So, today I’m 42. Yep. 4. 2. How is that possible? Am I not still 16? 23? 31? I feel like I’m young. And really, it’s not like 42 is knocking on Death’s door. But it’s not 20–THANK GOD.
The great thing about my happy day is that I wouldn’t go back to being 20 for all the otters in Otterland. I mean that sincerely.
Here’s how I felt about everything:
- Scared
- Insecure
- Worried
- Unsure about who I should be
- Unsure about who I was at the moment
- People pleasing was a full-time job
- Thought I had to be perfect all the time
- Wanted everyone to like me
Here’s me at 42 (okay, 41 and 7 months as Christmas isn’t today):
Here’s how I feel about everything now:
- At peace
- Happy
- Contented
- Secure
- Confident
- Strong
- Hopeful
- Self-aware
- Okay about aging gracefully
- People pleasing is only a very small hobby
- I don’t want to be perfect even 25% of the time
- I prefer it when people like me (as I kick ass! 😉 KIDDING!), but no longer let it bother me if they don’t
Man, that makes it seem like I’ve got everything figured out. I don’t. But I have a lot more figured out now than I did when I was 20.
Here are the things I’ve learned over the years:
- I like who I am.
- What other people think isn’t the most important thing in my life (it’s way down the list.)
- I surround myself only with people that I love (or at least like a lot.)
- I rarely allow myself to be pressured into anything (been there, done that.)
- I am kind in every instance possible and still not mean even when provoked (though I can be QUITE firm when necessary.) 🙂
- Too much pride and ego get you nowhere.
- Judging other people because they have different beliefs is ridiculous. What is right for me may not be right for them, and that’s okay.
- I’m introverted–yes, it’s true. I’m an INFJ for those of you who know what Myers Briggs is. Shocking, I know.
- I don’t like any form of housework (as you all well know!)
- I let people take care of me sometimes–I don’t have to be superwoman 100% of the time.
- I regret nothing, even the screwed up crap that about killed me at the time. It doesn’t change anything and all roads led me to here.
The difference between 20 and 42 isn’t just 22 years, it’s a lifetime. I am so very thankful for all the wonderful people and things in my life. My husband, family and friends are so very dear to me. I am also very thankful for my new blogging family. I am stunned beyond measure just how many of you wonderful people I interact with daily and I’m so very happy I met you guys! Have a very blessed day and life!
Happy birthday Jodie, I hope you have a really good day.
Don’t worry, I’m 45 this year. I did a post a couple of weeks ago, that referred to one I did eight years ago. May be an idea for you to do something similar for your readers.
“If you were to meet yourself from a decade ago, would you recognise yourself? Would you have anything in common? Would you get on, or would you find yourself irritated with your naivety? Would you tell yourself to do anything differently or do you accept everything that has happened between then and now as necessary on the path to who you are now and who you are to become”
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Thank you!!! I LOVE that idea for a blog post!! What a wonderful idea. I’m going to have to go check out that post. 🙂 You know, my hubby and I joke that if we’d met each other 10 years ago we’d have hated each other! Time is a wonderful thing. 🙂 Thank God we met in our late 30s. I’d have hated missing out on him.
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Hey again. Can you please send me a link for the blog you mentioned. I got caught up in all your other blogs and couldn’t find it! 🙂 Thanks!
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http://kattermonran.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/ten-years-ago/ and this is the original from eight years ago:
so you’ll have to highlight it to read it.
http://mondrak.blogspot.co.uk/2004/08/pewaris-prattle.html
The last bit is in yellow on a yellow background
And thanks for looking and commenting on my older posts 🙂
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Awesome! Thank you so much!!! I actually peek at your blog quite often. Your pictures and stories are amazing. I just love your blog. I’ll check out your links tomorrow. Gotta get some sleep tonight! 😉 Oh, and thanks for the color change. You are always so sweet. 🙂
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Thanks 🙂 I did wonder why you were posting when it’s nearly 9am here lol
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I take being a night owl very seriously! 😉
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I’ve changed the colour to blue so it’s easier to read.
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This concept was actually the initial idea behind Back to the Future, apparently!
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Seriously!! That’s awesome. I need to watch that flick again. It’s been years!
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Hi Jodie …. Happy birthday, wish you all the best through the years. Some people said that live begin at 40 lol …. so enjoy your day
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Thank you!!! I couldn’t agree more that life starts at 40. My 40s have been the happiest years of my life. 🙂 Hugs!
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Happy birthday!
