Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 8:38 pm

Chit Chat...

Aside from the aches and pains, standing in a grocery store aisle wondering why youre there, bags under your eyes, sagging tits etc.

Are you enjoying becoming older, are you wearing it well emotionally and mentally?

Do you like this time of your life or do you sometimes wish for youth again?

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:40 pm

Growing old sucks.. !! LOL :wah: I'm the oldest person in our office by some 20 years or more. The best thing about that is I'm retiring in 2 years and can't wait. Do I wish I was younger not so much as this time in my life is the most peaceful I have every been.

I enjoy everything more as the reality sets in that time is ticking. Emotionally and mentally I have never been more at easy with myself and everything thing around me. Become old and wise had made very ZEN like .. Physically I have been very luck as far as major illness haven't had any. Body is a bit beaten up from being athletic all my life some aches and pains but that's normally. LIFE IS GOOD, THE ALTERNATIVE NOT SO MUCH. :-6

littleCJelkton · Post by **littleCJelkton** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 10:06 pm

Though I am still young I welcome the idea of getting old considering I could of died before I was the age I was today, being a 22 going on 23 year survivor of cancer being that "survivor of cancer" is not something I hear many my age say either because most my age either don't have it or have died from it already ( 2 of whom I was in the hospital with when i was 5.)

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:30 am

littleCJelkton;1353094 wrote: Though I am still young I welcome the idea of getting old considering I could of died before I was the age I was today, being a 22 going on 23 year survivor of cancer being that "survivor of cancer" is not something I hear many my age say either because most my age either don't have it or have died from it already ( 2 of whom I was in the hospital with when i was 5.)

Your wise beyond your years. I had you down as being as old as the rest of us wrinklies in here. Fantastic to hear that you beat cancer.

As for myself I'd like to think of myself as young at heart. I dont think of myself, for the most part, as old as I am. Physically, my job is getting harder. My bones ache every day. Its a harsh reminder of my real age, when I'm pretending I'm a lot younger. I look forward to retirement but I have no idea when that will be. My small private pensions have been whittled down to almost worthless over the years - I'm certainly not alone in that respect. What I thought would keep me and my wife in modest comfort, looks altogether pitiful nowdays.

C'est la vie as the Norwegians say

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:15 am

My 50th birthday is coming up this June. Only 20 years until middle age. :yh_sigh

I feel great. I'm surrounded by young people who's parents are younger than me, but they fill me with energy. There's one teacher in her late thirties that keeps complaining about how old she is - aches, pains, all that. I stay away from her. I love my life!

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:51 am

My tits actually don't look that bad considering five kids. Other than the weight fluctuation issues I've dealt with as I've aged, I feel great in my 55th year. Photo's are difficult for me to deal with, but they always have been.

CJ, take at least 5,000iu of vitamin d3 every day. FG has been fortunate to have a member (Ted Hutchinson) who has educated many of us on the important benefits of vitamin d levels. I think you know I'm glad you're with us.

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:50 am

I like and enjoy this time of my life despite creaky knees, one of which will be replaced this year, occasional bouts of irritating atrial fib, and monitoring a non lethal blood cancer. I still travel, play sports and enjoy life & best of all, I am on this side of the grass.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:05 am

Lon;1353130 wrote: I like and enjoy this time of my life despite creaky knees, one of which will be replaced this year, occasional bouts of irritating atrial fib, and monitoring a non lethal blood cancer. I still travel, play sports and enjoy life & best of all, I am on this side of the grass.

I would have expected nothing less from you.

littleCJelkton · Post by **littleCJelkton** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:57 am

Ahso!;1353103 wrote: My tits actually don't look that bad considering five kids. Other than the weight fluctuation issues I've dealt with as I've aged, I feel great in my 55th year. Photo's are difficult for me to deal with, but they always have been.

CJ, take at least 5,000iu of vitamin d3 every day. FG has been fortunate to have a member (Ted Hutchinson) who has educated many of us on the important benefits of vitamin d levels. I think you know I'm glad you're with us.

I take a d3 vitamin every morning with the synthyroid I have to take because my Thyroid on my right side was made useless due to the radiation treatments

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:27 pm

I'm much happier complaining about others than about myself. :wah:

I think of my wounds like battle scars and pride myself on being as functional and mobile as I am. The nearer I am to a tragedy I survived the more other people's complaints make me chuckle.

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:47 am

Getting older is traumatic for me. I look in the mirror somedays, and think " Who is this person?" I get up in the morning and do a mental check of pain levels. Shoulders, lower back, neck, elbows, arms, wrists. Now and then I have a pain free day. That makes me very happy. For women, a tough day is when you realize, you have become invisable to the opposite sex. Its a shock at first, but you adjust to it. I always think that I long for a night of disco dancing... like the old days. Problem is that requires being out till the wee hours of the morning, and I usually crash by 9pm. So, the next best thing is " Dancing in your dreams" Less wear and tear on the bod too.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:21 am

I'm not quite invisible yet but even worse, men quickly avert their eyes after they glance at me. It makes me wonder if I'm dripping snot out of my nose or something, I don't think I look that horrifying.

