Birthday!
Posted on July 13, 2008
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I turned 40 this past week. It wasn’t quite as awful as I had imagined, but it did seem to leave a very small “psychic stain” behind… I’m still working through some of the stuff from the Upcoming Milestone post but it’s really not all that dramatic.
The birthday day itself was quite nice. Most folks at work weren’t aware and I didn’t spend much time telling anyone. I prefer calm days at work without age insults. Just sayin’.
Months back I had assured my wife that a big bash was not something I desired — especially not a surprise party. My brother and his family drove up from Colo. Springs and we had a nice supper and some awesome homemade carrot cake (with cream cheese frosting) that my wife concocted. It was all quite mellow.
After supper I had to run the middle kid up to TKD. When I got home our neighbors to the north wandered over to say howdy and wish me a happy BD. I went in to get them a beverage and when I came back out the neighbors to the south were walking over. Back in for more beverages. When I came back out again several more sets of neighbors were crossing over.
About then I realized that I was hosting a small surprise party 
Just some of the neighborhood and it was quite pleasant and fun. We have great neighbors and getting some wool pulled over my eyes was just fine by me. I never even saw it coming.
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It is always nice to find someone else that can state that these “milestones” are not as bad as they expected. Glad you had a great birthday Chris.
Trent
Happy Belated Birthday!
Thank you for blazing the trail ahead of me and doing it with quiet dignity and grace. (I love Young Frankenstein!)
Congrats on the friendly get-together instead of a surprise party too. Sounds like it was quite relaxed and fun.
Happy belated bday, buddy
It’s good to see you survived the stepover to that side of the ageline
Thanks guys