{"id":2297,"date":"2008-11-02T12:15:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T17:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/downtownsusiebrown\/2008\/11\/countdown-to-40.html"},"modified":"2016-10-28T16:12:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T16:12:51","slug":"countdown-to-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/downtownsusiebrown\/2008\/11\/countdown-to-40\/","title":{"rendered":"The Count Down to 40&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/downtownsusiebrown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2009\/01\/img_0244.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0244.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/downtownsusiebrown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2009\/01\/img_0244.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/downtownsusiebrown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2009\/01\/img_0244-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>One week and counting until the big day.<br \/>\n<\/em>In the last month I relived my high school days with the &#8220;cool chicks of &#8217;86&#8221; (it was high school &#8211; what can I say?), went back to my husband&#8217;s college and attempted to fathom that college was 20 years ago! Visited NYC &#8211; where I spent my 20&#8217;s and where so much of who I am was molded. Well, it&#8217;s time to put those times behind me and embrace the 40&#8217;s. But, before I do so &#8211; I need to look <em>fabulous!! <\/em>I&#8217;m ready mentally &#8211; but it&#8217;s time to get there <em>physically!<\/em> Gym classes to suffer through, nails to be done, facials, eye-brow&#8217;s to be waxed, and of course a great outfit to be found! Lot&#8217;s to do &#8211; but I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be able to get it all done <strong>downtown!<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>(above glasses found at the loose-caboose at <strong>Saratoga Shoe Depot<\/strong>. Painting on the base done at <strong>Creative Sparks on Phila Street<\/strong>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> One week and counting until the big day.In the last month I relived my high school days with the &#8220;cool chicks of &#8217;86&#8221; (it was high school &#8211; what can I say?), went back to my husband&#8217;s college and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eat","category-fashion","category-add-category"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>The Count Down to 40.... - Downtown Susie Brown - Saratoga Shopping Blog For Downtown Saratoga Springs NY<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/downtownsusiebrown\/2008\/11\/countdown-to-40\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Count Down to 40.... - Downtown Susie Brown - Saratoga Shopping Blog For Downtown Saratoga Springs NY\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One week and counting until the big day.In the last month I relived my high school days with the &quot;cool chicks of &#039;86&quot; 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