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Thank you!! It’s been a wonderful day!! 🙂
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Happy birthday! I honestly think about high school days all the time and wonder if I’ll enjoy reliving those days again, but I guess I do like my life the way it is now. Most of the time anyway!
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Thank you!!! Ya know, I had a great time in high school, but you couldn’t pay me $10,000,000,000 to go back! 🙂 Getting older is definitely a blessing, not a curse. At least not yet!
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Happy Birthday!
stay gorgeous and please do not stop inspiring other people (that includes ME) through your blog.
Enjoy your day 🙂
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Bong & J (GREAT HANDLE!), thank you!!!! You are so sweet and what you said means the world to me. Thank you thank you thank you!! 🙂
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Happy Birthday! I am 29 years old and I am about to hit 30! This blog post just gave me an idea to explore how far I’ve come and to embrace what the future holds for me as well.
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Thank you!!! I’m so glad my post gave you an idea for a post of your own. It’s amazing how putting things in black and white can really clarify life. 🙂 Good luck!
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Happy Birthday Jodi… hope you enjoy your 40s much more than you did your 20s 🙂
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Heck yeah I am!! The 40s rule! 🙂 Thanks for the birthday wishes. It’s been great!!!
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The forties do rule. As one exits the fifties you sincerely hope the same for the sixties. Sixty IS the new forty after all. Happy Birthday. Cheers!
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I love that the 60s are the new 40s! I’m quite certain I’ll still be a foul-mouthed brat well into my 80s. 🙂
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great post and happy birthday. You are very mature for a 42 year old…:)
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Thank you!!! It’s been a great birthday. I like to think that I’m an 80 year old living in a 20 year old’s body–then I look in the mirror and realize that is NOT the case. 😉
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40’s are pretty damn good..so far anyways
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40s kick ass!! I’m loving it. 🙂
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Only a few years behind ya and half yur @20 list still applies .. lol
Would like to say it means I’m young at heart but really, I just refuse to grow up
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I’m still addicted to teddy bears, so I’m one to talk about growing up! Being a child forever rules!!! 🙂
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All these are so universally true! Love it and Happy Birthday!
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I’m so happy you liked my rambling musings! 🙂 Thanks for the birthday wishes. It’s been an AMAZING day!! 🙂
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Happy birthday Jodi. Life DOES begin at 40. It’ll just get better and better from this point on. I promise 🙂
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You are soooo right!!! I’m happier now than I ever dreamed possible!! Thank you for the sweet birthday wishes. 🙂
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Great post! Happy Birthday! I feel the same as you and might I add , I will turn 52 in August and it keeps getting better! You have a lot to look forward to!
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Thank you, Sherrylcook!!! I’m so happy to hear that I’ll love my 50s even more than my 40s!! It’s been a great decade so far! 🙂
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Happy Birthday!!! We used to live in a tribal culture where age was revered, implying wisdom – there is nothing particularly great about being young (especially when you still look 20 anyway xx).
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Dang, you are so sweet! What a lovely thing to say. Thank you!!! And I love the idea of revering age. What a concept in this day and age, right? Thanks for the birthday sweetness!
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Happy birthday Jodi! Seems that being a little older makes you a lot wiser! Since you mentioned Briggs, I’m an ENFP if that tells you anything 😉 Have a great day and all the best in your 42nd year!
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Thank you for the birthday wishes!!! I thank God everyday for letting me reach 42. I had NO idea it would be so great! Ah ha, an ENFP!! That explains everything! 😉 Hugs!!
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Have a lovely birthday Jodie, seems to melike you have everything in the right place; with regard to your views on life now versus 20 yrs. Hope your show goes well.
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Thank you, athenabrady1!!! You are so sweet. I’m so happy to be in my 40s I can’t even tell you. 🙂 And the show went great! Thanks for all the sweetness. 🙂
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Have a great birthday, and wow… The pictures are… wow.
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John…thank you. You are so very sweet. 🙂 I’ve had the most lovely day. It couldn’t have been any better. 🙂
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You are the authentic Jodi. Happy Birthday! You’re still as stunning as you were when you were 20. 🙂
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YOU ARE SO SWEET!!! Thank you, doll. What a wonderful and kind thing to say to an old broad! 😉
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42?
Jeez, you’re still wet behind the ears! 😉
Happy Birthday – and thanks for dropping by MadHatters !
