Asakiyume mita - 102 years old

From: watermelontail Date: April 30th, 2008 05:15 pm (UTC) (Link)

Happy birthday to your grandma!

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From: asakiyume Date: April 30th, 2008 05:16 pm (UTC) (Link)

Thank you. Little springtime noted that she's just 13 years younger than the oldest person alive.

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From: watermelontail Date: April 30th, 2008 05:17 pm (UTC) (Link)

Sounds like a goal.

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From: origa Date: April 30th, 2008 05:22 pm (UTC) (Link)

Wonderful celebration -- Happy birthday to your grandma! :)

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From: asakiyume Date: April 30th, 2008 05:32 pm (UTC) (Link)

Thank you--she seemed very happy.

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From: origa Date: April 30th, 2008 05:38 pm (UTC) (Link)

Does she walk, talk, are in good memory, etc.? If so -- that's just great!

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From: asakiyume Date: April 30th, 2008 05:42 pm (UTC) (Link)

Her memory is no good any more, very jumbled, and she's not clear on people, but her spirits are very good and her loving personality is the same as ever, even in her confusion. Other than that, she is in good health.

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From: desert_sparrow Date: April 30th, 2008 05:26 pm (UTC) (Link)

Happy birthday to your grandmother!

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From: asakiyume Date: April 30th, 2008 05:32 pm (UTC) (Link)

Thank you--and I do love your new userpic.

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From: sovay Date: April 30th, 2008 05:48 pm (UTC) (Link)

to help celebrate my grandmother's 102nd birthday

Wow. Happy birthday to her!

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From: asakiyume Date: April 30th, 2008 05:53 pm (UTC) (Link)

Yes, it's pretty amazing. Daunting, even. But she herself was cheerful and smiling as ever.

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From: ebourland Date: April 30th, 2008 05:55 pm (UTC) (Link)

Many good wishes.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 30th, 2008 05:57 pm (UTC) (Link)

Thank you--if she can see them all arriving, these good wishes, she will be very pleased and delighted indeed.

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From: marmota_monax Date: April 30th, 2008 06:20 pm (UTC) (Link)

She's just over 100 years older than the Pixie! Wow!

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From: asakiyume Date: April 30th, 2008 06:25 pm (UTC) (Link)

Quite a thought!

Happy birthday to Pixie!

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From: marmota_monax Date: April 30th, 2008 06:29 pm (UTC) (Link)

Egad, I think I was unclear. Pixie's birthday is end of September. Your gram is 100 years 5 months older than the Pix, to be more specific.

I'm tired and a bit of an ass today.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 30th, 2008 06:32 pm (UTC) (Link)

Not at all :-D

happy birthday, give or take a few months--which in my grandmother's reckoning would be as nothing, though they're quite significant at Pixie's age.

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From: grayheyes Date: April 30th, 2008 06:49 pm (UTC) (Link)

102? Wow.

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From: asakiyume Date: May 1st, 2008 01:40 am (UTC) (Link)

Yeah! She keeps her spirits mainly up, too, which is great.

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From: jmeadows Date: April 30th, 2008 06:55 pm (UTC) (Link)

Wow! Happy birthday to your grandma! That's pretty amazing.

I love the crow in a tangle of branches. It looks like he's in the most elaborate cage on earth.

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From: asakiyume Date: May 1st, 2008 01:39 am (UTC) (Link)

She's a trooper :-)

What you've said about the tree branches makes me want to design a really fantastical bird cage!

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From: jmeadows Date: May 1st, 2008 09:31 am (UTC) (Link)

That would be really neat!

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From: behindpyramids Date: April 30th, 2008 06:56 pm (UTC) (Link)

I. Love. That. Song.


I also love your entries.

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From: asakiyume Date: May 1st, 2008 01:33 am (UTC) (Link)

I really, really love that song too--it felt really special to have it bracket the visit.

re: entries--the feeling is mutual!

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From: shikuchi Date: April 30th, 2008 09:43 pm (UTC) (Link)

I did like hearing time after time on the way there AND on the way back. It's like the two versions, with the male and female singer, were singing to each other. Sort of.

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From: asakiyume Date: May 1st, 2008 01:41 am (UTC) (Link)

What a great idea, them singing to each other :-)

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From: alexfiles Date: May 1st, 2008 12:13 am (UTC) (Link)

How perfectly lovely - the music, the birthday, the crow.

So strange to realize people are alive now who could have known people who were alive during Napoleon's life, or Beethoven's. Quite unsettling....

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From: asakiyume Date: May 1st, 2008 01:35 am (UTC) (Link)

I think that too! About people being links to the past, and if you have long-lived people in each generation, how far back you can reach. It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I think about it.

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From: myhappythoughts Date: May 1st, 2008 12:36 am (UTC) (Link)

I am amazed that your grandmother has made it to 102! It makes me smile for some reason. Is she very active still or is she in a nursing home or? Just curious.

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From: asakiyume Date: May 1st, 2008 01:38 am (UTC) (Link)

She lives in an assisted-living home now. Her memory is all confused--she forgets when it is (like, are her children in high school? Is her husband still alive?), but she still laughs and jokes about things and reads the newspaper. She can walk about on her own, but not very fast or far. She is a very good sport ♥

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From: myhappythoughts Date: May 1st, 2008 02:23 am (UTC) (Link)

Wow, it's so great that she's functioning so well. I'm happy for her :)

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From: shortiyergirl Date: May 1st, 2008 01:01 am (UTC) (Link)

I think it's wonderful that you can be with your grandmother on her birthday.
I'm too far away to be with my two.

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From: asakiyume Date: May 1st, 2008 01:39 am (UTC) (Link)

Yes, I felt--and feel-- really lucky.

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From: hollailama Date: May 1st, 2008 03:21 am (UTC) (Link)

*happy sigh* I love your life. :p

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From: asakiyume Date: May 1st, 2008 07:08 pm (UTC) (Link)

Well thank you :-) One day maybe our two lives will intersect.

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From: wicapis Date: May 1st, 2008 03:38 pm (UTC) (Link)

Oh...WoW! She's seen and experienced so much in her lifetime. From horse carriage to motor cars. Was she born in Mass?
And Birthday Greetings to your grandmother.

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From: asakiyume Date: May 1st, 2008 07:09 pm (UTC) (Link)

Yes, she was born in Massachusetts :-) And I think too of how much has changed during her life.... thanks for the greetings.

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From: a_soft_world Date: May 2nd, 2008 02:26 am (UTC) (Link)

And guess what I heard on my way to work yesterday, right after reading this? :) love that song.

Happy, happy birthday to your grandmother! I hope I die before I get that old.

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From: asakiyume Date: May 2nd, 2008 02:32 am (UTC) (Link)

Yeah, I think I do do.

I love that song as well. Little springtime and I just listened to both versions.

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