Elasticity – I used to have it. My skin used to spring back after it was tugged. Now, it takes a nap and snaps back when it feels like it.
One color hair – Now, there is a lot of another color, that I refuse to name, playing bully all up on my scalp. Not. OK.
Drooping – OK. I’m just gonna leave this one as is.
Body hair – Ladies…If I’m ever unconscious in the hospital and you come to visit me and notice a stray hair somewhere on my face…please pull it out! Please!
Criss-Cross-Applesauce – I can still sit like that, but I do not get up very gracefully or recover from the beating my legs took to bend that way.
You all have read my gripes about aging, a lot. Turning 40 last year was tough. It’s like, beyond middle aged.
Anyhoo…How old are you? Yes. I just asked you that. And what have you noticed most about aging?
I will be 21… in an hour and 20 minutes. I guess I've got a ways to go… but, I have noticed that I can't squat like little kids do. Sometimes I try when I'm coaching swim team to get closer to the water.. but not for very long. I feel like I'm going to fall over… and not to mention it just hurts my ankles. But hey, I'm only 21. I shouldn't complain.
Happy birthday!
SO, how was your birthday?!
When I turned thirty, my dad warned me that it was a Holton tendency to gain ten pounds at every decade mark.
I dismissed it as rubbish, took up running as a hobby, and shaved off 10-15 pounds.
I stopped running after my marathon in 2007, and have gained about 40 pounds since then.
I am hoping that's my four decades' worth right there.
I turn 40 next year.
why does weight have to come with age??!!
Because we stop trying to outrun our parents.
It's probably because they slow down so much by the time we're 40. (Always blame the parents.)
Oh Lord… I feel ancient now
my knees crack every time I squat, I have 5 or 6 grey hairs that repeadtedly insist on attempting to make an appearance and I consistantly evict them when they try to appear.
Sadly, I turn 46 in 2 months… heading over the hill and my brakes are failing….
"I have 5 or 6 grey hairs"
i envy you. i can safely say that im 25 to 30 % grey. if not for hair dye i would like a train wreck.
I am turning 40 this fall and I am excited! I am not excited about the extra hair, which started this year. I looked in a hotel bathroom mirror and saw 3(!) chin hairs practically waving and mocking me. I wonder how long those were there before I noticed.
what makes you excited to turn 40?
I always look forward to new decades…and I love the look on peoples faces when they hear I will be 40, since I have 3 kids under the age of 4. It's like they think I'm beating the odds or something, it's hilarious.
I used to fear the 40's because I thought you had to have a midlife crisis. That was before I realized with eternal life there is no midlife!
I will be 480 months old in June… In months it doesn't sound like I am getting older.
hilarious!
I'm 25. I lack overall excitation that the kids I used to be "in charge of " at my old job who are middle schoolers seemed to display with such bounty. Ha.
isn't it amazing how fast we lose that…
I am 16. Yep only 16 and I am still living up the fact that I can eat junk food and not have to pay for it for a couple more years. Aging has included being taller and not having to worry about gray hairs or bad knees. But I do have to worry about those pesky little zits every once in a while!
you're the same age as my daughter. wow.
and, if you're unfortunate like me, you'll still get to deal with the occasional zit in your 40's.
O_O
44. Not adapting as quickly as I used to with these time changes. Varicose veins (ouch!!) And that nagging thought that I'm not getting any younger, feeling like I've wasted too many years, and wondering how I can reclaim some of them.
i could've written this comment.
so right there with you….
I'm 29.
My number one sign of aging has been a few white hairs. Overnight. I'm gonna be one of those cool old ladies with a random stripe of white hair.
I had so many aches and pains when I was younger though, that I feel better than I used to. I can remember being 22, newly married, working and going to school and coming home with so many aches and pains that I feared aging. Being a stay at home mommy was the best thing I could do for my health… and so far it hasn't all caught up with me yet! Eeeek!
i can tell you're gonna be one of those women who retains a youthful appearance their whole lives. dang. i mean, congratulations!
uuuugh….. I'm not old by any means, but my body would argue against that. I'll be 30 this year (how old do you feel NOW?!). Isn't that crazy?!