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I LOVE the way that sounds!!! I’m a little whipper snapper! 🙂 Thanks for the birthday wishes and it was my pleasure stopping by your blog. 🙂
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Happy birthday, Jodi. Here you are being all smart and wise again, and on top of that, holy crap, you were and are a pretty lady. (Can I say that?) Post this every week or so, would you? Great reminders.
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Awwwww…you are sooooo sweet, sid!! Thank you!!! I’m pretty sure I’m blushing. 🙂 Glad you liked my ramblings! 😉 Hugs!
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Life’s a journey. If you aren’t learning, you aren’t living.
Oh and Happy Birthday.
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Thank you Jim! I totally agree!
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You look beautiful for your age. I’m 34 and I still catch myself worrying about what others will think sometimes, I’m getting better at it though and I’m so much better than my 20 yr old self. Happy Birthday!
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Sis…thank you!!! You are too kind. 🙂 With every passing year your, “Give a shit meter” will decrease. By the time you are my age, VERY little is annoying because you just don’t care anymore. It’s BLISS!! 🙂
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Happy Birthday, Jodi! Hope you have a lovely day! 😀 I hope my “42 birthday post” (in about 20 years!) will be as insightful to youngish people … 🙂 Never stop learning, eh!
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Thank you!!! It has been an absolutely lovely day!!! I have NO doubt that in 300 years when you are 42 that you’ll be 10x as insightful as me. 🙂 Hugs!
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Wait until you get to my age, 67, then you will feel old.
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PS, happy birthday.
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NOOOO!!! 🙂 I figure my mom is 73 and still a spring chicken. I’m hoping for that kind of stamina at her age. Well, in all truth, I think she has even more than I do now. 🙂 Thanks for the birthday wishes! I’ve had a great day. 🙂
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Great attitude. Life definitely begins at 40, it is so nice to be free of all that angst. Happy Birthday
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An angst-free life is paradise!!! 🙂 It really does begin at 40, doesn’t it. I’m happier now than I’ve ever been. 🙂 Thanks for the sweet birthday wishes!
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Happy Birthday! I don’t like what getting older has done to my thighs, but I do love the new perspectives it brings. Great post and right on!
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Ha!! Yeah, I wouldn’t mind having my 20 year old thighs back. Or my 20 year old boobs!! 😉 Ahhh…gravity. 🙂 Thanks so much, sweetie!
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INTP, Happy Birthday!
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Ah ha! Another Myers Briggs person!! 🙂 I was shocked at how accurate it was. SHOCKED! Thanks for the birthday wishes!
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Happy BDay – we’re only afew months apart! (Couldn’t pay me to go back to that “20 something mess )
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That is exactly how I feel! I wouldn’t go back for anything. LOVE my life now so much more than I ever did then. 🙂 Happy early birthday to you! 🙂
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Happy Birthday! For your birthday I’m giving you the Reader Appreciation Award. 🙂
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HOLY COW!!!!! You freaking rock!!! Thank you so much!!! Consider my heart officially warmed!! 🙂 XOXOXO Oh, and it’s been a GREAT birthday. Thank you! XOXOXO
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Hi Jodi,
One year older, adds More :
Experience, Composure and Wisdom. Happy Birthday.
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Preach on, Md. Alsanda!!! Thanks for the sweet birthday wishes. It’s been just lovely. 🙂
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Read something to the tune of:
Your 20s are for looking good
Your 30s are for learning lessons
Your 40s are for teaching lessons
Your 50s are for leading leaders
IDK really, but these sound good. The point was Shut the hell up when you’re 20!
Feliz cumpleano a ti.
~Regards, Dan
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That made me laugh out loud!!! LOVE THAT!!!! 🙂 Thanks for the awesome verses and the birthday wishes. It’s been a wonderful day. 🙂
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My work is done here. The Cleverest Clown exeunt stage left. 😉
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You crack me up!! 🙂
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Wait … you just described me!! We are the same person (except I’m about 8 years older than you … bleh!) I remember hearing one time someone saying 40 and up is the best time of life. I have to agree! You mellow out … and, quite frankly, you just don’t give a damn about all the DRAMA!!! And you appreciate life SOOOO much more! SO … HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! I hope you have a great day and a great year … and by the way … you look amazing!! 😀
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You are SO NOT 8 years older than me!! You look BEAUTIFUL and so YOUNG!!! 🙂 Good genetics on you, pretty lady!! 🙂 I agree so much with you–my 40s have been the best years of my life, and only getting better. I love not giving a rat’s ass about so much that used to drive me bonkers. FREEDOM!! 🙂 Thank you for the sweetness and the birthday wishes. You are always a ray of sunshine in my life. 🙂 XOXOXO
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And you are my new best friend because you have made my YEAR!! LOL! Hope your birthday was just as amazing as you!! 😀
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Tons of love to you, my dear!! 🙂 The birthday was incredible. I love my family. 🙂 XOXOXOXOXO
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Excellent! … XOXOXOXO 😀
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Happy Birthday to our special hooman friend Miss Jodi! On a strange coincidence Bingo and Buddy are celebrating being six months old today. A special half year mark for them! 🙂
Piggy kisses
Nibbles, Nutty, Bingo & Buddy
xxxx
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Please give Bingo and Buddy a big ole Happy 6 months birthday kiss from me!!! I love their furry noggins!! And thanks to all the critter and Mummy for a lovely birthday wish. Much love to all of you!!!
