12 જાન્યુઆરી, 2011

It's my birthday. I'm 60!

Don't worry, young people. The view looks great from here.

117 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

Charlie Martin કહ્યું...

Happy birthday!

Leland કહ્યું...

Congratulations!!!

Charlie Martin કહ્યું...

I'm sorry I didn't have anything funnier to say, but it's not much of a straight line.

Unknown કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday!!! You look fabulous!

Tank કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday !!!

No reason you shouldn't be happy.

You've got a job and a blog that you love. You're healthy (or else you're really faking it with the skating, skiing, etc), and you've got one big plus you did not expect two years ago - MeadeMan - out of the blue, love - yeah, you're pretty lucky.

Enjoy your day.

Revenant કહ્યું...

Happy birthday!

George Sewell કહ્યું...

And time truly does move faster...

michaele કહ્યું...

As long as health stays good, age truly doesn't matter. You'll have fun being a vibrant, lively, beautiful woman in her 60's. You are a great ambassador for living life well.
Happy Birthday.
I have my 63rd coming up in 4 days and it amuses me to be as old as I am and not feel old at all.

Civil Sense કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday! Have a wonderful day.

Cedarford કહ્યું...

Glad you reached 60 with a lot of accomplishments behind you and ahead of you, happy, and in good health.

Many more decades of the same.

Rdkraus covered the "landscape" pretty good, but I'll add the at times stunning photos you've done as something else to be very happy about.
(Something has to capture the "landscape" in memory, after all....pics+words is a good combo)

Temujin કહ્યું...

You're my new standard for 60. I'm just behind you, slowly catching up.

vet66 કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday! Been there done that. By the way, 60 is the new 39. Have fun and enjoy the view.

Roman કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday! Turning 60, on you it looks great.

Mutnodjmet કહ્યું...

Like yourself, both my mother and my mom-in-law still look incredibly beautiful post-50's. I think the mix of humor, with a desire to keep intellectually and physically engaged, is the real "Fountain of Youth". Thanks for being an inspiration to the nearly 50-year old, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Salamandyr કહ્યું...

Happy birthday!

ricpic કહ્યું...

Ho hum, another sexy sexagenerian.

rhhardin કહ્યું...

It must be Rush's birthday.

TosaGuy કહ્યું...

HB AA!

Mr. Bingley કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday fellow Januarian!

Ernesto Ariel Suárez કહ્યું...

I saw it on Facebook (although we are not "friends"). Happy Birthday, professor!!

MikeR કહ્યું...

In Yiddish, we say "Till a hundred and twenty (years)." So you're right in the middle! Congratulations.

By the way, what do you say to someone on his hundred-and-twentieth birthday? "Have a great day!:)"

TMink કહ્યું...

Happy birthday! I was 51 on the 11th. Lets both have a great year!

Trey

Joe કહ્યું...

(The Crypto Jew)
Happy Birthday, and may you and Meade celebrate many more together and happily...

Sasha Amorosa કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday Annie Liebling !

jungatheart કહ્યું...

Happy birthday, Althouse...here's to another 60!
~clink~

Scott M કહ્યું...

The three stages of adulthood:

Young
Middle-age
"You look wonderful"

chickelit કહ્યું...

C'est la plus belle des jeunesses: la jeunesse de l'esprit quand on n'est plus jeune.

-Paul Léautaud

Trapper Townshend કહ્યું...

Happy birthday!

Ignorance is Bliss કહ્યું...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!1!11!!

Bob_R કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday! You're never too old to do something immature.

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...
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અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

Happy birthday! Enjoy your special day. Create a special memory.

Bart Hall (Kansas, USA) કહ્યું...

Thanks to you and the Meadester for demonstrating to many on this blog that 60 really is the high summer of life.

With 60 barely visible in my rear-view mirror, I have only three suggestions beyond the usual hedonistic ones.

a) Find yourself a place and a coach where you can lift free weights, not machines. Even beginning now, weightlifting will at ten or fifteen quality years to your life. You may die at the same age, but you'll have squared off the curve of decline.

b) Begin to think of each decade in your life as a month in the year, and each three days of that month as one year. You are at the beginning of August. On the appropriate 'season of life' day each year, take some time to savor where you are, enjoying the delights of that day and reminding yourself to do the same with life.

c) Don't be shy about doing something allegedly outrageous for your age. I'm 62, and in a couple of weeks there's an adopted newborn coming into our lives. My school-age grandchildren are delighted. Find something equally out of the standard stodgy pattern for yourselves ... and dive into it.

I look forward to celebrating the Silver Anniversary of your 60th birthday.

ken in tx કહ્યું...

Dittos to all above.

Badger Down Under કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday from a fellow 1/12 er

fernstalbert કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday to wonderful you! I hope you are surrounded by family and friends on this special day. cheers

Patrick કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday, and many more.

