21….with 19 years experience….!

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!" (anon)

On the 25th February, I will be (hopefully) celebrating (and not commiserating - *GRIN*) my 21st birthday for the 19th time!  Yep, I’ve reached the “middle-age”, the end of the “Dirty Thirties”; “Naughty Forties”, 37 with VAT and handling fees”, “36 with Capital Gains Tax!”  and all those other ways of saying …I AM NOW 40!

I’m not scared, moody, depressed or unhappy about it.  I’m feeling excited, relaxed, hopeful, glad and downright looking forward to it.

Why” I’m going to relax my tight grip on life, realizing that my time is to be lived, loved, cajoled and even tempted into enjoyment – gym whenever (cos my body has been hit by the gravity ghoul!).  I want to party more (my kids are growing up!); wear my years with pride (life experience lines – not wrinkles!); stop thinking like an adult, and think and act more like a child – with abandon!

I’m going to go into my celebratory year like they do with cricketers – a benefit year : celebrating a whole year of being the greatest of the greatest – celebrate every day, every hour, and every minute!  Enjoy my new youth; take back my childhood, and go skidding into the sandpit of life with bucket and spade in hand, to mould and shape knowing that the sea will wash it clean and I can re-mould myself anew daily!

26th February: I am no longer 39, I have now turned the corner! People don’t ask me when my 41st birthday is, unlike they always asked when the BIG 40 would be! I’ve partied up a storm; celebrated with friends, family and champagne and have woken up a new me – older, wiser and a whole lot more cheeky …. Just watch this space!

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Bevskins xxx !!!

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