My 50th is coming up...

scottickes

scottickes

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I'll be 50 years old on May 15th. My little brother has decided to honor my milestone by mailing me a birthday card for every year I've been around. So far, I've gotten 25 birthday cards from him. 25 more to go!

My wife has created a birthday card shrine on the sofa table in our family room. Anybody else have families that enjoy this kind of fun?

My wife actually took the time to look at the cost of each card, and figured out the postage. My brother and his wife have spent $37.80 so far and they are only half way done with me.

I get anywhere from 1 to 5 cards each day in the mail. Once all 50 cards are here, I'll take a photo of my birthday card shrine. It's getting to be a pretty large display!
 
The real question is, do they all have money in them?

You old fart! I turned the big 3-0 this April, and my body feels like it's 73 :confused:.

Congrats on the pending b-day!

--nathan
 
JT, I've got bar fight scars that are 30 years old as well. You see, I was born in a bar, and some jackass threw a glass of cheap scotch on my mom as I was being born. After I cut my own umbilical cord with my bare gums and clamped off the cut ends with a mouse trap I found in the corner, I broke a bottle on the bar and showed the fella why what he did was a bad idea. Unfortunately, a piece of the glass broke off as I stabbed the jerk through the distal tib-fib joint and came back and cut the bridge of my nose. Ruined my underwear and hand modeling career.

Well, now that I think about that scar...it was either that, or a motorcycle wreck into a barbed wire fence about 6 years ago. Kinda foggy on it. :confused::confused:

--nathan
 
I've got a running thing that I do for my sister's birthdays. I go to K-mart/shopko/walmart and buy a bunch of crap in the bargain section for a few dollars. I also get her an actual gift and then box all of them up. This way it always looks like she is getting tons of gifts from me. This year I got her a plunger head, some paper cupcake liners with candy canes on them, a charger for a cell phone she doesn't have, and four unmatching table placemats. Her actual gift was the first season of her favorite TV show. I couldn't find a card that I thought was funny enough so I got her a "happy 7th birthday" kid's card and drew in a small two in front of the 7 with a crayon.
 
silver_pilate said:
YOU'RE the foggy bit of the....

SHUT UP, RICHARD!! :grumpy:

--nathan
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Feeling a bit schizophrenic, are we?

Garrett, that's pretty funny. My daughter has a birthday coming up, and our mama cat had a litter a couple weeks ago... I told her since I couldn't find homes for the kittens, she's getting kitten mittens for her B-day. :D Oddly, she was not amused. :confused:
 
go mike said:
Sounds like a lot of fun opening them! Do they all say stuff inside?
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Most of them just have their signatures inside. However, number 25 did have a little bit of wisdom from my sister in law. It said, "You may be getting older, but if you think any of these will have money in them, you're getting stupider."

I about pissed my pants from laughing at that one.
 
Come on old man (JT....and I guess you too, Scott), please tell me you got that bit of movie trivia?!?

Sorry to hijack the thread, Scott. I need to go take my medicine now.

--nathan
 
silver_pilate said:
Come on old man (JT....and I guess you too, Scott), please tell me you got that bit of movie trivia?!?

Sorry to hijack the thread, Scott. I need to go take my medicine now.

--nathan
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I'm not a big movie buff, unless it's Star Trek. So, I didn't get it, but not because I'm old, but because I watch sports and star trek or the science channel for the most part. My wife is always amazed that I have no idea who some actors and actresses are. I don't have a clue when it comes to that stuff.

I guess you could say I'm an athletic geek!
 
scottickes said:
Most of them just have their signatures inside. However, number 25 did have a little bit of wisdom from my sister in law. It said, "You may be getting older, but if you think any of these will have money in them, you're getting stupider."

I about pissed my pants from laughing at that one.
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Good thing about enlarged prostates at your age. Harder to wet yourself :p ;)
 
go mike said:
Good thing about enlarged prostates at your age. Harder to wet yourself :p ;)
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You had to go there...didn't you? I am actually having my prostrate checked in about 3 weeks. My doctor is a woman, so it's even a little more embarassing.

and.........if you're profile is up to date, you're only 15....you're time is coming, young man...trust me! :p
 
Last year one of the gals at the store turned 50. She is very shapely and constantly exercises to keep herself young looking. She looks exactly like a life sized Barbie Doll ( really). Half her life ago, she was a Playboy waitress in Atlantic City.

She was dreading the Big 50, and forbade us to celebrate it or even mention it.Being the polite and respectful; person that I am, I got a bunch of black poster board and cut it into 12X15 squares. I stacked 150 of them up, drilled the corners, and bolted them into a block. I cut the stack out on the band saw into a bunny rabbits. I now had 150 black bunnies.
On the Friday before her birthday (which was on Sunday), we put 50 bunnies everywhere in the store. Open a drawer..there was a bunny. Go in the rest room...there were three Bunnies, Open the safe, pull a file,open a catalog,get a ring box,....etc. She had a great laugh, and it really took the edge off. After we closed for the day, we all went to a local place for a drink and light dinner. I had given 50 bunnies to the restaurant owner, and they were hanging all over the place from the ceiling. He had made a centerpiece from some,too. We really had a good time, and she left in a happy mood. On Sunday morning, one of the gals and I went to her house at 5AM, with the other 50 black bunnies, that I had glued sticks to. We put them everywhere in the front yard.
She gets up at 6:30AM and goes for a walk/run every morning. We were long gone by then, but he husband and son told us that everyone in the neighborhood her her scream when she jogged out the door and down the drive.
That was over a year ago, and we still find a bunny in the store once in a while. She says she took one of the bunnies,and some of her birthday cards, and put them in the box that still holds her old Bunny Outfit from the Playboy Club.

I even tried to get Hugh Hefner to send her a card, but never got a response.

So, Scott......Happy Birthday ! ( and be glad that you live about as far as possible from me:D )
Stacy
 
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