How Old Do You Feel?

Jennifer — I hope you have a great day and a fantastic year! Here’s to another year of doing what makes us happy – most of the time — and doing it well!

I am 40 years old. Most days I feel physically 36 3/4 years old and emotionally 23 years old.

Love, Em

Happy Birthday to a wonderful mom, a terrific writer and all-round good soul. I am 68 and 364 days old. I feel physically just about how old I am, despite Curves, and emotionally the same. (I earned it!) though in my head I’m really 37. Birthdays are such a surprise.

Happy Birthday Jennifer! When I think of you I remember being in high school and visiting you & Lindsay at Denison, and thinking that when I grew up I’d be as sassy, smart and sexy as you two. You wore a white blazer with nothing underneath once and that still is the coolest. But it didn’t happen in college, or in my twenties, or thirties because I never grew tall or blonde. But I did “go” blonde in my forties which helped. Most days I feel 38 physically and my age 48 emotionally (though I could be acting 20 emotionally and fooling myself).

I am 54 years old (this week). Most days I feel physically 40 years old (although my right hip feels 60) and emotionally 22 (but aging rapidly). I can think of no better way to celebrate a birthday in 2009 than to hear Mr J. Tweedy of the Chicago Tweedy’s sing: “We’ll find a way regardless, to make some sense out of this mess. It’s a test, but I believe a kiss is all we need”. Have fun!

Happy, happy birthday, Jennifer. I wish you the most wonderful of years ahead. OK, so I’m 49. I physically feel (today) like I’m 80 and emotionally feel 55.

I am 32 years old…most days, since the arrival of my now 6 month old, I feel physically a good solid 47. Emotionally, I’ve teetered between 38 and begging to go back into the womb . Thumb sucking is no longer an option at my age, and I am coping . Happy, happy birthday, Jennifer!!

Jennifer, I had NO idea you were 51 today! I always thought you were way younger than I was, and I really am surprised. You don’t look it….you’re a great poster child for avoiding sun for those of us starting to turn leathery.
Me, I’m a month ahead of you age-wise. Luckily, I feel probably as good as I did at 30 and at 40. And while I definitely subscribe to the “if you have your health you have everything” adage, I’m equally thrilled to report I feel emotionally about 25. That might not provide me with the sharpest business edge I might need, but I like to think not being jaded and bored is a good thing.
Hope you have a beautiful 51st, spent doing all that you love with all the ones you love.

Em, I am 52 today!! Jennifer – it’s a great day for a birthday, isn’t it? Physically, I am stronger and in better shape than I think I’ve ever been, so let’s just say I’m happy with 52, if this is what 52 feels like! And when I turned 35, I finally felt comfortable in my own skin, so I guess that’s where I’ve always been emotionally – which was a little difficult at age 10, but pretty good at 52!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jennifer!
I am 49 years and 300-and-some days old. Most days I feel physically 49 years and 300-and-some days old (but, am comforted by the myth that if I ever get around to working out regularly, I will instantly be rewarded with a return to youthful vigor) and emotionally 100 years old (that’s today, ask me tomorrow and the answer might be 13).

Happy b-day Jent. Miss you already! I am 43 years. Most days I feel 30 and emotionally I am 43. Wow…funny how that works. Love you.

OK- here goes- I am 48 (soon to be 49) I feel 60 today but I’ll feel 25 tomorrow after a good nights sleep- emotionally I am 30- the fact that one of my boys is on his way to Japan as I write this and I have only one boy at home. Now I can enjoy a quiet house and I am looking forward to no raised voices for 14 days! I can celebrate. In a few weeks I feel 16 when I go to see YES in concert for my birthday!
Jennifer have a great day and just think- my posting is almost halfway to your goal of 51 comments!

Happy, happy birthday, Jennifer. I, too, wish I had known about it earlier — I would have sent you at least a cute digital trinket through Facebook. Regardless (and trinketless), I hope you and Chris and the kids are having a fine day and evening.

