Posted on 03/25/2009 11:48:26 AM PDT by CMoran325
No, not that 44 -- the age 44. I am turning (along with Sarah Jessica Parker) the grand age of 44 today. It's a palindrome. It's redundant. It's quadrennial. It's a multiple of lucky 11. It's a cool number.
It represents each and every year I have walked upon this earth. Every year I have been blessed to live in the greatest country in history. Every year I have had the great privilege to know my mother and father. Why would I want to deny any single one of them?
Each year has had its good and bad -- and when I press myself to think about it, the good so greatly outnumbers the bad... Hell, I have been graced with each and every one of these years. It would be foolish to be ungrateful for any of them.
So I gladly embrace my 44 years of age. Life is too precious -- grab on to the good things and give thanks.
This is what popped up when I searched Google images for "44" -- it's Messier 44, also known as the Beehive Cluster, an open cluster of stars that is approximately 580 light years distant. Yep, 44 is cool.
Happy birthday! Life is just beginning, FReeper pal.
HEY! I just hit 40 yesterday!
Happy birthday!
Happy B-Day!
I don’t know what 57 is on Messier’s scale, but it sucks on mine.
If I were Colette, I’d do everything possible to disassociate myself from that ugly horseface skank SJParker. UGH
Happy birthday!
No need to get nasty — although it was always puzzling to me why she was landing the likes of gorgeous men like JFK jr.
I was jealous until I landed a handsome hunk of my own! (Anybody know him? He’s Jimmy P. who you may have seen on CNBC.)
I didn’t think my comment was nasty, but the subject is.
Congrats on finding a good man! We’re not that easy to find. :)
Out of the millions of people turning 44 today, you pick what’s-her-name with the “face like a foot”?!
How about Aretha Franklin?
Oh, and Happy Birthday! ;o)
(And yes, I realize Aretha is not 44.)
Happy, happy birthday, person younger than my youngest child:-D
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