Okay, it is official! I am old! That 5 in front of my age has now been replaced with a 6. To me, age is just a number, a rather large one now. It’s the aches and pains, the inability to sleep, those are the things that make me feel old, not the number. I sat watching TV the night before with a hot pack on my shoulder and the a cold pack on my Achilles.
I told my sister yesterday that I thought Dad was old when he turned 60. Now I know he was!
All that said, I do still find ways to feel young. A bikini on the beach. Or on this day, my second improv class!
As a means of making my evening interesting, you can see I wore my Happy Birthday tiara. I wore it all night and it did indeed make my evening interesting! My outfit was cute, casual and so comfortable!
Before class, I grabbed dinner and a few Happy Hour special margaritas in a crowded restaurant. Me, seated like any other woman at the bar, eating.
Then class started and I had another delightful time! No real stories here, just me honing my “craft” with my other classmates.
Then it got interesting as I did not want to evening to end just yet. I stopped at another restaurant and sat at a fairly empty bar. The bartender wished me a Happy Birthday (my tiara at work!) and I ordered a glass of wine. She then brought me a complementary glass of champagne as a birthday gift! When I asked for the check is said $0.00. Now I had to protest. Since I carry little to no cash, I had no way of tipping her, so she charged me $1 for wine. I tipped her what I would have paid for the wine with a tip. As I stand up, I notice a woman at the end of the bar. I walk over to say hello.
Well, long story short, after us girls gabbing for about an hour, I left another place where I entered knowing no one with two very good friends and a wonderful experience of love and acceptance! July 7, 2021, a great day!
PS 2025: That all sounds like so much fun, right? And I am sure it was. But I have zero memory of it. Literally none. I remember the tiara, I remember the outfit. Everything else is an absolute blank. Shoot me now… I am some combination of old, drunk, distracted, whatever. Me, oh, my. You would think I could remember yakking with someone for an hour, nope!
We are occasionally rerunning early posts, and it is striking to me how much better I am at my presentation than I was just a few years ago. Sometimes I shake my head and wonder how I had the nerve to walk out the door with such awful makeup skills.
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Love the outfit and hair 💕
Thanks Sher!!
I love your hair it looks so good on you
Yes 60 to me seems old as well and yes aches and pains, but I push on and just enjoy my life as much as I can, such as my vacation this week at the lake.
Happy birthday and God bless you
Rach
I have indeed been blessed! Thanks Rach, my dear!!
Great outfit, Kandi, it looks very cute and comfortable. I’ve always felt that age is just a number, and I usually feel a lot younger when I am dressed. Wishing you a belated happy birthday, and enjoying your stories of simple acceptance in your life. ❤
Thank you so much my dear friend!!
Happy Birthday Kandi. Hope you had a great day !!!
Hugs…
I did my dear! Thanks and I miss you……
Happy Birthday, Kandi, I am glad you had such a good time. One good thing about hitting 60 is that you are in a different age group for races and qualifying times for Boston get longer. Enjoy
Frannie, don’t think I don’t know that! Thank you, you are very kind!
I’m 69 tomorrow and have embraced it with both hands. I just think that like so many of us who survived the days before internet and thinking we were alone in our dressing, these are our golden years, not the golden girls.
That one made me smile!! Thanks darling!!
Kandi,
Happy birthday and may I wish you many more ! Truthfully I’m jealous as I wish my age still started with a 6* , nothing we can do to stop the clock 1 . I accept my age and make the most of it , my body still functions my mind occasionally but for all that life is good , many people are far worse off than me so I try and give them a helping hand .
I could not think of a better way to celebrate your entering the sixth decade of existence! I know how it feels and how aches are more noticeable and frequent. However, we are as old or as young as we allow us to feel. Aging is inevitable but aging with grace is in our hands, and your spit=rit and personality tell the world you are in your twenties, Kandi!
Keep being the angel and impetuous spirit that you are, as you shed light and inspiration on all of use!
Love ya and feliz cumpleaños, mi querida amiga!
Or as they say, you are only as old as the woman you feel …
As mine is double-figures younger than me I’m feeling pretty good!
While that’s not the reason I married her, (didn’t even come in to the equation, she just happens to be perfect) living with someone a decade younger than you and who looks at least 10 years younger than her age, is a hell of an incentive to arrest your own decline and to try to look much better. And as a member of the 6 club, it is fortunate this ‘hobby’ of ours has the added benefit of (usually) removing years from our look …
Amazing Kandi, you don’t look any older now. You are clearly doing something right!
And Teresa – you look like you start with a 6!