Friday, June 23, 2006
In a couple of weeks, I'm gonna be 55. You realize this means I can now order off the Senior's menu at Bob Evans.

Frankly I am amazed and astounded I survived this long. I have not been the most careful of humans. In fact, some folks consider me a walking disaster. LOL! I've been caught in hotel sprinklers, knocked down store mannequins, tripped over a barrel (that's right one of the big barrels) of peanuts, lost control of a power tool and fell out of a tree. And that's just the junk my short term memory will allow me to remember.

Yet, here I stand. Almost 55. Not too concerned over life's valleys anymore. Live long enough ya pretty much get to a place where you say, "Well, hell. here we go again." And then you just roll right through.

Anyway Tumble began the idea on her board, then Barman reminded me accidentally. I thought then and now pics might be appropriate considering. Anybody else want to play? Cause I'd love to see your pics.

Me at 5. last at the table till the day I die, people. Count on it.














Me at 16. I can NOT believe I was wearing pink. GAK! What a priss!


















Me at 49. The year I straddled the hotel sprinkler at 2am and the damn thing went off.













And now. Tickled purple cuz I get to eat cheaper at Bob Evans!
(btw. they have excellent deserts!)


































The legs aren't so good anymore but, I still have two of them! What else do ya need?


 
posted by Crabby at 10:57 AM |


29 Comments:


At 6/23/2006 11:56 AM, Blogger barman

I will try but I am not sure I really have pictures of me. Any more I am taking the pictures and back then, well back then my parents took slides ... wait, I do have at least a couple around graduation from high school, maybe more. I will see what I can find but I am not promising anything.

 

At 6/23/2006 12:10 PM, Blogger SignGurl

How much hotter could you be? I think it's you that's causing all the global warming Al Gore claims is going on. My God, woman, you could melt and iceburg.

 

At 6/23/2006 1:39 PM, Blogger Crabby

Barman, do it. I think it would be so fun for everybody to post past and present pics!

Sign, you crack me up. I don't think I'm meltin anything lately. LOL! Cept my ice cream cones. My melting days are over, I fear.

Sal, what else? A nice table saw, baby. That what I'm talkin about.

 

At 6/23/2006 2:09 PM, Blogger barman

OK, because you droped your other post since it duplicated the pictures...

Hubba, Hubba and this time I mean it.

 

At 6/23/2006 2:36 PM, Blogger Crabby

AHHHHHHHH HA HA HA! Why thank you, gentlemen. I do believe you just made my week.

I love you guys too.

 

At 6/23/2006 5:54 PM, Blogger Manny

You have all my old pics. Will you mail them to me? Just a couple per mail.

Guys! She is pretty hot isn't she? She always has been.

Crabby, I think Sal is in luv with you. No wonder we call him dangerous.

Come on barman, play with us.

Signgurl, I thought you liked me.
LMAO

 

At 6/23/2006 6:35 PM, Blogger Crabby

LOL! Sal's in love with my new toolbelt.

 

At 6/23/2006 7:45 PM, Blogger Mouthy Girl

OMG! Great idea! I'm praying I can find the one of me with two of my three sisters. I think I was...three or four.

BTW, I want my legs to look like yours when I'm 55! Cripes, sister, you're a hottie!

 

At 6/23/2006 9:50 PM, Blogger jamwall

i have ridden barrels of peanuts down a waterfall of hotel sprinklers while using power tools!

that and i do my rendition of "Last Tango in Paris" with 50 department store mannaquins.

its very saucy!

 

At 6/23/2006 11:44 PM, Blogger Evil Minx

Oh, no fcuking way! No way! You are *not* 55.

You can't be!

You look absurdly young and far too beautiful. Hell, you certainly don't act your age -- and i mean that in as complimentary a manner as possible.

Although you seem to have led an unbelievably active life. Knocking down mannequins, tripping over barrels of peanuts -- i have so much yet to do with my life, apparently...!

Seriously, babe, you're a knockout. My legs should only look that good at the tender age of 37.

Kisses
Minxy

 

At 6/24/2006 4:52 AM, Blogger Suze

You are hot enough for me. So you are now a blonde bombshell!

Also you have a wealth of experience to share with us all. And we are all ears! ;)

 

At 6/24/2006 8:37 AM, Blogger Roxi

god damn woman you were and are fucking hot!

I just pray to god that I look that good when I am 55..

hey.. If I take you to bob evans.. can I sneak some of your dessert.. and a little of your mashed potatoes..

I'm to cheap to actually get my own food.

 

At 6/24/2006 8:58 AM, Blogger Crabby

Buddah girl, Yes! Find them. It's also kind of funny to look at the changes over the years to me. Oddly one thing stays constant...me at the table eating. LOL!

Jam, Dude! I bet that IS saucy. My experience with the maniquin wasn't good. They're hard as rock when you fall on top of one. I had a bruise for weeks.