David કહ્યું...

Happy birthday. You are in the good part of aging. The bad part does not come for quite a while yet.

Lincolntf કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday, have a great day.

MayBee કહ્યું...

Happy happy day!

The Crack Emcee કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday, Ann!

Believe it or not, I appreciate you greatly.

Enjoy your day.

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

I suppose you'll be asking us to buy your birthday gifts through your Amazon link . . .

magpie કહ્યું...

Many happy returns...

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

Look at the bright side: you're already a decade past the WAYSA stage on Roissy's dating market value test, so there's nothing more left to lose.

Happy birthday.

Peter

Tyrone Slothrop કહ્યું...

Happy birthday, Professor, and many more. I'm right behind you!

Chip Ahoy કહ્યું...

Flappy Birdsday two Jews.

Phil 314 કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday.

Have some beer and some of those mushrooms from last summer (after a good day of ice skating of course)

Progressively Defensive કહ્યું...

I'm a new daily "subscriber" to your blog, but have been familiar with you through Instapundit. You seem like a lovely lady. Happy Birthday and thanks for brightening my day with your information, insights, and humor.

Paul Worthington કહ્યું...

Happy birthday!

Known Unknown કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday, make it a good one.

Jessica કહ્યું...

You share a birthday with Rush, and my husband! Happy Birthday to my favorite blogger.

Robert કહ્યું...

What ricpic said.

Meade's a lucky guy.

Many happy returns!

Unknown કહ્યું...

Tertium Quid said...

I'm glad the view is good, but as you've said before, always mind the rearview.

From what we've seen, the rear view is pretty good, as well, although Meade is the ultimate authority.

The Crack Emcee said...

Happy Birthday, Ann!

Believe it or not, I appreciate you greatly.

Enjoy your day.


Hey, Crack, put up a picture of Ann as an antidote.

Sixty Bricks કહ્યું...

Bonne Anniversaire !

Sam કહ્યું...

Happy birthday!

wv: idareda, the new triple dog dare app for your iphone.

Peter V. Bella કહ્યું...

Bet wishes.

Hazy Dave કહ્યું...

Actually, 57 is the new 39, but 64 is the new 40. 60 is 3C, but people unfamiliar with hexadecimal won't really get it, so, let's say it's somewhere between 39 and 40. I trust that's all the computer engineering blather you need for today. Happy Day!

sunsong કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday! May this be your best year ever.

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday!

The view probably looks great because your eyes are going.

Richard Dolan કહ્યું...

Welcome to the club. Not so bad, even if it might have been fun to linger on the outside for a little while longer.

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday! But go easy on the ice skating. A broken hip is bad on older folks.

At least that's what my doctor tells me now that I'm an older folk.

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

haha! As simple as it is, this posting taps on most people's fear of aging. Thanks for the insight!

Best wishes

Pastafarian કહ્યું...

Happy birthday. Have a shot of really good expensive whisky for me. Or tequila -- that's great for birthdays.

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

Has anyone actually seen Althouse and Limbaugh in the same room at the same time????

This all seems very fishy.

Bob કહ્યું...

Happy birthday, Ann.

Terrye કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday.

Beldar કહ્યું...

Happy birthday, Professor Althouse -- and thank you for the entertainment and enlightenment I've found here.

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

Happy birthday!

I like to sit down on my birthday and recall all I can from each decade of my life. It's a nice antidote to "it's all going by so fast."

Scott M કહ્યું...

You look wonderfull, AA. Happy Birthday!!!

But for the mediating Meade influence, would you have gone rogue cougar by now?

kent કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday, Professor!!! ;)

Bruce Hayden કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday! And many more in the future.

Peter Hoh કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday!

Keep walking. Briskly. They say it's a good thing.

nina કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday! Isn't it a blogging anniversary as well? Or did I miss that?

Caroline કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday!

I don't need to tell you to enjoy yourself. You've turn enjoyment into an art form (with your photography of course). Just keep doin' what your doin'.

Freeman Hunt કહ્યું...

Happy birthday! It's a great day to be sixty.

Matt Brown કહ્યું...

Happy birthday! Here's to 60 more!

coketown કહ્યું...

Happy birthday! Here's to another 60 years! Oh wait. Here's to a fruitful twenty or thirty!

FWBuff કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday, Professor!

Lee Merrick કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday, Ann. I second rdkraus.

Roux કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday!!!!

James Wigderson કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday Ann. It's my son's birthday today, too. He's ten.

I hope you both get as much cake as you want.

JAL કહ્યું...

Hey Professor and lucky Meade --

Our view of you is pretty good from here, too.

Happy Day! Happy Year!

William કહ્યું...

