Birthday and a movie

I am going tonight to the premier of Breaking Dawn with a friend and some of her friends I haven't met yet. Since her birthday is tomorrow and the movie is actually after midnight, this is what she wanted to do for her birthday ever since she found out the date. My husband's birthday was last week, that was easy. I just to him to his favorite place for breakfast, Pop's in Mandeville.  As I was thinking about birthdays in general this week I realized that they don't mean much between 30 and 64.  When you are little they are so important you can't hardly wait. We have even creating things called half birthdays to celebrate even more when they are little.  Then there are the important ones...10 (double digits), 13 (teenager), 16 (driving), 18 (legal adult), 21 (legal drinker), 29 (forever). The next really important one is 65 (retirement - if you are lucky) and there are those lovely ones that our friends enjoys...Lordy, lordy, look who's 40! Nifty, Nifty, guess who's 50? But really, they don't become really important again until you hit 100 (wow!) and that is only if you are lucky, or unlucky depending on your point of view. I myself am somewhere in the middle of lordy and nifty. I will have to live another lifetime (up to this point) to be even close to that magic triple digit number.  Funny thing is, I remember at 20 thinking that 40 was so old, on your way to being a grandparent and everything.  Now that I am here, even 70 doesn't look to bad on most of the people I know that are there or close.  It is amazing how sayings like, "youth in wasted on the young" begin to make sense as you get the experience that comes with time.  If I haven't told you lately mom, "Thanks for making it look so easy...and I am sorry I thought you were old when I was young and well, young." Blessings.