It's not so much the number that bothers me, but the way my body feels already and the signs I'm noticing ALREADY….. it's too early!
-call them smile lines if you want, but they sure look a lot like crows feet. Shouldn't we be rewarded for smiling a lot?! ;o)
-facial hair, enough to rival a teenage boy trying to grow a beard. You know it's insane when your husband suggests electrolosis. ;o) Oh yes.
-That whole criss cross thing…. yeah, I laughed at that. My knees KILL ME if they are in the same position too long. I limp a lot if I sit one way for more than 30 minutes. It's ridiculous.
-I don't bounce back after being sick. If I'm sick, it will take me weeks to feel 100% again….. which I rarely see b/c with three kids I'm bound to catch something again. ;o)
-oh, and the best of all…. not being able to eat what I used to without ALSO having to take a pill so my body doesn't act up from too much flavor excitement. That one kills me. LOL
-my memory. My memory is shot….which isn't so much funny as it is worrisome….
I blame all of this on having three kids in quick succession. haha! ;o)
"I'll be 30 this year (how old do you feel NOW?!)"
TIME OUT YOUNG LADY!
Well Im 32…. I'm starting to grey already … grey specks in my beard and a couple grey hairs on my head too.. my dad said he didn't start greying till 40.
gray hair on men is much more appealing than on women. so, no pity here, friend.
37. I wouldn't notice except I sound like a popcorn popper when I walk now. Hard not to notice
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in my head i translated "popcorn popper" to "farting". which, im sure, is also true.
I'm 31. I've been fighting the gray hair "battle" since I was 6 or 7. I know that gray hair is some kind of sign of wisdom, but, I don't like them. I have two or three colors in my hair too, hoping to help hide the gray ones!
since that young? is it hereditary?
My year 4 teacher was completely grey at 18. Scary.
I am 37, when I wake up in the morning I sound like a bowl of rice krispies and it seems like something different hurts every day…I have a few little silver hairs, and my hair is thinning out, which I really don't like because I already have fine hair.
ha! every time i get up something on my person cracks. my kids always ask…was that your hip, mama?!!! yup. get ready to pay for the replacement!
Four years ago, my son then 10, ran over me with his bike. We have a really long driveway and he rode his bike from the back of the driveway gaining lots of speed and could not stop. I was standing at the front of the driveway helping my youngest son into a car to go to a birthday party when I heard from behind me "LOOK OUT MOM!" The next thing I knew I was flying through the air and landed in the grassy area just a few feet from the street. The front tire of his bike hit my right hip and I flew five feet through the air and my back did like an accordion thing. That little accident put me out of order for almost a year with a hip fracture I didn't know I had and it healed wrong. That's one of my "Snap, crackle, and pops" in the morning. My son and I get teased now about bicycles…. I teased him and told him he could do a science fair project on how many mph you have to go to make your mom fly…LOL!
that is terrible and hilarious all at once!!
sorry!
=)
You don't have to be sorry, we think it's pretty funny now. My husband laughed at me when I came into the house all covered in grass and told him what happened. Now it's kinda a joke between my son and I….and I stay on the front porch when he rides his bike now.
i thought you were so much younger than that. you look like you're in your early twenties.
i kinda don't like you now.
ok. thats not true. i love you.
32. How little people actually change.
Somehow when I was younger, I viewed … oh somewhere abouts this age … as ancient, and figured that everyone would be SO different. What’s most amazing is how different people aren’t. Every one of my friends is basically exactly the same person they were “way back when.” I like that.
and you are the wisest 32 year old i've ever had the privilege of knowing.
I'm turning 30 in 5 months. Crap.
I PLANNED my mother's 30th.
And it feels like my body is falling apart. Really. I have never been to the doctor as much as I have this year.
however….I am kinda happy with where everything's at for now. Except for my body falling apart. Not liking that so much.
you planned your mothers 30th? ok. thats crazy. honestly…i loved my 30's! and im convinced that 37 is the perfect age. not too young, not too old. wait…you'll see.
i actually had the thought today that once i turn 41 this year then i will 'technically' be IN my 40's. and for some reason…that made me feel better. guess i've no other choice, eh?
