50th Reunion Outfit

Hmm. Well, you know what they say -- what you look like after 40 is your own fault. LOL

Beverly--

you look beautiful. I love your jacket, your whole outfit!

and like everyone else...well, i'll say you look a bit older than me (i'm 42)...but more like your 30th...not your 50th.

betsey

And the pile direction... I love devore, but it does have some challenging characteristics for sewing!

I turned 51 on the 5th.

My mom's 79.

I should say mentally I feel 25. Physically I've got my problems too. Fibromyalgia to name just one. About 5yrs ago my doc gave me a med to even out my heartbeat. Almost immediately I felt a lessening of physical energy. I chalked it up to a fibro flare and just went on with my life, as well as I could. One person on the fibro support group I'm on posts medical research regularly. One of her posts made me suspicious. So I checked on Google for the name of the drug and ATP. ATP, for the uninitiated, is the molecule necessary for the 'engine' of the cell to create energy for the cell to do its genetically determined 'work'. This was just a few months ago. I immediately stopped taking the drug and have been slowly feeling better since.

All that to say this. Doc's don't know everything. They don't have the time to keep up with all the research. They might not connect A to B to find C. Sometimes you just have to do things either by yourself or go back to the doc and insist on a change.

Hope you feel better soon, AK in PA

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Thanks,....I think.... ;-)

ROTFLOL!!! That is "Mother Nature's Frosting", I don't touch it with chemicals anymore, although when I first started showing gray hair I darkened it for a few years. Both of my DDs color their hair, and both envy me my natural "frosted" hair. Just lucky in the set of genes I inherited, I guess.

Beverly

Our committee also had a new yearbook, with updated bios from all who responded. We also had ID badges with a scanned image of our original yearbook picture on it. Many of the folks there could have switched badges and I doubt many would have noticed.

They did take a group shot last night with all who attended, about 80 or 90 of a class of 400+. They also ran a video "roll call" with the names of (known) deceased members in red. Amazing how many have died. Fortunately, I guess if we reach 68 our life expectancy is pretty good, though.

Beverly

Nah, I think genetics has a lot to do with it. Some folk already look old at 40, others still have clear eyes and tight skin at 60+. I was a smoker for many years, but my skin is in better shape then my twin's who never smoked. That has to be the result of different inherited traits.

Beverly

Thanks!

My older DD is 42. The first time a clerk mistook us for sisters, I was *pleased* she was... well not pleased. :-} I'm fortunate, I think, in having inherited my mother's skin. She died at 57, but her face was still as smooth as a baby's behind.

Beverly

Thanks, Irene. It has a very nice "hand" soft and flowy, and the gray color shimmers. I fell in love with it, but if I ever use burn-out velvet again it won't have any bias hems.

Beverly

I was widowed at 62. I don't think I shall ever remarry, too many complications. Not that I would mind finding a nice middle-aged (but young in spirit) man with whom to share meals, traveling, conversation, etc. But marriage...nope, been there done that. My marriage was mostly a happy and successful one, but I will probably never find it necessary to make that commitment to another man. I expect to live another 30 years, and as long as I have my children, grandchildren, my sewing machines, and several good books, I'm content.

Beverly, whose DD thinks I *should* find a man

Thanks, what high praise.

In my "minds eye" I'm still in my 40s. I've often thought I would not be a teenager again for all the tea in China, but if I could be transformed to 35-40, now that I'd probably jump at. Mature enough, healthy enough, wise enough to really enjoy life, old enough to know the pitfalls to avoid.

Beverly

Choose your parents wisely. ;-} I have not taken particularly good care of myself, and I'm starting to creak and groan a bit, but mostly I am still able to enjoy life. I'm looking forward to the 60th. ;-)

Beverly

Very elegant! 8-)

Want to come help me wade through my sewing room? Got a bulldozer?

Kay, taking a break from building a custom wheelchair seatcover.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! You give it away!!! My own is white on top in the front, dark in back......but being that I am soooo young, obviously it's "frosted" -- that's my story and I'm sticking to it, and you should, too. Why not? Well, ok, I know you'll do what you'll do, whatever that is. Stubborn? Or set in your ways? Only your twin knows for sure.

It's spooky how many are gone, not just from high school, but from my former co-workers, neighbors, friends, and acquaintances. The only good thing about it is that anyone who ever witnessed my most embarrassing moments seems to be gone now. I can finally pretend to be cool.

Grandchildren -- maybe that's it. I won't be having any for at least several years -- no marriage prospects for any of those who are old enough, and one of my children has just enough disabilities/handicaps/ whatever that may keep them from ever being mature enough to marry or even to attract a marriage prospect.

I am not necessarily in a hurry to have grandchildren, though. I do remember one of my aunts, though, who couldn't think about anything but grandchildren from the moment her only child married. Well, he had married someone who was injured in the Vietnam War and had a metal plate in her head and had been advised not to marry, so I couldn't blame him for wanting to wait a few years to have a child.

> Beverly, looking forward to some more sewing now that my sewing room is so > nice and tidy.

OMG you finished it ALREADY? I am truly in the presence of a master-sewing-goddess!

and oh-wow!! Its BEAUTIFUL!

:-)) Ain't it amzing that they look so haggard when really they should all look 18.

The outfit looks great. All that fiddling about to get it right worked really well.

Believe it or not, I was not "overdressed". Not having been to one of these events in 25 years, I had no idea what to expect for dress code. Many women were dressed to the "Nines"...glitter and spangles all over the place. ;-)

Hah! Nope, sorry, I'm now motivated to plow through some of my stash, plus I have a Highland dance outfit to think through (the whole dyeing thing worries me), and I promised DD I'd embroider logos on 12 of DGD's soccer team's warm-up jackets. Should keep me out of trouble for awhile. ;-}

Hope it's for someone other than yourself.

Beverly