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Are you tired of me turning 50 today?   I kind of am and am glad that it is finally here. 

At some point in your life, you realize you are the older person people are looking up to. It is a weird feeling, because you feel like you are still 14 years old, albeit a 14 year old that understands mortgage payments, how to make a good all-purpose sauce, that the recommendations to drink water during an evening of drinking champagne is what separates you from your mates who have to stay in bed with a bucket beside them, and who understands that family and friends are everything.

And you look at pictures of yourself at 18 and the person in the picture looks like your daughter and you just want to say "enjoy yourself and stop trying to be perfect!"

Anyone else have one of those frilly blouses in 1980?

One of my best friends gave me an amazing gift - a hardcover book, in which she had compiled all of the significant milestones of my life from birth in pictures and stories, with quotes by my closest friends.  It is quite amazing!  When you get a gift like that, you count yourself amongst the blessed and you wonder how you got so lucky.


what a great idea for a gift!


I read with interest, thanks to a card given to me by another friend, all of the folks who are turning 50 this year:

Brad Pitt
Johnny Depp
JulieStyles (Julie - wouldn't it have been funny if that had been on the card - you are a celebrity to me!)
Quentin Tarantino
Phoebe Cates (we were obsessed with her as a model when she was in Seventeen magazine in the 70s!)
Lisa Kudrow
Vanessa Williams
Jeanne Tripplehorn
and the list goes on.  Director Stephen Soderbergh and I actually share the exact same birthday and year.  Now doesn't that make you wonder how quirky he is too?

So I recommend turning 50.  You all have become very dear to me and I just love the conversation.  You have become the Helene Hanffs to my Frank P. Doel (look that one up for obscurity, though I bet some of you knew that right off!).  I consider myself blessed when I find friends and acquaintances wherever and however they pop up.  As I have said before, this is like a piece of fluff in the internet universe, but it is a piece of fluff where you all are and therefore, and therefore means everything.

Have a great day!  I will be eating a piece of cake for you all today.  I think if you share a piece of cake with dozens of people there are no calories, right???

Happy Monday and Stay Safe Out There!

Oh and PS - We need to talk about the very end of Jody Foster's acceptance speech at the Golden Globes Last Night!  I was with her till the end, then started to wonder what the heck she meant?  Thoughts??????