21 to 40...

1. I will be 40 years old in 21 days.
2. I have never been freaked out about milestone birthdays.
3. Until this year.
4. I have always been the youngest in any group I've been with.
5. I am the youngest person in my office.
6. This does not keep me from being freaked out about turning 40.
7. 40 seems old.
8. I am not old.
9. Did you know there are entire webistes about turning 40?
10. This does not make me feel better.
11. I share my birthday with Kelsey Grammer (Frazier), Jennifer Love Hewitt, Rue McLanahan & Tyne Daly and Mary Chapin Carpenter.Only one of them is younger than me.
12. The Communist Manifesto was published on my birthday, 120 years before I was born
13. Sometimes my birthday falls on Presidents' Day.
14. Not this year.
15. There will be a Total Lunar Eclipse on my birthday this year.
16. I'm not sure how to feel about that.
17. Other people who will turn 40 this year:  Will Smith, Cuba Gooding, Hugh Jackman, Celine Dion, Eric Bana, Kylie Minogue, Jorja Fox, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Debra Messing, Carnie Wilson, Ricky Lake, Parker Posey, Daniel Dae Kim, Carrie Ann Inaba, Casper Van Dien, LL Cool J, Chad Lowe, Sarah McLachlan, Mary Lou Retton, Edward Burns, Lisa Marie Presley, Ashley Judd, Gary Coleman, Josh Brolin, Chynna Phillips, Kelly Hu, Jules Asner, Jeri Ryan, Lisa Loeb, Aaron Eckhart, Mark McGrath, Jim Caviezel, Paula Cole, Patricia Arquette, Mark Vanderloo, Tony Hawk, Timothy Olyphant, Beetlejuice, Scott Wolf, Yasmine Bleeth, Bobby Blake, Tracy Lords, Billy Crudup, Robert Gant, Brandi Chastain, Kristin Chenowith, Julian MacMahon, Marcus Schenkenberg, Gillian Anderson, Billy Boyd, Cynthia Watros, Mike Piazza, Guy Ritchie, Danny Nucci, Mark Anthony, Jane Krakowski, Vanessa Marcil, Tracy Morgan, Lucy Liu, Brendan Fraser, Lisa Marie, Lauralee Bell
18. I don't know who some of those people are.
19. I'm pretty sure they are all richer than me.
20. Everyone I graduated from high school with has already turned 40.
21. Ha!

Comments

[anne]

on my 40th I gave myself the gift of "power"}
At 40 I am old enough never to have to "defer to my elders" again!

I'm 55 now.
I might be scared of turning 60
but heck, at 65 I get the "senior's discount"!