You know you are “Over The Hill” when :
- You and your teeth don’t sleep together.
2. You try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks and discover you aren’t wearing any.
3. At the breakfast table you hear snap, crackle, pop and you’re not eating cereal.
4. It takes two tries to get up from the couch.
5. Your idea of a night out is sitting on the patio.
6. Happy hour is a nap.
7. You’re on vacation and your energy runs out before your money does.
8. All you want for your birthday is not be reminded of your age.
9. Your idea of weight lifting is standing up.
10 It takes longer to rest than it did to get tired.
11. Your address book has mostly names that start with “Dr.”
12. You sit in a rocking chair and can’t get it going.
13. The pharmacist has become your new best friend.
14. Getting lucky means you found your car in the parking lot.
15. The twinkle in your eye is only a reflection from the sun on your bifocals.
16. It takes twice as long to look half as good.
17. Everything hurts and what doesn’t hurt doesn’t work.
18. You step off a curb and look down one more time to make sure the street is still there.
19. You look for your glasses for half an hour and they were on your head the whole time.
20. You wonder how you could be over the hill when you don’t even remember being on top of it.
Amar, for your birthday today, these are just the twenty appetizers….….the main course is still cooking 
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We know that we could pull this one ONLY on you; so taking the liberty. Am sure you are already planning sweet revenge for our sweet young birthdays coming up…… better think twice !!!! ;).
Jokes aside; to someone as special and dear as you, all we can say is :-
Instead of counting candles,
Or tallying the years,
Contemplate your blessings now,
As your birthday nears.
Consider special people
Who love you, and who care,
And others who’ve enriched your life
Just by being there.
Think about the memories
Passing years can never mar,
Experiences great and small
That have made you who you are.
Another year is a happy gift,
So cut your cake, and say,
“Instead of counting birthdays,
I count blessings every day!”
We tried to make a cake with the theme as ‘Cricket’; and know that you would surely appreciate our little efforts; P.S : The cake tasted wonderful; {though the decor sucked}; we are sure you would have liked it; and two servings would be needed by you.
Here is the recipe for the Walnut Cake :
Flour 2 cups, chopped walnuts 2 cups, chopped dates 1.5 cups, grated carrots 2 cups, powdered sugar 2 cups, 3 large eggs (separated and egg white beaten stiff), baking powder 1 teaspoon, soda-bi-carb 1 teaspoon, spice powder mix (2 teaspoons), oil 1.5 cups, vanilla essence 1 teaspoon, walnut essence 1 teaspoon.
Sift flour with baking powder and soda-bicarb and keep aside. Separate the eggs and beat the egg white till stiff peaks form and keep aside. In a large bow mix together the powdered sugar, 3 egg yolks and oil. When the sugar is completely mixed add chopped dates, walnuts and grated carrots. At this stage you can stop beating with the hand-mixer and mix with a wooden spoon or spatula. Add flour and essences and spices. Then fold the stiff egg white. Bake in a preheated moderately hot oven (160-170 deg c) for approx 1.5 hours in a deep square or round pan. Apply a crumb icing to the cold cake and then top with fondant icing and decorate to your liking.
