(Oh yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees – days and days and days and daaaaaaaaaaays of celebration. You can send me gifts in lieu of flowers or cake per my birthday season RULES, #3).
To celebrate I slept-in late . . .
Oh nooooooooooooooooo – I have vertical ridges in my fingernails. So, of course, I googled “fingernail ridges”:
“There are many reasons for ridged nails but the most common is aging,” says Dr. Phoebe Rich, M.D, clinical adjunct professor of dermatology at Oregon Health Science University. “As we age the nail matrix becomes atrophied in areas resulting in longitudinal ridging of nails. I tell people they are like wrinkles in the nails.”
It’s bad enough that my face is wrinkling . . . my neck is wrinkling . . . and now! my fingernails are wrinkling!
The next thing I know I’ll wake up and I will look like a Shar-pei.
Bob Blobfish sez: “I’d be upset too if I woke up looking like a Shar-pei”
CURIOUS to the MAX 
You need to get credit for many of your friends wrinkles (me included as I rightly assume a position of one of your BFFs). Anyone who has the honor to be included in your life knows you show no mercy when it comes to picking on us constantly. Why the wrinkles you ask – because you pick on us with such hilarity that we can’t stop laughing. Laugh wrinkles are the best.
I would be honored to bake you a cake. What is your pleasure my dear? Perhaps that triple layer chocolate number with a super thin layer of almond paste under the thick chocolate glaze that covers the cake; a fruit jam of your choice spread thinly between each layer (I prefer raspberry). HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
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Judith Clemmer Ma’am,
(I only pick on the ones I love.)
What my pleasure is and what I can eat are two completely different things! I’m currently on a no-white flour-little to no-sugar passing my aging lips. Trying to see if it makes a difference in my pain/fatigue. If you can whip up a gluten free, low sugar deeeeeeelight I would be in heaven. Every gluten free baked good I’ve made tastes like wet cement or worse . . . concrete.
Thanks for the happy birthday!!!!!!!
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There you are. I just sent you an email mentioning not hearing from you. Didn’t think to look here (duh!). Still not up to speed on this blogging thing. If there were yummy things that didn’t have sugar or flour I would be making them and becoming a millionaire. Hugs,
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Judith,
You do make yummy things out of cloth and beads and other non-fattening things!
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Brain wrinkles are very good – the more you have the smartier you are. (Yes I did mean smartier – I just made up that word because I got another brain wrinkle and had to give it a job so I gave it a degree in neology and it made up that word.)
Your turn, Judy, share the new word your new brain wrinkle made up in honor of your birthday.
BTW, shar-pei puppy very cute, could be called cutier. Blob fish, not so much, could be called uglier. Wait, that’s already a word. Crap, my new brain wrinkle just went to sleep.
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Shari B-P,
My Wrain Brinkles are sneaking out through my skull and showing up on my face. I am a lot smartier now that I’m old because when I was young I didn’t know I was a smartie.
My wirthday is wirth a lot to a few and a little to a lot . . .
xxxxxx j.
Please do not refer to Bob the Blobfish as uglier . .. he’s very sensitive.
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Wrain Brinkles – love it!!!!!!
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I slept late, too–by accident. I hate sleeping late so it definitely wasn’t a birthday gift. Sigh.
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Jacqui,
I’ve grown to like sleeping as late as I want so I can stay up as late as I want. Privilege comes with age.
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There’s such a thing as a birthday season??!?!?! Guess I’m in the midst of mine then too!!! And I have one vertical wrinkle on my thumb…..who woulda though?!?! 😁
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Dear Dragonfly,
Yes! You must read my post on the birthday season RULES. If you want to have a birthday season you must follow the rules. http://judithwesterfield.com/2016/02/10/my-annual-birthday-season/
Wrinkles begin with the thumb and then spread to the face, neck before traveling down the body to the thighs.
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Haha!!! I’m more of a rule breaker than follower!! I did go over and read them…but have decided I need to be inebriated on chocolate anything first…then I’ll go back and retread them!!! 😄
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Spiritual D.,
Chocolate is perfect (as is anything replete with unrefined sugar).
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So that’s what the ridges mean? Great. Let the hits just keep on coming!! (It’s still better than the alternative)
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Rosemary,
Sometimes there are days when the alternative has looked good . . . but luckily today is not one of them!
xxxxx j.
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Oh dear! I’ve had wrinkles in my finger nails for years!
Happy Birthday Season! Enjoy. Hope there are no more surprises regarding aging.
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TaleWeaving Lorraine,
Yes, there are MANY more surprises regarding aging but I can’t tell you what they are or you won’t be surprised.
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Put a photo of your face from 10 years instead of the current one current one. I have several I will be glad to share, but BABY you still look awesome!
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Bernice,
I can’t stop laughing at your comment BECAUSE that picture is from about 5-6 years ago!
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