Grandpa's birthday
Jan. 3rd, 2008 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpToday is my grandfather's 90th birthday! That is so frickin' amazing! I went to call him for his birthday this morning and he wasn't home - he was out getting a haircut. Let us count all of the ways that this is so awesome:
1. He has enough hair to get a haircut. At 90.
2. He is healthy enough to go get a haircut by himself.
3. He drove his own car to get a haircut.
I mean, seriously, people! He is 90 years old! He lives in his own house (with my grandmother), drives his own car, recently bought himself a new computer because his other one was "too old," sends e-mail to his relatives in Portugal and Brazil, and goes out for coffee every day to meet his friends.
He was born in 1918. 1918! Can you even imagine what it must be like to have lived from 1918 to 2008? From no phones to phones with operators to rotary phones to push-button phones to cordless phones to cell phones. From no TV to radio shows to black and white TV to color TV to cable TV to high definition TV. And the car technology! And computers! Oh my goodness, the stories he can tell.
I hope that if I live to be 90 (or older), I am in as good shape as he is. It is the most amazing thing ever. I can't stop gushing about it. I just love him so much.
1. He has enough hair to get a haircut. At 90.
2. He is healthy enough to go get a haircut by himself.
3. He drove his own car to get a haircut.
I mean, seriously, people! He is 90 years old! He lives in his own house (with my grandmother), drives his own car, recently bought himself a new computer because his other one was "too old," sends e-mail to his relatives in Portugal and Brazil, and goes out for coffee every day to meet his friends.
He was born in 1918. 1918! Can you even imagine what it must be like to have lived from 1918 to 2008? From no phones to phones with operators to rotary phones to push-button phones to cordless phones to cell phones. From no TV to radio shows to black and white TV to color TV to cable TV to high definition TV. And the car technology! And computers! Oh my goodness, the stories he can tell.
I hope that if I live to be 90 (or older), I am in as good shape as he is. It is the most amazing thing ever. I can't stop gushing about it. I just love him so much.
