Now That You're Older, Do You Have Big Birthday Celebrations, or Just Another Day?

It's always been just another day for me except when I turned 66 and then I yelled "hooray, I'm now eligible for full SS".
 

charlotta said:
Hey guys, I live alone and when I need a party whether birthday or whatever, I throw one. If I had never had the party I wished for, by damn, I would surely give the one I had always wanted. Get off your duffs and throw yourself a party! Publix makes a great chocolate/strawberry cake with butter icing. Yum.
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Swell idea. Where would you suggest I put guests in my Lilliputian-size granny flat? It's less than 300sf. Not to mention...hosting one's own birthday party seems to me to be on the same plane as hosting one's own wedding or baby shower.
 
Oh.........LIKE this reply!! Can't have the cake though, but still love a PARTY!!

A little IMPORTANT note though......during the times I was single w/no girlfriend, I really didn't celebrate anything. No birthday, no Christmas, no Thanksgiving.......none of them. That's just the way it was, but I didn't like it. It's nice to have someone to celebrate with, of which I didn't at the time during most of those "single" years. Then, I met my wife and that all changed. Loved it.


charlotta said:
Hey guys, I live alone and when I need a party whether birthday or whatever, I throw one. If I had never had the party I wished for, by damn, I would surely give the one I had always wanted. Get off your duffs and throw yourself a party! Publix makes a great chocolate/strawberry cake with butter icing. Yum.
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We only celebrate the biggies now. 60 - 65- 70 (done all of those) - 75. Got a couple of years to go before the next one. The one's in-between just rate a Birthday card, and maybe a lottery ticket. Might get lucky on them. At the op shop where I volunteer, if you want to celebrate your birthday, you take the cake and ask others to enjoy with you.
 
Grannyjo, I tell my family, from 1 to 25 your in your youth, from 25 to 50 your in middle age, from 50 to 75 are your senior years, and anything over 75 make you a wise mentor or just plain old.:eek:ld:
Grannyjo it is good to see you again. I must have missed you on the board. :wave:
 
Dame Warrigal said:
Yum Cha means "delicacy with tea" and it originated in Hong Kong and Singapore as far as I can remember.
It's very popular in Sydney.

Trolleys loaded with baskets of hot Chinese food are wheeled past your table and if you like the look of them you accept them. If not, you pass. This goes on until everyone is satisfied. It is more like finger food than most Chinese dishes. The meal is washed down with hot green tea. You pay for each basket consumed and the overall bill is usually quite reasonable.

Here's a link to the restaurant we will be visiting, complete with menu and some photographs.

http://www.bankstownsports.com/page/imperial_jade_palace.html

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Thanks Warri, looks like some good stuff there! We just enjoyed some Chinese food tonight, shrimp and beef curry, pork with lemongrass, beef with scallions, etc. There's an excellent Chinese restaurant near us that delivers.
 
My dad died suddenly from a heart attack, aged 59. Less than two weeks before he was at my place to celebrate his birthday. It was the last time I saw him and I'm so glad we threw him a family celebration. My memories are of him enjoying himself, blowing out his candles with my two little children helping him while we sang the obligatory Happy Birthday.

I'm so glad we bothered and from that day I've always believed we should never let a chance to celebrate pass by. In twelve months time some people might be missing from the table.

"Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die" is not a joke. It is a truism.
 
I can't say celebrations have ever floated my boat, but I have to submit to them from time to time.
 

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