This is not a list of resolutions.
I make new resolutions on a daily basis, so that once a year business does not do it for me.
I am in Denial about my age.
I have a false sense of my non existent youth.
Anyway....
Tuesday night we attended a seminar about estate planning. Upon entering the room I was shocked by how old the people were. I thought they should have been planning long before now.
They all seemed to be 70+, with the exception of a few.
As the evening progressed I was more an more annoyed by old people behavior.
Don't get me wrong I love, love ,love old people. I plan on being one myself someday. Maybe setting a record for THE OLDEST. Ask Sarah, she can vouch for me.
Anyway, all the throat clearing, loud whispering, potty breaks were bugging me.
The attorney who was speaking said he had just had a birthday and he was 51.
FIFTY-ONE? Are you kidding me.............I thought he was 60 if he was a day.
I scanned the room and sure enough I began to question my first impression. Maybe there were a few more people my age. I hoped it to not be true.
Surely I do not posses that many facials lines, and I know I was not wearing anything that came close to polyester. I don't carry a hanky and my shoes were not orthopedic. I drove myself there in the fog and darkness and needed no help walking swiftly into the building.
Having said that, let me ask you a question. Why is my brain still 20 but my body, face etc will not cooperate? Why is it when someone calls me ma'am I am a little surprised? When the kid at the grocery asks if I need help out, HELL NO, I put all this stuff in here I'll take it out!!
I order 2 tickets at the theatre and the girl asks"adults"? No Einstein, 2 children. Are you blind? I couldn't help but ask"did you mean senior"? She turned red and mumbled something stupid.
Where am I going with this? I don't know. I forgot.
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About Me
- Pam O.
- I am a true native Idahoan, Born at the old St. Als that used to be downtown. I am 51 and I have been married 32 years to the same man. Gasp...I think I just got a small electrical shock. I have 3 grown kids, and 4 grandbabies.
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LOL Pammers....I am giggling...got one better doll...went to lunch with my mother...aka the wicked witch of the west....for my belated birthday. She did her regular...."you shouldn't wear stripes Janise....you look 20 pounds heavier" routine the minute I took my coat off.(Brin quit laughing) Sitting across from us was a couple of...oh maybe late 40ish old males...in suits and ties having lunch. Well my mother starting talking about how she does not like this and that...and thank Gawd after 55 minutes we had consumed our French Dip sandwiches, "which really we could have split Janise because you don't need all the calories"...(Brindon your still laughing)...so anyway...these men got up and walked out right behind us....and as they went to hold the door for this early 50ish woman and her mother...(Brindon hush ...people can hear you laughing)....the younger of the gentleman said "you ladies have a nice afternoon." I said "thanks...you enjoy it as well"...and as I got into my car my dearly beloved witch of the west mother said to me...."I bet he thought if you took off 90 pounds and dressed differently....you would have been a real hottie." Yeah right Mother Dearest....LOL...just exactly what he was thinking...damn...and I thought he might just have been thinking that younger girl sure looks better than that older one....LOLLOLOLOL So Pammer's.....we all feel OLD somedays...and if we do not...one of our realtives just might remind us of how truly oler we look than we really are. (Okay Brindon...you can get up off the floor now...LOLOL
(Huggers to you....you "mature-sexy mama you...LOL)
Jann
"It matters not what others think of us, only what we think of ourselves." (Don't know if I just made that up, or heard it somewhere, hmmm memory loss?, nah..) So, join the crowd, Pamela. Some of us just see ourselves young, and some people are just born old and so they always are. We are still hot, vibrant, intellegent people!
Jann, it's relatives like the "wicked witch of the west", who make me think blood isn't necessarily thicker than water. Attitudes like her's come from a serious lack of self esteem. Therefore, it's necessary to bring down everyone around you. Personally, I think you are gorgeous in sooo many ways!
Rock on, girlfriends!
Kathleen
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