Oh, woe is me...

Tomorrow I hit 36. That age I always told myself I would "never be". LOL! And even worse I see that I am the old nerd I always said I would not be. My mom even laughs at me. *pouts*

My hearing is pretty bad already, I thought the lady at Mcdonald's said "Pull up" but she said "ketchup" and had to chase me down to give me my food. My kids howled.

My sight is worse, but it was never that great anyway. Now I wear my glasses though cause I'm more concerned with seeing than being seen. Age difference again.

The older I get the more and louder I fart. By 40 I should be able to blow hubby away. Maybe we will have to have a contest.

I have a hair sticking out of my chin. It's GRAY!

I can do the bump all by myself these days, and I don't have to move alot either. It's residual motion. Yep.

Oh, woe, woe is me!

36 is NOT old!!!!!!!!!!! Stay healthy, exercise and eat right.

OH my dear!! To be 36 AGAIN!! I lack 2 years being double your age...but I see by your funny post that you will catch up with me in a few years...LOL Jo

(I refer to my "Menapausal chin"...but someone remarked that they were stray eyebrows.)

Thank you, Tammy, for giving me a healthy and loud laughter! Never loose your sense of humor!

ROFLOL, Thanks for brightening my day, Tammy. I needed a good laugh. Of course you are not Old at 36. I would give anything to be your age again. I am 20 years older than you and I don't know if I have ever felt as down as you sound now! CaptMicha is right, exercise, eat right and visit you doctor regularly and you'll get old enough to really complain someday. ;D P.S. Try tweezers on those chin hairs.

OH WOE ARE YOU hahaha I am more than twice your age, you got a lot to go through yet, this is just a start, and don't go see that Doctor, that is for when you really get sick, cause if your not already you will be when they get done with ya

You are a babe yet....plus, I think being over 40 is wondeful!

Boy, I remember feeling that way at 36. Of course, my son was 3 and my daughter was well on the way to being born. lol I'd love to be 36 again, just for the joy of having my babies young again. Now they are "old" (teenagers) and think they can boss me around. ;-)

Happy Birthday, Tammy!!!!!

Wonderful post TammyTN !! ... LOL .. Gal, it sounds to me, more like you are truly lookin' forward to turning another year .. shall I dare say .. older. It just simply means that you've got more experience under your belt, and a whole hefty bunch more knowledge acquired .. along the way.

Besides, takin' a look back at where we've been, how far we've come, and some of the journeys, paths, and routes we've taken .. whether intentionally, or for reasons we can't explain .. usually serves well to remind us, to keep lookin' up and lookin' forward ...

Press on hun ... Life is wonderful, and getting a bit older and far more wiser .. means that we can strut our stuff jes a bit more proudly .. without havin' to do 'the walk' .. like some of us used to think, we 'had' to do. Just may have to learn to 'design' our hurdles, in order to make 'em 'work' fer us .. or, to just simply go around 'em! .. hee

Our bodies are just temporary packaging .. they weren't created to last forever. (Paper does start to wrinklin', crinklin', and makin' more racket with age ya know) .. heeeee

The 'miasma' attacks and your contemplating contests with hubby ... have had me rollin' !!! Could barely get it spit out .. tryin' to read your post to my hubby! ... LOL ..

You make sure you have a most spectacularly happy birthday .. and a most Blessed Thanksgiving!!
Just being here and seeing another one is jes one lil blessing fer ya already ... And, that fantastic sense of humor .. is yet, another one!! .. hee

Ahh, let me jes shut my ol goofy self up ...

H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y Tammy ...

- Magpye

Have a Happy & Blessed Birthday!!

You ain't seen nothing yet...come on and join us way on the other side of forty...it's way more fun...lol


Hugs,
MsC

Thanks you guys. I guess I feel like I may as well have fun with it. Heck, truth be told it seems like each year just gets better. Now if my stuff would stop trying to trick me all would be well! My cleaning sponge keeps trying to hide from me. It climbs into the fridge when I'm not there. That's all I can figure out anyway cause I know *I* didn't put it there! It's in cahoots with the car keys. And there must be some sort of memory loss gas in my house. I get up, go to get something, enter the room and my mind goes blank.



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I'm sitting here laughing and it isn't even 6am yet!! Family will really think I am crazy!!

ps- forget the tweezers - just grab a shaver (quicker)

Ahhhh, Tammy, you've just begun the best part of the journey! Now you can blame everything that goes wrong on your "old" age, instead of whatever younger people blame it on. Forget someones birthday? Old age. Didn't start dinner? Old age. Wore your gardening jeans to the supermarket and ran into the PTA president? Old age. Ate the entire box of Godivas? Old age. Took up two parking spaces at the mall? Old age. It just gets better and better. Have fun!!

Happy Birthday and a yummy thanksgiving. You already got a lot of good advise. Save it all for your scrapbook, it will be a lot of fun in a few years. I keep remembering things my Mom told me about old age and it all was true.

