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[Pilgrim1951]

Thank you ladies. I was not offended, just wanted to get a reaction.
Macca.

Typical man!

 

[Pilgrim1951]

Ya know? I think the neck is the first thing to go. I remember as a teen, I wondered why some of my middle-aged teachers wore scarves all the time.

In my experience it seems like everything went all at once.:o

 

[miggles]

I mean,

 

[Savedsis]

Ya know? I think the neck is the first thing to go. I remember as a teen, I wondered why some of my middle-aged teachers wore scarves all the time.

I wondered that too...Now I know why....
I have been going by mirrors lately and I think who is that??? It is amazing...lol

 

[miggles]

Yep. You have to adjust to the creature you see in the mirror.

It's not easy. I'm still working a it.

 

[Ms.Garnet]

You ladies are so funny & have made me smile today ! I feel the age creeping up on me in my body, but my mind still tells me I am not old YET! I know with a little effort I could pass for 30 (maybe !). But, I enjoy being a granny and have to laugh at some of the stuff my daughter is learning as she ages/matures! !
I work with an 82 yr. old male, 78 yr. old female, and there is a 98 yr. old lady down the road that makes me look like I am 150 ! Her mind is crystal clear & her outlook is full of youth & she gets around real good too! I feel like a kid around them !

 

[miggles]

Yes, it's neat to be around the elderly. I feel like a kid, too.

 

[frogalone]

I just found CF and am really enjoying the diversity. I've been part of another Christain community for four years; it's slowed a lot after some recent changes.
Ohhh, do I hear you about aging. I've always been disabled, but my looks were important because of how people responded to them. Now age lines just magnify my facial involvement; when I'm stressed or excited I look like a stroke victim. I really hate that.
I've recently noticed my neck is starting to get 'that look'. I've been told I can pass for 8-10 years younger, but I'm sure that's only in my good moments. My legs are getting more of those little red veins. I'm overweight, but if I lose too much, I wonder if I'll turn to a mass of wrinkles.

 

[fieldlily]

You ladies are so funny & have made me smile today ! I feel the age creeping up on me in my body, but my mind still tells me I am not old YET! I know with a little effort I could pass for 30 (maybe !). But, I enjoy being a granny and have to laugh at some of the stuff my daughter is learning as she ages/matures! !
I work with an 82 yr. old male, 78 yr. old female, and there is a 98 yr. old lady down the road that makes me look like I am 150 ! Her mind is crystal clear & her outlook is full of youth & she gets around real good too! I feel like a kid around them !

Happy Birthdayto you, Ms. Garnett, this week.

I do agree...age tends to be relative (except for health issues of course) and really depends on the person and how they see life. Of course, good genes help!! Some of the youngest people I know have been older people who passed some kind of point of no return and became mellowed and wonderful persons. Some, of course, don't do that and become well...won't get into the cranky ones...which sometimes I am...

A few years ago I asked my 88 year old friend, Audrey, who had out lived so many of her peers how she managed to go on after losing her friends. She said, "You keep making new younger ones!" And she did that when she became my friend. She is gone now, but I remember that and as I lost my two best friends these past few years I am also making new ones and reaffirming those who remain. It is a challenge for which I ask God's grace and help often since getting to know people always takes me a while. I marvel at how others do this. But I think Audrey (mentioned above) just did it and didn't hold back like I sometimes do in new social situations.

 

[Ms.Garnet]

Thanks for the birthday greeting Birdie ! I had to laugh when I read the weight loss might turn Scootermom into a mass of wrinkles ! I am getting a few wrinkles & a few gray hairs, but I could patch it up & look a lot younger if I would lose a little weight myself. I was always teased about looking so young. When hubby & I married I was TINY in size and he was a big bear. He is tall, I am short , he is 8 1/2 yrs. older & already had a LOT of gray hair ! We took a lot of kidding. I have NEVER worn my wedding ring because it breaks my finger out. For a few years as my husband showed his age more & I was still tiny and very young looking we would be out eating lunch. I noticed we got dirty looks on too often occasion. I couldn't figure it out until one day an older lady kept looking giving us that dirty look and it dawned on me perhaps she thought he was a dirty old man out for a lunch date with some young homewrecker (he wore his band & I never did) ! I had the biggest laugh at the thought of it because we had been married for 25 yrs. !

