tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post4907512808807476064..comments2024-03-26T13:46:42.738-05:00Comments on 4 Quarters, 10 Dimes: Easter EggsDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-11601084681651227002017-04-17T09:53:29.568-05:002017-04-17T09:53:29.568-05:00You're probably right about that - it would ha...You're probably right about that - it would have been good to see.<br /><br />One of the things that I inherited was a brass mug that my brother and I got my dad when he turned 50, which seems like an age ago. I'm now 51. That's a strange thought indeed. Everyone's moved up a generation - my mom is now where my grandmother was, I'm now where my dad was, my kids are where I was. So many people live on as memories now, who were part of my life.<br /><br />It's melancholy, but it's a good kind of melancholy. I'll take it.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-49039198259312220112017-04-17T07:13:27.759-05:002017-04-17T07:13:27.759-05:00Don't know about the hair thing, I've pret...Don't know about the hair thing, I've pretty much had the same hairdo since they shaved my head in basic training at Lackland AFB.<br /><br />My sister called a few weeks ago, to reflect upon the fact that, had he lived, that day would have been our father's 100th birthday. Milestone. Or perhaps millstone, because it got me doin' the math. I am now <br />nearly 3 years older than my dad was when he died, making me the longest lived male on my dad's side of the family. He died back in '78 at the ripe old age of 61. Has it really been 39 <i>YEARS</i>???<br /><br />Weird. In my teens, I never thought i would ever live to be as old as my dad - and he was in his fifties at the time.<br /><br />It's odd, but had your dad & mine met out there in the real world (and a whole bunch of other circumstances lined up) I'm quite certain they would have become fast friends. The whole E-bunny & Santa thing in this post brought back a rush of memories that could best be described by the word ...<br /><br />Melancholy.<br /><br />LucyLucyInDisguisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08169432604954981941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-59282461361014357502017-04-16T19:53:01.068-05:002017-04-16T19:53:01.068-05:00Face it, Lucy - we're archetypes.
I get the s...Face it, Lucy - we're archetypes.<br /><br />I get the same way about trying to figure out how old I am. There was a time when I just <i>knew</i>, down to the half year. Knew it in my bones. This ended when I was around 8. Then I knew down to the year, which lasted into my mid-20s. Then I knew down to parts of decades, which lasted into my early 40s. Now I have to do math, and I am always vaguely surprised at a) the answer to my calculations and b) that old fart staring back at me from the mirror. There used to be more hair on top of that reflection, didn't there?Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-58236573672897057822017-04-16T19:11:44.910-05:002017-04-16T19:11:44.910-05:00."...at least until we explode from obesity. ...."...at least until we explode from obesity. <br />You have to have life goals. <br />We’ve pretty much conceded the whole Easter Bunny thing except as a rhetorical device now – it was fun while it lasted, but everyone is old these days ".<br /><br />Exploding from obesity has always been a goal I tried to avoid. Failed, but at least I tried.<br /><br />And, everyone is old? Speak for yerself there, bud. I, for one am not ...<br /><br />(wait. Let's see, uh carry the 4 and ... uh ... holy shit!)<br /><br />Never-mind.<br /><br />Nothing to see here folks, move along. <br /><br />Move along. Just an old fart lost track of his youth ...<br /><br />Lucy<br /><br />PS: Mmmmm. Chocolate.<br /><br />PPS: You really need to stop writing down <i>my memories</i> and posting them on <i>your</i> blog. I thing they crawl that poaching. (Hate my spell checker. Hate, hate, hate.)LucyInDisguisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08169432604954981941noreply@blogger.com