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gorgeous! awesome pic timeline idea (btw)
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You are FAR too kind!!! Thank you my dear! It’s been an amazing day. And it’s always a good time to start the Pinot Grigio!! 🙂 Hope you’ve had a great day too!
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and happy bday!! (started the pinot grigio early today pre-dinner) :o)
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happy birthday. hope it was a lovely one. 🙂
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Thank you, Kris! It has been one of the most wonderful days of my life. 🙂
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Sorry, which was the 20 years pic and which was the 42 years?
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May I just say I LOVE YOU for saying that???? Bless your sweet heart. Oh, and I have a coupon for reading glasses if you need it. 😉
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Happy Birthday! Enjoy! 🙂
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Thank you!!! It’s been such a beautiful day. 🙂
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Happy Birthday & congratulations on wearing it so well. When I was younger I always wanted to be older, and now in my mid forties I can see that was about the old thing I wasn’t young & stupid about, aahh but that too – I didn’t want to be older for all the reasons I like being older – same as your’s pretty much – I just thought the world & I would be perfect if only, but it wasn’t & isn’t thank God.
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Awww…thank you, EllaDee!!! Like you, I always wanted to be older when I was younger. Now I’m just happy as hell to be exactly where I am. Such a nice feeling! 😉
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Happy Birthday! Hope you enjoyed your day 🙂
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Thank you!!! I had SUCH an amazing day. It was just perfect. 🙂
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Happy birthday. I will be 40 soon and I am enjoying getting there. I can feel how good the years to come will be!
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You’ll LOVE your 40s! They are my favorite years ever! 😉
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Great post. Happy Birthday. I’ll be 40 in a couple months myself. Great photos too.
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Thank you! I’m happy you enjoyed it. 🙂 Happy early birthday. 🙂 (Oh, and thanks for the sweetness about the pics too!)
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Thank you and your most welcome 🙂
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I hope your birthday was super, wonderful, and fantastic. I think there is nothing better than looking back and realizing how much you have learned, how much you have grown. Even better is when you look back with no regrets, because there is silver lining to every misfortune and those who can always find it are truly blessed. Good for you! You really do KICK ASS!
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Thank you! It was wonderful from start to finish. 🙂 And I’m so glad you like the post. 🙂 It is amazing to be able to look back on your life with clarity and see how many changes have happened for the better. I’m thankful for my life every day. Thanks so much for dropping by!
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forgot to say I’m totally with you on the housework thing !!! 😆
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DOWN WITH HOUSEWORK!!! 🙂 Death to brooms and vacuums!!! 😉
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Happy birthday. This might be the vicodin talking, but you are getting cuter with age…
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Thank you, hon!!! You are SOOOOOOO sweet!!! And I’ll so take your Vicodin-induced compliment. I’ll take ’em any way I can get ’em. KIDDING!!! Really though, thanks so much. 🙂 Hugs!
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Great post:) I am turning shhh…(39) this summer. You have made me feel a bit better about it. I agree, I am enjoying these years so much better than my 20’s. The girl back then was a crazy people-pleaser as well. I am an INTJ, so I imagine we have some things in common;) Thanks for following my blog, as it led me to yours!
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I promise, I won’t tell anyone about 39 lurking around the corner. BAD 39!! I’m going to smack its hand! 😉 I’m glad the post made you feel a little better. As you are an INTJ, I bet we DO have a lot in common. Have yourself a great night! 🙂 Hugs!
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Happy birthday Jodi,
4 and 2 is not big number…:D
the most things I like about what you learned is. “What other people think isn’t the most important…”
and me too don’t like to do housework, but sadly I still have to do it
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Thanks for saying 4.2. isn’t old. I don’t FEEL old, dangit!! 🙂 Sorry you have to still do housework. I still do a little too, but as LITTLE as humanly possible!! 😉 Have a great night!
