Age Is Just A Number

I just returned from a spur-of-the-moment visit at Diva Stacy's home.  She had one of the worst days in her tenure at AAA, and she was in need of rescuing.  What better to put her in a good mood than watching our favorite videos on You Tube.  Actually, I believe the Patron that I brought helped, too, but Tiny Elvis and Pearl The Landlord made us both laugh.  After we watched our favorite joke videos, I started looking for some music videos, and we watched about an hour's worth of Ann and Nancy Wilson from the Divas' favorite rock group Heart.  We watched a concert video clip from 2000, and then took a walk down memory lane and watched some clips from 1977.   As we were starting the second video from 1977, it dawned on us both that that was thirty years ago.  It seemed like yesterday that we were down in Diva Stacy's basement listening to our Heart records as we sang along and played the guitar with the records. 

She had an awesome stereo, and we would crank it up as we played "Barracuda" and "Crazy On You."  I wasn't content to just sing along - I would lug over my first amplifier and my guitar and I would play along with the records as we sang.  Actually, before I had my license, one of the 'Rents would drive me and my gear over. But I digress.  Were quite good for teenagers, I have to say.  Our love for music was one of the things that made the Divas become friends back in the day, and it's a thread that has been woven into our lives ever since.  But it seemed weird tonight to think that we first listened to Heart thirty years ago.  It sure doesn't seem that long ago.

I know we're not kids any more; hell, we're what most people consider middle-age.  But we still had a hard time comprehending that it was thirty years ago.  But we don't feel middle-age.  I'd bet that most twenty-something girls could not have kept up with our pace at this January's DLV2 trip.  I don't know too many that could have worked a full day at the office, came home and packed, slept for only a few hours because they were so excited, flew to Las Vegas, and stay up for over 24 hours. We can do anything that the young girls can do; only we need a nap.