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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Totally Off the Subject
Well this is going to be nothing about politics Its about aging-I know here we go again...I'm not complaining just makin some observations.When I turned 40 I begged my friends not to do the whole "over the hill-lordy, lordy she's turning 40" thing. When I turned 50 I tried to not mention it and my staff stat paged me to the conference room and surprised me with a cake.Then I turned 60-sigh, deep breath, so ok, "what of it." Time goes by, things change, and yeah, I'm a year older. #1I'm still ALIVE. #2 I'm reasonably healthy-a few things but all manageable #3 I'm married to a younger man-Happy Birthday my sweet guy!
I think I was really traumatized by the whole "over the hill" thing. If forty started the down hill slide then where am I at 60? Sure my legs have so many spider veins I look like I have maps of all the tributaries to the Mississippi River. My 18 hour needs to be retired for a 36er. My Grandma's genes have kept my hair brunette with a little help from my good friend L'oreal. I have all my own teeth, minus one that I wiped out permanently on Aunt Lil's peanut brittle. I impress everyone by being able to read the fine print, thanks to Lasik. I can't do the splits or touch the center of my back but then I never have. Thanks to having very oily skin as a teen, good genes (thanks again Grandma)and I never smoked,I don't have too many lines.So taking inventory, I think I'm doing ok on the down hill run.
But there has been one very significant change in my physical attributes that I am very happy about. For 60 years I have had the straightest, no body , limp blah hair.
Baby fine, it would never hold a curl unless I had one of those "curly" perms and then it might have some curl for 4 weeks. The last month I have been noticing something kind of weird. At first I thought it was the way I slept , going to bed with my hair wet one night. It was wavy when I woke up." Cool, I bet that will never happen again," I thought looking in the mirror. I passed on using my hot roller and went out au naturale. Well, its been about a month now and I swear its getting curlier. I love it! I just squinch it with my fingers and viola! Curls, almost ringlets. Hey , this down hill run isn't so bad. Here I come with my new do, packing as much living in 24hours that I can . " Dancing like no one is looking, singing like no
one is listening." Imanging my " downhill" run is a ski jump, launching me into more adventures.
Totally Off the Subject
Well this is going to be nothing about politics Its about aging-I know here we go again...I'm not complaining just makin some observations.When I turned 40 I begged my friends not to do the whole "over the hill-lordy, lordy she's turning 40" thing. When I turned 50 I tried to not mention it and my staff stat paged me to the conference room and surprised me with a cake.Then I turned 60-sigh, deep breath, so ok, "what of it." Time goes by, things change, and yeah, I'm a year older. #1I'm still ALIVE. #2 I'm reasonably healthy-a few things but all manageable #3 I'm married to a younger man-Happy Birthday my sweet guy!
I think I was really traumatized by the whole "over the hill" thing. If forty started the down hill slide then where am I at 60? Sure my legs have so many spider veins I look like I have maps of all the tributaries to the Mississippi River. My 18 hour needs to be retired for a 36er. My Grandma's genes have kept my hair brunette with a little help from my good friend L'oreal. I have all my own teeth, minus one that I wiped out permanently on Aunt Lil's peanut brittle. I impress everyone by being able to read the fine print, thanks to Lasik. I can't do the splits or touch the center of my back but then I never have. Thanks to having very oily skin as a teen, good genes (thanks again Grandma)and I never smoked,I don't have too many lines.So taking inventory, I think I'm doing ok on the down hill run.
But there has been one very significant change in my physical attributes that I am very happy about. For 60 years I have had the straightest, no body , limp blah hair.
Baby fine, it would never hold a curl unless I had one of those "curly" perms and then it might have some curl for 4 weeks. The last month I have been noticing something kind of weird. At first I thought it was the way I slept , going to bed with my hair wet one night. It was wavy when I woke up." Cool, I bet that will never happen again," I thought looking in the mirror. I passed on using my hot roller and went out au naturale. Well, its been about a month now and I swear its getting curlier. I love it! I just squinch it with my fingers and viola! Curls, almost ringlets. Hey , this down hill run isn't so bad. Here I come with my new do, packing as much living in 24hours that I can . " Dancing like no one is looking, singing like no
one is listening." Imanging my " downhill" run is a ski jump, launching me into more adventures.
I've noticed, even with all this hair and body, that gray hair tends to be nearly kinky on my head and very curling so I'm wondering if it is that stuff that L'Oreal keeps brunette for you that might be adding to the wave/curl. Isn't it nice to find something positive about aging since everyone seems to want to dwell on the negative aspects? :)