And now the tough part: sadly I appear to be one of the oldest greeters on here so far. (Harriet, where are you when I need you?) I am circling-around-Social-Security years old. Most days I feel, oh, maybe your age (but not as tall, as blonde or as cool), wondering where all those years went. Emotionally I feel and try to act maybe 35, neatly splitting the range of perceptions, I think, of those around me (from immature to way-too-old).
Re-connecting with K&R buds has pulled me back to “the day” and resurrected good times and good folks past.

Including one spirited, literate, beautiful and apparently ageless good friend. Cheers.

Happy happy birthday, Jennifer! I recently turned 42, but most days feel 60. Emotionally, it depends on the day. ; )

Lots of love and good wishes, Jennifer! You’ve already heard from me but I couldn’t resist joining in the blog fun. I am 53 years old. Most days I look and feel it, in pretty much every way! But it’s all good.

Happy Birthday, Jennifer! As you know, I am also 51, and I’m not sure how to respond to the questions. I am exercising more than I ever have (which honestly isn’t saying a lot based on how little I exercised for years – there are about 378 things I’d rather do), and eat better (healthier) than in the past. So maybe I feel 35…? Emotionally? Well, I understand what my mom said years ago about being the same person on the inside as when she was 18. I think I feel – on the inside – like the same Pin Oak camper I was when I initially met you, my not-so-old-friend.

May this next year be your best yet!

Happy Birthday Jennifer! Hope you enjoy your day! I’m 33 but am constantly forgetting how old I am…I seem to think I’m about 26 which is how old I was when I had my first old child…that seems to be when my memory went. Although come to think of it, that’s not entirely true, as I do remember turning 30 because that’s when I had my second child so…I guess this would be put me an emotional age of about 18? Physically, I feel better than ever so I guess I’ll stick with 18 for that one too

Happy birthday to you! I am 40. Emotionally I am still 15 I think! But physically–yeah, 40.
Hope it was a fun day and great celebration!

Happy happy birthday Jennifer!! I am 54 (yikes!)years old. Most days I feel physically about 40 years old (that was a good year for me) and emotionally somewhere between 6 and 96 years old, depending largely upon what new and exciting issues the teenagers in my house have thrown at me that day!

Two of my favorite thoughts on age:
1) A card I once saw that said “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” and
2) something my mother said when she was 87 – we were talking about age and she told me that she still felt like she was 18. She said “sometimes I walk by a mirror and I think ‘who IS that old lady?!’”

May we all be blessed with an eternally young soul!

Happy (now belated) Birthday Jennifer! I am 46 years old and although I physically feel younger (about 30), it’s the longer recovery time for each injury that let’s me know my age. Emotionally I have to break into 3 buckets: my curiosity is still that of a 10 year old, I have the maturity of a 25 yr old and the patience level of a 70 year old (the cumulative effect of 5 kids which includes 3 almost 4 teens)!!

Happy birthday!!

I am 32 years old. When Jackson gets all of his sleep and takes his afternoon naps, I feel somewhere around 28-30. When he doesn’t, neither do I, and so I feel more like 60. Emotionally, I feel 30ish when Jackson lets me get my rest, but when he doesn’t, I emotionally feel 16.

Happy Birthday, Jennifer.
I am 37 years old. Most days I feel physically 32 years old and emotionally 29 years old.

Happy Belated Birthday, Jennifer. I am 43 years old. Most days I feel physically 34 years old, thanks to my adult-onset athlete status of late. Emotionally, things are a bit murkier…some days it seems to depend on the direction of the wind.

I took a week off from MoB and look what I missed! You must have been so exhausted at our wedding May 22 1994! I’m very glad you and Chris and Ian were there! I just hope you didn’t need to visit the one and only bathroom while it was unavailable due to Missy pumping breast milk (with Lindsay as her accomplice!)Lindsay, you really shouldn’t have shared that story with me!