bday90 party with aarp!

Remember that "AARP Happy Hour" party that I went to on July 18?

Yeah, the one at Savannah Technical College that no one else attended.

Well, as it turned out, I had the date wrong.

That meant I was double-booked for the real date, which was today.

What to do, what to do?

Well, I did what any busy, vibrant woman would do: I attended both events!

(smile!)

I started off at Eckburg Auditorium, and even had my photo taken!

That's because the AARP Georgia chapter was present, as well as other attendees like myself, unlike that other rainy afternoon.

Hooray!

That photo of me looks pretty good, doesn't it?

I was dressed in my 'blue daisies' dress, with my hair plaited to the right, all ready for my volunteer usher duties at SVF13.

I said I was overbooked, didn't I?

My plan was to celebrate with these folks, then head downtown.

After all, there was food here, and dance music, too!

It was all for the 90th birthday of the Social Security Act, which will actually be on August 14th.

Thank you, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the 74th U.S. Congress!!!

All of us at this shindig, and millions more, would be in deep poverty without that public payroll savings program instigated back in 1935.

That got us in line with other industrialized nations, so that was good.

I wish I could have stayed for some of the games and trivia, but by 5:15 I was out the door, back into a light drizzle, and headed north to Unitarian Universalist Church for the second of two nights of opera at that location.

I'm glad those were Mock Mojitos for that soiree!

(smile!)