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:07 am

weeder;1353295 wrote: So, the next best thing is " Dancing in your dreams" Less wear and tear on the bod too.My eyes are beginning to fail, I saw that as "less wear and tear on the bed".

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:44 am

SnoozeAgain;1353299 wrote: I'm not quite invisible yet but even worse, men quickly avert their eyes after they glance at me. It makes me wonder if I'm dripping snot out of my nose or something, I don't think I look that horrifying.

Well I don't know. You scrub up quite nicely

once you've blown yer nose

theia · Post by **theia** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:45 am

SnoozeAgain;1353299 wrote: I'm not quite invisible yet but even worse, men quickly avert their eyes after they glance at me. It makes me wonder if I'm dripping snot out of my nose or something, I don't think I look that horrifying.

Being invisible is worse, snooze, I assure you :-5

Good to see you back...and weeder, too :-6

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:58 pm

I hate to waste the figure I finally got in my mid-50s, with a face that probably looks my age. And no one to appreciate it! :wah:

But age has its benefits, except for the thought the years are more limited-but then, you never know when the end is.

I have a grandson. :-4

I can write and go to TKD, and do what I want to, within my schedule.

I still learn new stuff all the time, nothing different about that.

Some limits to age, but not alot. I am lucky, I am in better shape now than 10 years before-but than I have the downside of being a caretaker. Limits stuff alot.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:17 pm

I mostly consider myself as just a face in the crowd. It's true that sometimes I've had to address a crowd but, when I did, I kept in mind that I am one of them too.

Feeling like you are invisible sucks. Sometimes a simple smile, a greeting, or a thanks can mean alot. It does to me.

When I look in a mirror, I see myself as I am. Older, imperfect, human. I like whom I've become. I realize that most of my life is over, but I still plan to enjoy as much of whatever is left as possible.

No matter how routine it is, every day is a gift. Fancy ribbons and pretty paper are not necessary.

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:41 pm

I don't really think I am getting old, until I get up out of bed in the morning, and it takes a cup or two of coffee, and and a bowl of raisin bran, followed by about 800 mg of ibuprofen, before I have the same energy and limberness to tackle the day that I had, say, 30 or so years back.

That and the fact that 48 hour days I use to take in stride now cost me another day to catch up.

And I am losing my patience with a lot of the idiocies I run into every day.

The real topper, though, is looking in the mirror in the morning and wondering what my dad is doing there.

I dunno. IF I had to go back and do all that 'youth' stuff again, I don't think I could.

I am pretty happy with where I am.

I learned this weekend that playing Frisbee with 20 year-old's is a bad idea.

make the 1200 mg of Ibuprofen.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:51 am

A student told me yesterday that I look pretty slim ... I mean, for an old guy ... but you know what I mean, most old people are fat ... oh never mind! :yh_tong2

littleCJelkton · Post by **littleCJelkton** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:48 pm

LarsMac;1353366 wrote:

I learned this weekend that playing Frisbee with 20 year-old's is a bad idea.

make the 1200 mg of Ibuprofen.

You guys make getting old seem very bleak. I at least hope when I am that old I don't have to actually do something like that to know it is a bad Idea.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:26 am

You will, and when you do, you'll remember this thread. :wah:

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:13 pm

I worked out a while ago how not to be invisible. Hang around older men than you . You'll never be invisible even when they toddle you off to the old fogies home.

I think I'm enjoying being older . I like the way people begin to see you not just as a female but one who has a bit of intelligence and .......well well? for some strange reason they suddenly think you wise. lol lol lol lol lol...........suckers. That's what I'm going to enjoy about old age. Spin off any old crap and the younger people will suck it up lol lol lol .

One thing I have noticed though ......I've been waiting on a part time job at a certain place that I'm most qualified for ...and then some. Then I hear yesterday that they have hired a young girl that has 'done' half the town, only knows half the people (which is not good in this particular job because people expect to be greeted on a first name basis) and is dumb as dog ****. But she does like to wave her breasts in your face. Her hiring shows the intentions of the owners of this establishment..... Years ago I would have been hurt by this ...but now with a little more wisdom I understand. Have I been put onto the shelf???? NOPE!!! Just moved on in social demographics

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:35 pm

Accountable;1353373 wrote: A student told me yesterday that I look pretty slim ... I mean, for an old guy ... but you know what I mean, most old people are fat ... oh never mind! :yh_tong2

Ha-students say the funniest things, they think we are all old.