Lazy age of winter.

So, this is day two of my winter-time week of vacation. I get three weeks a year, so take time off about every 4 months or so. No major travel planned. No major fun to look forward too, other than what fun I already have. All in all, a nice time to catch up on stuff around the home front that needs fixing, or a touch up.

23 days till I 'celebrate' my 41st birthday. It's kind of funny, when I hit 18, I felt important. I was old enough to vote, drink legally, and be drafted into the military if needed. 21 was important, just cause it was 21, age of majority in most legal issues and so forth. Age 25 was important because I was 1/4 century old, and that felt special for some reason. 30 meant I could say things like.."I remember 20-25 years ago, when blah...blah.." And people would believe that I maybe did actually remember that. At 40, people could, (and did, for a week or so) use that silly little ditty..""Lordy, lordy..look who's 40!" Not sure if that was important or not.

I guess the next important year to look forward to, baring something unseen, will be 50 years old. Then I'll be 1/2 a century old. May not be much, with people living longer these days, but having never been 50 before, I think it will be special to me.