm an old lady!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Bonne fête fiston!

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

That's 62 in base 8. Or 32 in base 16.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's absolutely true. Whatever that is haha.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nerdy way of expressing "age is just a number" :)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

You share it with my son, Happy Birthday

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Happy birthday! Are you gonna do anything fun today?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Cross border clothes shopping on Black Friday!

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Woo hoo! Congratulations.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's like a fabulous age to be. Thank you!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Happy birthday!!!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Thank you!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Happy birthday.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Any lessons?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

It really makes your life and the life of others better if you are friendly, welcoming, helpful, and polite. Especially when things are hard for them. You can't fix everything but you can be a light in the darkness for someone simply by making the effort to go a little bit further.

Also life is way too precious to stay in relationships with toxic narcissistic borderline family members.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

As we tend to say in the Netherlands, you have seen Abraham (or Sarah).

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Happy birthday bones, hope you have a great day!

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'd upvote you, but you're at 69, and it's your birthday, so ...good luck!

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Happy birthday to you!

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Happy birthday! Here’s to many more!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Thank you!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Happy birthday! Every decade i think, "this is the best!" Embrace being young enough to still do most of the things you enjoy and being old enough to (sometimes) know which ones to skip. https://youtu.be/NJf5DMVa5kQ

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Happy birthday 😊

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Welcome to the club, Abraham. All the best.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Welcome to the downslope of your first century.

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