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Happy Birthday! 42 is not old, I should know. I was made fun of all through school because my mom had me when she was 39 so old does not exist. Visit me again soon! It gves me something to do! Happy Reading!
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Thank you!!! I don’t feel old–except when my alarm goes off in the morning, but I’ve ALWAYS hated that!!! 🙂 My mom had me in her 30s. I think it’s great when people wait until they are older. All that wisdom I can only imagine helps with child rearing. Have a wonderful day and thanks for dropping by!
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It’s no problem at all. i hate waking up to my alarm too so I know how you feel. Happy Reading!
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HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Love this post! Like you, I wouldn’t take 20 over 40 for all the beans in the world. I’m not sure what beans has to do with it, but I’m jet lagged and couldn’t think of any other saying. 🙂 Have a GREAt day. Cheers!
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Hi De!! Thank you!!! I’m so happy you liked the post!!! You like beans. I went with otters. Neither one of us makes sense. At least you have jet lag as an excuse!! 😉 Hee hee hee… 40 is so much better, isn’t it?? 🙂 You have a good one too!
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Thanks for stopping by my blog and becoming a follower. I love this post. You’ve learned a lot in those twenty-two years, more than some people will ever figure out.
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Hi Coming East! My pleasure following you blog. And thanks for enjoying the post. I’m so glad you liked it. I tell ya, it’s been a HARD 22 years (42, really) and all that hard stuff helps you learn the good stuff–no doubt!!!
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A little belated but, Happy Birthday! I must say, you look amazing for 42! Really. I’m not just sucking up because you stopped by my little blog and decided to follow it for a little while. (Thanks btw.) 🙂
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You are SOOOOOOO sweet!!! Thank you, my dear! I had a wonderful birthday. Absolutely perfect. 🙂 And it is my pleasure following your blog. 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend!
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I’ve nominated you for the sunshine blogger award 😉 http://drawingroomdays.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/bring-on-the-sun/
– Karen
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Oh my gosh!!! Thank you!!!! Karen, you are so dang sweet. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! XOXOXOXO
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you’re very welcome 🙂
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oh, and happy belated birthday xxx
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Thank you so much!!! It was just wonderful!!! 🙂
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Hope you had a wonderful birthday Jodi !!
I really enjoyed this post, I have to agree with you that I wouldn’t want to go back for anything. I was exactly the same as you at 20, I had a little chuckle to myself as I read the list as I kept ticking them off in my head, “yep, that too, a-hu, Hmmm-mmm, Oh I remember that one”… etc. I haven’t quite got to be able to mark off all of your list at 42 yet, although there are many I can tick and others that I know I am closer to. I have 7 years to catch you. Lol… Thanks so much for sharing your journey to find peace with yourself. I am greatly encouraged by this! Cheers
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Hi Water Bearer!!! What a LOVELY comment!! You just warmed my heart. 🙂
I did have an amazing birthday and I’m so very pleased that you enjoyed my post. Ugh, 20. NEVER AGAIN! (Thank God!) As you still have 7 years to catch up to me, I’d say you are doing pretty dang great. I didn’t “come into my own” until my mid-30s. It took that much time to finally have the ever-desirable epiphany.
Have a wonderful weekend and thank you so much for dropping by. It’s great to meet new friends. 🙂
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Thanks for such a kind compliment! I am glad you had a fabulous birthday. I think I must have been having epiphanies for over ten years now and I wonder how many more there are to come!?! I do love that feeling of reaching a new level of self-awareness. It is what I based my blog on afterall, self-awarness and refreshing faith!! :o) So hard to imagine going through life without either, 😦
A new friend is a wonderful thing indeed, especially one as encouraging as yourself. I feel a little more blessed for it. Thanks muchly!! 🙂
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Oh Jodi please take out that smiley face next to “life without either….” it was suppose to be a frown or a sideward mouth, Im sure you know what mean lol Silly computer doesnt get my emotiocons haha, cheers 🙂
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Seriously, you are so funny!!! I would have done just like you and left another comment to fix a typo or mis-matched smiley face!! 🙂 I love that your blog is about self-awareness and refreshing faith. Those are two of the most amazing things a person can have in life. One of the things my hubby and I love so much about each other is that we are very self-aware. We both thought we were when we were young, but oh were we wrong!! Now we really do have a wonderful clarity and it makes life so much easier. Having an abiding faith is another beautiful part of my life. I’m so blessed that my mom raised me to have such a deep spirituality–get’s me through the tough times. 🙂
I’m so glad we met. 🙂 Have a great Saturday!