Minxy, Wow! Thank you, sincerely. I stay real busy much to Bob's dismay. Poor Bob. He really does need to catch a break from me. I fear I'm driving him right round the bend. LOL! But I have a good time, pretty much all the time.

hardasabullet. Welcome! and THANK YOU!

Suze, I did the blond thing last year cause I got bored. (Much better than the last thing I did when I was bored.) Almost all my experiences end with me in one kind of trouble or another. I have video tapes of some stuff. I'll post them eventually. Sadly, my track record for maturity is ....well, to be honest, non-existant. LOL!

Denny, all I can tell you is, the sprinklers were COLD! oh man, I was soooo wasted that night. It was free drinks all night. They had two colors (blue and yellow) and I had one color in each hand all the time cause I wanted to drink green.

 

At 6/24/2006 11:57 AM, Blogger wmy

I am gonna try and find some pics too!! That sweet 16 pic is great too! Such an innocent look in your eyes...yeah right....little did the world know that the crabster was just gettin started!! btw, woot,woot for the restaurant discounts!!lol and lol again!!

 

At 6/24/2006 2:45 PM, Blogger Crabby

Rox! I missed you before. Have you been up there all along? I'm so sorry!

Yes, you can share my desert and my taters too. I'll even get extra gravy. Seniors can do that.

wmy, actually I'm just now getting started. LOL! I have all kinds of plans.

Definitely put up pics. It's so fun to look at people's changing pics.

I'm waiting for bob to get out of the shower. We still have a full night ahead. The air conditioner guy was here alllll blasted day. But I still got my Mexican food. WOOT! I need to go do something while I wait.

 

At 6/24/2006 7:25 PM, Blogger Zen Wizard

This is bogus, man!

Our generation made a deal with God! We had to watch the Vietnam War and the Kennedy assassination on TV--in exchange for that, we were supposed to get eternal youth!

What a rip...

 

At 6/25/2006 4:36 AM, Blogger Manny

Hey! I sat through 'Watergate' What do I get?

 

At 6/25/2006 6:10 AM, Blogger Crabby

Zen, dude! You're right! I forgot about that. OOOOOOO. Ok. Now I'm pissed.

Manny, judging by the luck Zen and I have had, I'd say you'll probably get vericose veins, babe.

That's ok. Least you'll have me to set the path for ya.

Although I seem to find myself a little depressed today. Yesterday was a tough one.

 

At 6/25/2006 7:02 AM, Blogger barman

Let's see we got the Kennedy assacination; Vietnam War; Watergate; Nixon not being a crook and the resigning; OJ Simpson Bronco chase and trial; Micheal Jackson trial; etc.

Maybe it is just time to turn the TV OFF!

Sorry to hear you had a tough day yesterday Crabbs. Today will be better, just wait and see.

*hugs* for my favorite crazy buckeye.

 

At 6/26/2006 12:13 AM, Blogger Mone

wow crabby, you are so young in spirit and you look so good. you are beautiful.
I always say, you are as old as you feel you are. I'm almost 40 and I dont feel like it, at least most of the time =)

 

At 6/26/2006 8:31 AM, Blogger barman

Wait a minute, I thought that was you are as young as the one you feel. Thanks for straightening me out Mone.

Crabbs, I hope you can pop in and say hi sometime. I am begining to worry you meet the same fate as Zeke and Zekette.

 

At 6/26/2006 8:46 AM, Blogger MilkMaid

I've said it a million times before, you age so well, you bitch.

LOL...I like your blonde hair, but I have to say, I liked you as a redhead better...and I WANT THAT GREEN SHIRT!

xxoo

 

At 6/26/2006 9:42 AM, Blogger Roxi

yeah I was all like..

wtf.. I'm being neglected now??

wtf??

I'll just steal that bitches potatoes and dessert..

but then you awnsered me..

and now I feel better

 

At 6/26/2006 12:44 PM, Blogger Crabby

Barman, baby, the whole weekend was interspersed with bad news. At one point it felt like bad news was coming from every direction at once.

I guess that's how life rolls though. One minute it's all good, the next you're either standing in your own ka ka or somebody elses. Or like in this case, it's just heart-breaking stuff.

But we move on. Or we get trampled by the heard, right? So on we go.

 

At 6/26/2006 12:49 PM, Blogger Crabby

Mone, if you'd been with me this weekend you might have been a little bit ashamed of me. LOL!

Milky, are you sure you want it? It's got permanent nacho drips on it. And a couple of color stains from when my twisted DQ cone with sprinkles melted and I didn't wash it fast enough.

Rox, LOL! I would, nor could, ever ignore you, baby. And get your fingers outa my taters. I keep tellin ya, use a spoon!

 

At 6/26/2006 1:16 PM, Blogger Spoony Quine

` Crabby, you look about as good as my mom does, and she's... actually a little older than you, I think.
` I probably can expect to have the same fate.
` ...Men will probably still attack me from all sides. Mmm boy.

 

At 6/27/2006 1:05 PM, Blogger Crabby

seequin, didn't see you down here. Thanks. And remember, if they don't attack you, you can always attack them first. LOL!

 

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