 

[fieldlily]

Ms. Garnett,

Cute post and I continue to relate to your story. For years my husband looked like a teenager as I aged a little more than he. Not so much now, however. Once I remember a lady said..."You are older than your husband, aren't you?" He is four years older than me. Yeek....

birdie

 

[frogalone]

It's just been my observation that thin ladies have more wrinkles. LOL. Of course, I could just be trying to console myself. Actually, since my husband recently become diabetic, we've both been eating more wisely.
He is my age, but before he shaved his gray beard, a couple people referred to me as his daughter. Boy, did I tease him about that! What got to him, tho', was when some kid called him Santa Claus.

 

[miggles]

Lol. I have been using a lot of lotion lately all over. I figure your body is like a plant. The more you take care of it, the better it looks. lol.

 

[miggles]

I went shopping in the junior department at Penney's again today. This time, I saw two other middle-aged women in it. I felt better. They were reading the T-shirts and laughing. Here's what some of them said:

1. Major Attitude
2. Don't give me your attitude, I already have one.
3. *poof* You're gone!
4. You have the perfect face, for radio.
5. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.



Anyway, while they were reading the T-shirts, I looked around for tops on sale. This time, instead of wondering what the clerk might be thinking, I thought maybe the tops on the racks were thinking: "Oh, please don't buy me, you old bag. I'd be mortified on YOU!"

 

[MotherOfPromise]

I was once called an old bag. It has been a source of amusement since.

I've often wondered what kind of bag that would be.

A shopping bag, a laundry bag, a handbag, a brown paper bag? I might be a makeup bag, a jewelry bag, or a moneybag )) Perhaps sequined, leather, or canvas. I hope I'm not a sandbag.
Whatever kind I am, since I am an old one, I surely must have some wrinkles showing.

 

[miggles]

You aren't a bag at all, Prom. Who called you an old bag? I'm expecting any day now to hear it from somebody. Like, "Look at that old bag shopping in the junior department!"

The music shop was next to Penney's so I went in. I was looking for an old Mills Brothers CD called "The Best of the Mills Brothers." All I found was their greatest hits CD but it didn't have the song I wanted, Java Jive. (It's about coffee and tea, folks! It would be a great theme song for us! ) Anyway, I didn't have my glasses and the print was so small on the CD so I asked the young man who worked there if he had a magnifying glass. He said no but he'd read the songs off to me. There must have been a million of them. Anyway, he started reading them out loud with folks in earshot. It was fine until he got to the mushy tunes:

"You Always Hurt the One You Love"
"I Love You So Much It Hurts"
"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"
"Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)"
"Be My Life's Companion"
"Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)"



It sounded like he was saying those words to me, ya know? He stopped and said that there are too many songs to read off and darted off to find a magnifying glass or anything that the old lady can use. He came back empty handed and was going to resume reading but I felt sorry for him and said there's really only one song I'm interested in and that's Java Jive. So he looked for Java Jive and didn't see it.

All that for nothing.

I wound up buying a CD of hymns by them instead.

 

[MotherOfPromise]

Lol, Migs.

Next time I go to buy a cd I'm leaving my glasses at home.

 

[keeptrying]

This is the first time I have read through every page on this thread and I can relate to it all. Growing old improves your sense of humor I think and if it doesn't your in trouble.

 

[frogalone]

Wow, Miggles, at least you still fit in junior sizes. Is that normally where you shop? I often place comfort above looks...another sign of aging.

Oh, and I finally relate to the line in the Three Little Pigs, "not my the hair on my chinny-chin-chin".

 

[MotherOfPromise]

We lived out in the country and once a month we had a traveling peddler who came in his truck. It had a general store on the back with the sides opening up to display all sorts of things. We would buy the things we had run out of since the last trip into town. I still remember his name, Mr Feltz. I was still very young at the time, probably preschool.

I remember when school age started with first grade in our state. There was no kindergarten.