I keep telling my kids, ages 37 and 41, that I do NOT want to hear them whine about being old. Nobody wants to hear someone a whole generation younger doing that, because it just makes me feel WAY older. I still have plans for the future, things to accomplish, civic projects to funnel my energy into. And soon I'll be eligible for social security after working 46 years, so at least something to look forward. Hope I can keep working part-time, too.

My deepest sympathy goes out to you. 36 is indeed an evil and wicked age. No longer a young 20 to 30 you have reached a turning point from which there is no return. At 36 I was finding gray hairs among the dark tresses and crinkle lines at the corners of my mouth and eyes. The kids were growing up and I was stressed out with their problems daily. My career took so much energy that Between home and work I was always tired.

By 46 things seemed to be getting better. The kids were on their own, well sort of, and those stray gray hairs were starting to fill in so they looked more natural and since the rest of my hair was thinning out it was good that they were wirey so that they could support each other. And as the wrinkles deepened the post menopausal chin hairs began to develope a delightful, if not attractive, natural curl.

With the removal of my teeth, I was given a set of dentures that look amazingly real since every sip of tea causes them to yellow. And Bifocal glasses add a new focal point to my face to distract from the laugh lines around my mouth and call more attention to those at the corners of my eyes.

I no longer have the urge to respond to every child that calls out for Mama. But it is amazing how many of us are called Grandma.

The really odd thing is that I too felt old at 36 but now, at 52 I don't think I am old at all....just mature..... Well, sometimes mature.....when I have to be ;~)

LOL.....you are a treasure Zanymuse! I'm 45 but with two teens & am looking sooooo forward to the fifties now!!! ;)

Girl Ive been hitting thirty -six on and off for years now I'm just Jacklyn Benny and stay 39 for ever and ever .

Be glad you only have 1 hair sticking out of your chin and be glad it's gray. I have too many hairs on my chin to count and they are all black and I am only 33! I'm not menopausal yet, so what is my excuse? My tweezers are wearing out so I'm thinking of using DH's shaver! I get a 5 o'clock shadow at 1 o'clock! LOL!

Hope you had a happy birthday Tammy!! :-)

Mendy

Wonderful thread!!!!

My secret theory (no more)- when we are young we are physically "perfect" and generally our eyesight is good. When we are more "mature" our eyesight is worse so we can't tell if that's us in the mirror or our mother (and who invited her?)...so we depend on the beauty of spirit and the glow of the heart to tell if that person is beautiful. I am so happy now...so much more so than when I was 36 or even 46! But....stop already....!!!!

Anyway...at 64 I know, positively, that growing older is NOT for sissies!!!

Man, when I turned 30, I thought someone snatched my body while I was sleeping, and replaced it with someone, or "something", else. It wasn't the body I went to sleep with, that's for sure!!!
I felt like I jumped out of my body, turned upside down, then backwards, then went back into my body, and didn't know what to do with myself. It was awful!!! I've been going through the peri-menopause since my early 20's, and the hormones are not multiplying with age, let me tell you, but I do use Progesterone to help me out with them, and I take herbs and vitamins to help keep me healthy, and not go whacky, although, there are days when this is up-for-discussion.....LOL. Anyway, I try to take care of myself, eating well, and staying active, and I like to live each day, doing what I like doing, and what makes me happy and fulfilled as a person, a wife, a friend.

grayse2 .. LOL .. your body-snatchin' analogy was hilarious.

hee hee .. Some wonderful sentiments have been 'chunked' atcha here Tammy ... Enjoy !! ..

Relish each and every day - profusely ... Chin whiskers, gray hairs, brain short-circuits,
increased flatulence, or not - bask in each additonal day that greets your morning!

Hope your Birt-Turk-Day .. was jes fantabulous !!!

- Magpye

Ladies, you have given me a new strength.

No longer will I wish for the dainty, delicate poots of youth! I am a fully grown woman now and I may as well grab the bull by the horns and...well...outfart him!

I had a great birthday, thank you all for the happy birthday wishes!

Here is a dilema. I am 61 and will be 62 in June so Hurray! I'll get social security but of course, I don't want to be old enough to draw social security.
However, there are some wonderful freedoms to approaching retirement. I am no longer afraid of bosses. I speak to them with more candor than I ever did before. I even scolded one boss who refused to hear any negative feedback. "Well, you can't correct a problem if you refuse to know it's there."
I really DO enjoy the little things, starting each day with a little soft music and gearing up time (usually at DG) before I go to work. That means I have to get up 1/2 hour earlier and boy, is it ever worth it.
I also enjoy yard sales, concerts (some free) at the college, more reading, lots more gardening and volunteer work in my passion (history, so therefore, archives).
I guess you can tell I'm only working part-time. I hope I can keep doing that until I'm at least 70, if my health holds up (knock on wood).

Happy belated Birthday, Betty! If you are half as happy as I was when I had my 36th Birthday you are doing absolutely great. It is the best time of one's life if your devotion to husband and children is bountyful.
The older you get the more you will appreciate being 36 years old, I am now 40 years older than you and the memories of those years give me sustenance for my emotional well being.
Maria