1. I'm still recovering from staying up late New Year's Eve.
2. I actually CHOOSE to watch Antiques Roadshow.
3. People used to get me confused with the young women in the ward. That hasn't happened for a really long time.
4. Now I watch the anti-aging commercials intently to see if the product looks real or bogus. I'm considering getting something for my "laugh lines" (who's laughing about them? not me!!)
5. When I open the medicine cabinet at least two or three medications fall out on my head because it is so full. (the acid reflux medicine being one of them)
6. In the afternoon when working on a sewing project or some other project and I turn the t.v. on I admit to watching Matlock reruns ... and liking them.
7. Today's technology is already beyond me ... I can't figure out how to text message - and even worse - like most old people - I have no desire to learn how to do it!!!
8. Last night when my husband asked Giggles how long he thought we had been married Giggles replied "150,000 years". Pretty close.
9. When you look through your closet at your clothes and see a dress that your mom made for you and realize that it is 20 years old!!!! which brings up other issues like why is a 20 year old dress still in your wardrobe? are you saving it for a special occasion? are you saving it because your mom made it?? (I must admit at this point that I'm sick... and by sick I mean I save just about everything. ask my sister. It is by sheer force of will that I send things to the D.I. every few months.... usually everyone else's things hahahaha!!!! hey, I have to make space for my own.)
10. Really, going back to number 4, my face says it all. When I look in the mirror I'm shocked by the face that looks back at me. Who IS this person? What's with all the lines around my eyes??? When did that happen?? Who am I turning into and if this is what I look like at 38 what shocking number of wrinkles will I have at 48? My sisters played a cruel trick on me last year by photoshopping their wrinkles out of the picture and keeping mine in so for a whole year I thought they looked younger than me. What can I say? they are pranksters that way.
But true beauty comes from within right and you are only as young as you feel. crap! I'm in trouble in that case cause I'm tired all the time already... so I'll just keep on watching my Matlock reruns, Antiques Roadshow and popping my reflux meds and Tums and accept the fact that I'm getting older and watch for other tell-tale signs. Perhaps soon I'll start driving with my nose to the steering wheel or needing bifocals. (no offense if you are already doing that)
9 comments:
Let go of the dress, Robin. Let it go. You can do it! Go ahead! You are only as old as you act also. Chew on that one for a while...
hahahaha I just looked at the cover of the magazine my sister mailed me and one of the articles is called "live with what you LOVE - and get rid of the rest" how did she know????
at least you have plently of friends getting OLD along with you!! maybe we should quit laughing? would that help??
I say congrats that you would even have that old of a dress and that you would even fit into it.
Thanks for the laugh. That was funny.
THIS is a laugh out loud funny post!! :D
While you are throwing out the dress add that old jacket of dad's to it as well, either that or get it dry cleaned......I BEG OF YOU!!!!!
The wrinkle prank was pretty funny! hahahahahaha!!!
I'm afraid to clean the Buffalo Jacket. That thing is so old I think the only thing holding it together are the years of dirt. If it is washed I'm sure it will disintegrate. It's still the coolest jacket!
Heee heee.
NOOOOO, not Matlock reruns! My MIL loves that show!
You are so hilariously honest! It got me thinking, what's in my nightstand? A box of tissue-I've developed a chronic runny nose, ear plugs-Jim snores, Halls mentholated cough drops- for when my runny nose goes the other direction! I too am getting old, but other than the runny nose and constant need for a snot rag, I'm okay with it.
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