Monday, June 20, 2011

50

My husband turned fifty last week. And, I wanted to get him a special gift. His watches tend to die quickly. As in, “Cal, why aren’t you ready to go?” He’d point to his watch and say, “We still have an hour.” Then he’d look at the watch and do a double take—it had stopped running. A nice watch was what I wanted.

But I had to be sly about collecting the money. For several reasons. First, we don’t have extra money that I can use, especially after the six appliance deaths, the AC replacement, and the car repair. But, I spoke at a women’s conference and that was a great nest egg beginner. But the second reason is that Cal is meticulous with finances. He knows where every penny goes. Not that he’s controlling or difficult—he’s just been ripped off by the bank enough times. Once he caught the bank making a $500 error. And I don’t do the banking because I reverse numbers. When we got married, we joined our checking accounts—my checking account balance was off by hundreds of dollars. Though it was fun finding money for grad school. At any rate, I saved enough money. Five dollars here, ten dollars there, and it added up. I bought Cal a beautiful Seiko watch. It’s kinetic so no batteries. He loves it.

It’s kind of weird though that he turned fifty. I thought he’d be older when he reached the half century mark. After all, everyone I knew was old when they turned fifty, but Cal is young. Hmm. It must be one of those strange universe ending paradoxes.

PS The kids bought Cal a brew kit. So tonight Cal and chemist son will be brewing Skull Splitter. I’ll be working on editing/proofreading—my young adult novel will be going on Amazon in the next couple of weeks.

Here’s a photo of the birthday boy and me.



11 comments:

  1. Happy birthday Cal. What a beautiful couple you are. :)

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  2. Happy Birthday, Mr. Keller!

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  3. Congrats to the hubby on turning 50! Many happy returns :)

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  4. Oh!! Oh!! Happy Birthday!! I hope you had tons upon tons of fun on your birthday, Mr. K!!

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  5. The reason your hubby still looks young at fifty is because fifty IS young! It's all a matter of perspective. I remember reading a book when I was in second grade that featured a 12-year-old sixth grader. At the time, I thought THAT was old. Now, the older I get, the older "old" is. Think young, and stay young. (as long as no one looks too closely!)

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  6. Happy Birthday to your hubs! You both look great in that photo & very cute.

    Looking forward to seeing the cover of your YA! :)

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  7. That's a GREAT photo!

    Hope your husband has a happy one. And no, fifty is NOT old.
    I've got a sundial that I slap to my wrist. Sure, it saves money when it comes to replacement watches, but it's rather cumbersome when I wear long sleeves.

    Like the blog! Good luck with your writing!

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  8. Happy birthday to your hubby and honestly you look like a teenager in that picture girl.

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  9. Thanks, everyone, for the well wishes. And, Odie, I'm blowing a kiss your way ("you look like a teenager") that made my day.

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  10. Happy Birthday to your hubs! As for you being a forty-something gal, and he being a fifty year old guy, I must say...you are both defying your true ages marvelously! What's the secret?

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  11. Happy birthday to your hubby! Cute pic! :)

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