I guess I would be considered in the fall season of my life. It's almost as if you have lived different lives during each one of these seasons and now I find myself with time to think about these changes I've lived through and thankfully still living through.
Different times bring changes to our lives, some good, some bad, but for me it has been a great experience and I am now having fun and enjoying each day. Here in the 21st century, my how times have changed. I look at the lifestyles of the young and even the middle age and the older generation and it seems we've all gotten caught up in these new times in some way or another. Women, young girls, men, young boys with rings everywhere but on their fingers. Talk about pain, that has to hurt when some of these rings are put in places seen and unseen. I remember doing self ear piercers years ago and thought I was really tough for squeezing those little rings through my ear lobes. I'd be called a wuss, wimp by todays standards when things are getting squeezed through places I don't even want to think about.
What's up with the tattoos? Years ago only sailors had tattoos but today it is everyone. Why some even have their life history written on their arms, maybe I should do that. Think it would detract from the flabbiness? They are big enough for my life history to be written on, well maybe not that bad.
My daughter-in-law, whom I love dearly even has a couple of tattoos. One she designed herself with initials of my son and two grandsons and has it on the back of her neck. Another place I seem to see tattoos is if your pants are falling off, there is one placed strategically on the backside to catch your eye. You know the old joke about the plumber and the crack, well maybe having a tattoo placed just above the crack would take some of the grossness away. I keep thinking about getting a tattoo as some are really cool but then I think about my age and especially the pain involved. Would it help or hinder in this aging process. How would I be perceived as a 61 year old granny with a tattoo? probably about how I feel seeing an older woman with a cigarette dangling from her mouth. I'm crazy about sunflowers, maybe one on my shoulder? We'll just have to see. I'll keep pondering on this one.
I can't help but laugh at myself when I'm looking in my magnifying mirror and think about rule number one, which is if your older don't every look at yourself in a magnifying mirror, well hell with this eye sight it is the only way I can see my face! Every time I do look in the mirror I see something new sprouting from my chin and my upper lip. My tweezers and my trimmer have become my best friends. I don't ever remember having these black wire hairs when I was younger! and this peach fuzz, shaving weekly has become a must. My husband always laughs when he sees me in front of my mirror with my trimmer fired up and says " you'll be doing it daily soon". Please God, don't do that to me,once a week is enough. I was talking about this awhile back with my sister and we were both saying how now when you see a friend or meet someone around your age, how you are constantly checking for chinny whiskers and mustaches, thinking to yourself, Good Lord, don't they see these things protruding from their face? I guess everyone hasn't become obsessed about this like we have.
I went to WebMD awhile back trying to find out about these "skin tags" I have all over my neck. It said they are generally harmless and can easily be burned off. If I have all these burned off my neck will look like scarface. My wise husband says pull them off, what! Remember how many times I've mentioned the pain factor already? I don't think so. If I quit rubbing my hands over my neck I won't know they are there, only the dark brown ones, which tend to be on the front of my neck, of course and draw attention to the waddle neck. In all my years I never thought I would end up with 2 chins! Now I'm by no means a slim, trim person in fact slightly chunky, notice the word slightly. I guess double chins are not inherited as my mother, who was very heavy, never had one and my dad has always been slim. Having your picture taken with a double chin is a challenge. You always have to look up or if a group picture, having the person standing behind you grab the back of your neck and pull the slack, which can be let's say uncomfortable. I don't want to mention pain too many times.
I have also noticed new words used in this generation in regards to your face or maybe they've always been used and you are just now paying attention to them because they are pertaining to you . One of these words I was telling my sister about was the clown line. Now sis is 5 years younger than me and maybe hasn't reached the point where these terms are important to her yet. She said "the clown line", what is that"? I told her it was a line that goes along the bottom of the face from ear to ear and I guess called clown line because the makeup on clowns generally stops at this line. She looked at me like I was crazy and pointed out she has no clown line. " Well," I said, "give it time, you'll get yours." Another word I heard just the other day was the marionette lines that as we age become more pronounced on each side of our mouth. They run from the outside of your lower nose down to your mouth. While looking in my (magnifying) mirror, I understand why they are called that. Think of the old wooden dummies, like Howdy Doody, and the way the mouth is made to be worked by strings, yea you'll get it. While watching one of my favorite shopping channels recently, I saw a device by a very famous movie star, that will plump up those lines, in fact make your whole face look blown up. I'm not sure if that's the look I want and mine aren't too bad yet.
I hope you'll join me next time when I'll discuss lip lines, I DON'T SMOKE WHY DO I HAVE THEM? more new generations words and sex, yes at 61, I still imbibe occasionally.
Until next time, keep that chin up!
Oldie Goldie