Happy birthday. Now you know for certain that you will not die young. You look lovely and alive. It's no big thing to reach the age of sixty, but to reach that age with a sense that the possibilities of life and love have not been exhausted is something special. Congratulations to you and Meade for writing an episodic chapter instead of an epilogue or a footnote to your lives.

Ann Althouse કહ્યું...

Thanks, everyone!

Ann Althouse કહ્યું...

"I suppose you'll be asking us to buy your birthday gifts through your Amazon link . . ."

Just buy yourself something! (Using the box in the sidebar... and I'll get a cut.)

Clyde કહ્યું...

Happy birthday, Ann, and may you have many more to come.

In my family, we've developed a tradition. A local Mexican restaurant offers people a free meal on their birthday, and part of the festivities is getting your picture taken wearing a big sombrero while eating a dish of fried ice cream. In recent years, we celebrated Dad's 70th birthday there and last year, my 50th. One time a few years back my kid brother got to wear the sombrero while visiting from New York. It looks silly, of course, but of such things are memories made.

caplight કહ્યું...

Take good notes, Professor. I will meet you at 60 in July. Congratulations!

tree hugging sister કહ્યું...

Happy Burfday from me, major da and the whole of the Swilling crew!

vnjagvet કહ્યું...

One of my daughters is 31 today and my grenddaughter turned 9 months.

The Hall of Fame NBA player Dominique Wilkins is 51 today. When he found out twenty years ago that my daughter shared his birthday he gave her his autograph

A bunch of things to celebrate today.

Have many more great birthdays.

howzerdo કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday & Many More! Same day as my mother (she's 78). When I was a kid, we made homemade ice cream to celebrate her day, keeping up a tradition that her mother started. We used snow to chill the cannister in the ice cream maker.

Unknown કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday! Thanks for the entertaining and thought provoking posts.

kate કહ્યું...

happy, happy day ann! <3

jp કહ્યું...

Sorry Ann.

The Democrates took your birthday cake!

They sliced it up and gave it to people who aren't fortunate enough to have a birthday today.

Methadras કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday!!! The sun is the same, in a relative way, but your older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Sally કહ્યું...

Have a wonderful day, Ann! I feel like I live vicariously through you and Meade. I love raising my children, but I also look forward to the adventures that await my husband and me in a decade or so. Your love story is magical. Thank you for sharing bits with us! And thank you for this site - one of only two I check every day and throughout the day.

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

Methadras,

That reminds me of the birthday song from college:

(sung like a funeral dirge)

Happy Birthday (stomp)
Oh, Happy Birthday (stomp)
People dying everywhere
Sickness, sorrow and despair
On your Birthday (stomp)
Oh, Happy Birthday (stomp)
One day closer to your death

MamaM કહ્યું...

Vitality: The capacity to live, grow, or develop; physical or intellectual vigor; energy; power to survive.

Celebrating your 60 years of vitality today. May you be blessed with many and much more.

Nora કહ્યું...

Happy birthday, Ann!!!
May your look be good forever.
May your interest in all things near and far never dry.
May you continue shearing your curiosity and thirst for living with us for many years to come

opfor311 કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday,

May the road rise up to meet you, may the sun shine upon your face, and may you be in heaven for a half an hour before the Devil knows you've died.

Thanks for scouting out the country ahead of us.

BJM કહ્યું...

Any birthday surprises?

Happy Birthday Althouse, I wish you and Meade many, many more.

Trooper York કહ્યું...

You know old farts are the best farts.

Happy birthday.

le Douanier કહ્યું...

Happy B-day!

Keep full of piss and vinegar!!

[I'm not sure what piss and vinegar means, it's a pre-me term, but I'm sure that it's a good thing, as any hexagenarian will tell you.]

aronamos કહ્યું...

Happy birthday, professor.

Merny11 કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday Ann! Hope you have many, many, many more!

Joan કહ્યું...

Many happy returns of the day! :)

Christy કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday! You certainly set the standard for aging well. Many happy returns of the day!

HKatz કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday, Professor.

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

Happy birthday!

I enjoy your blog very much Professor.

Charlie Eklund કહ્યું...

Happy birthday!

Elliott A કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday! Althouses are special!

Steve Pierson કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday, Miss Ann.

Lyle કહ્યું...

Happy birthday!!!

Steven કહ્યું...

Happy birthday!

Brian O'Connell કહ્યું...

Happy Birthday, Ann!

Unknown કહ્યું...

Happy birthday, Althouse!

maherlaw કહ્યું...

We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ~Emily Dickinson

Happy Birthday. Thanks for helping us be newer every day...

Frank કહ્યું...

And no wiser and ever more in love with your own uninformed opinions.

Lawyers and law professors should have expiration dates after which they should retire or change professions.

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