40-Renovation -- Part 2 -- Not Alone

I really think that the 40th birthday of someone's life is really a significant moment.  My weight is only part of the 40-renovation.  Mentally I am a different person.  It has changed the way I think about some things, react to other things, care about some things, and discard and not even pay attention to most things that just simply don't matter to me directly.  Now that I have started to pay attention to it (as with most things) I am finding that there are many others out there who go through this same experience.

http://takimag.com/article/10_things_about_turning_40
Hilarious!  Geared more towards men, but applicable to really anyone.  Very funny video in the middle of the page. =)

http://blog.thesource4ym.com/archive/2010/03/19/top-10-signs-youre-turning-40.aspx
Also very funny blog about turning 40.  Again a little more geared towards the men, but men sometimes have a way of just really laying it all out there that in its comedic simplicity just makes me laugh. =)


http://womenatforty.com/about-this-site/
An entire site dedicated to Women at 40.  Life. Love. Reality. In our fortieth year.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n10_v52/ai_19653902/
Excerpt:  Camille Cosby told it to Oprah and Oprah told it to me and, a few weeks ago, I told it to a Sister-friend who was feeling down, distressed and depressed because her life was about to take a dreaded turn. She was turning 40.  What Oprah told me Camille told her and I told my friend is this: "You should be out on your veranda dancing because you are about to experience one of the most magnificent, marvelous events in a woman's life."

http://turning40.net/
Another site dedicated to turning 40.

http://www.theboot.com/2010/06/29/court-yard-hounds-cher/
Cher recounts to Martie from the Dixie Chicks how her 40th year was her best year.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1705115/ - Kevin Smith:  Too Fat for 40!

This isn't a link to an article but a movie.  In typical Kevin Smith style of his Q&A sessions, one audience member asks a question which then turns into a two hour answer session filled the realities of this time period in our lives, lived through a man with way more money and resources than most of us - so in other words not different - but amplified. =)

and of course, Louis CK above. =)