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Consider your smiley face officially fixed! 😉
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Laughs* Thanks for that 🙂 I too thought I was self-aware at a young age, and was also very wrong. My dear departed Dad was the one to teach me strong faith able to withstand the trials of life. Life is now good, and blessed! I read two things this morning that I just had to share, I wrote them in my journal in April this year:
1. The pride of our hearts will deceive us.
2. 2012 can be your best year or your worst, the choice is yours.
I now look back and read them, grateful that I chose to make changes to try for the best. It has truly been the best year since I began publishing my blogs. A new friend is one of the reasons why. 🙂
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You are very blessed to have had such a wonderful dad. I feel like that about my mom. She raised one strong, independent, faith-filled girl and I’ll always be thankful to her for it. 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts too. Pride is a killer!!! When I see overly prideful behavior I just feel so sorry for the person–to let something so silly get in the way of happiness is tragic. I also agree about choosing how one’s year will turn out. Life happens and some things are unavoidable, but a great attitude always helps. 🙂
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Wow! It feels like you read my mind. The only thing I miss about my 20’s is the amount of energy I had, but other than that I would not want to be 20 again. What a confused individual I was:)
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Oh Marcela…you hit the nail on the head. I DO miss my never-ending energy. I was a firecracker when I was in my 20s. Now??? Ugh. If I have to put makeup on to leave the house I find myself exhausted. 😉
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Lol. You should seriously consider being a comedian.
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I just love you!!! You say the BEST things!! 😉 XO
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Lol. Thanks.
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I love the way you think…and write! Belated birthday wishes. I hit the big 6.5. this year and shared some of the things I was thinking about that day (http://suzysomethingthinksoutloud.com/2012/04/28/) I’ve been 65 for over a month now, if anything has changed it’s that I am a lot less concerned about the thoughts that I write in my blogs (yes, plural…it’s addictive, as I’m sure you know!) I hope you have a wonderful year and look forward to your future posts.
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Hi Suzy! You are so sweet!!! Thank you. 🙂 I’m so glad you like my nutty blog. 65 eh? I can’t wait to read your post. It’ll be great getting an even better perspective on how age makes us SMART DAMMIT! 😉 I gotta tell you, I don’t know how you manage more than one blog. I’d lose what is left of my mind. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by. I’m so glad we are new blog buddies. 🙂
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A belated Happy Birthday to you! I wholeheartedly agree with your wisdom… well done (and earned)! :>
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Thank you!!! You are so sweet! 🙂
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I just loved your post–it was so beautiful. And thank you so much for the kind mention. It means a great deal to me. 🙂 XOXOXO
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Awww Thanks for your kind words, I am glad you liked my writing. This is all so new to me, I have never showed my writing to others before I began blogging and to be honest I have no idea if I am any good. God’s gifts are easily misunderstood so I just obey and see what happens. I just am so glad to have had people comment and encourage me, and some even get something good from what ‘little ole’ me’ has to say. Thanks again for everything! 🙂
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You are very welcome!! Blogging is new to me too. I’ve only been doing it for 3 months and had NO idea where to start, what was “appropriate” (obviously, I threw that concept out the window!), or anything else related to blogging, so I know what you mean when you say it’s nice to get feedback from people who read your stuff. It feels good and is so encouraging. 🙂 Keep up the great writing!
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I am now sixty four and share many of your views. It is just harder to get there. Thanks for following my blog.
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Hi Earl the Pearl! Thanks so much for dropping by. It’s always nice to meet someone who has a similar point of view. Have yourself a fantastic weekend! 🙂
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you also!
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First of all, happy birthday! A little bit late but with all the good intention and admiration 😉
Second, I loved this article because it is nice when a gorgeous lady like you accept and thank for all the good things that come with time.
Finally, as a proud member of “forty-something” society, I agree when you imply there’s no use trying to avoid the fact you’re this age, but as long as deep inside you see yourself half your age, there’s nothing that put you down. I tip my hat off to you for having such a successful life, a loving husband and being a living example on how to “accumulate life experience” gracefully.
Be well!
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Hi doll! What a sweet comment. 🙂 You just made my day. I have to admit, I’m truly a blessed person and I’m thankful everyday for what I have. And I’m pretty sure I’ll always see myself as 20. I can’t help it. I am now and will always be a wild doofus! 😉 HUGS!
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