Archive through March 17, 2001
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Is anyone here getting old?:
Archive through March 17, 2001
Kady99 | Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 07:50 pm  I always thought it would never happen to me but I have received a sign that I am getting old. The sign is "I just can't turn the music up as loud as I used to." I used to be able to turn it up and jam with the best of them and now all I think is turn that racket down. Has anything like this happened to you?? This is scary!!!! |
Merlin | Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 08:00 pm  Is this a cryptic way of sending an employee who has a new CD burner and has been jamming out at work with some new tunes a message to turn down the volume? Born to be wild= born to crank it up. |
Azriel | Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 08:11 pm  ~blinks innocently~ |
Kady99 | Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 08:32 pm  Very funny you two!! I assume that neither of you have any signs of aging. |
Glass | Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 09:23 pm  Kady - I have begun to wave stuff in front of my face in order to "see" it (the dreaded in and out syndrome) - Ack! I have actually purchased a pair of drug store reading glasses that are now perched on my head. What's next a box of Depends and a bottle of Geritol? BTW, my best friend is a heavy metal head banger (at 40) and I still rock! LOL  |
Max | Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 09:29 pm  I've begun to need longer arms. I've been near-sighted since high school and never thought I'd be adjusting the papers AWAY from me to read, but it's happening. Last year, the eye-doc told me it would be about a year before I'd need bifocals. Well, year's up! Time to make an appointment. What a drag!!! I still like loud music, though, so I guess there's hope!  |
Merlin | Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 09:29 pm  Kady, would cruising the retirement homes on the weekends for available women count as a sign of aging? I have to admit that some music is meant to be enjoyed loud, but there is also some that becomes *racket* when it is loud. My sign of getting old is having to use a pair of glasses if I want to read anything that is closer than the length of my arms. |
Azriel | Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 10:04 pm  Max, get Verolux lenses - no ugly lines! Noone can tell you have bifocals on |
Azriel | Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 10:07 pm  Not that I know that much about bifocals... |
Maire | Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 10:30 pm  Well *cough* let's see... I just turned 41, I'm having an identity crisis, I color my hair for obvious reasons, I have a prescription for bi-focals - progressive btw - and I was recently diagnosed with adult onset diabetes... does that make me old? Only if I think it does! |
Noslonna | Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 10:35 pm  Yes I am getting signs of age. I like it. I always wanted to live to be 100. I have 4 gray hairs now (my oldest daughter gave me every one) and I think I have a wrinkle or two from frowning about it... but a couple laugh lines too. The other day Lala, was a tad upset because a store clerk we didn't know asked if we were sisters. The day after we went out for breakfast and she leaned over staring at my face. She blurted out, "you really don't look THAT old" I was pleased and disappointed... I want to grow old and have earned every crinkle I can get. |
Misslibra | Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 11:14 pm  Old?!?! Hell no!! I'm getting younger at least at heart anyway. Nos, what a nice compliment. My Mother is 72, but look like she is about 30 something. When people find out how old she is they can't believe it. I just hope I got all those good genes from her so I will look as well as she does at her age. Maire, you should of dyed your hair blue, or purple and really tripped everyone out ! LOL  |
Lafatme | Friday, March 16, 2001 - 02:30 am  loud music becomes a "racket" when played thru bad speakers. it's usually the distortion of the sound at loud volumes that is irritating. concert levels are much louder than anything you can do at home yet doesn't sound as loud, because the speakers are made for the volume. as one gets older ears become more sensitive to the distortion not really the volume. of course this isn't always the case, but often is. sometimes you really ARE getting old.
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Schoolmarm | Friday, March 16, 2001 - 02:57 am  Gee whiz!! I guess that since I turned 40 a couple of weeks ago that I'm getting a bit "old". Actually, it's my parents that are getting old!! I took them to Broadway to celebrate my birthday, and they had to take their drugstore of prescriptions with them. I'm getting "long arm vision", and the most odd thing is that I wake up at 5 or 6 am every morning without an alarm! Does anyone else do this? I look much younger, but had a jolt the other day.... As you can guess from my screen name, I teach. I had a conference with one of my college juniors about single life in our small college town. I usually check with my students to see if there isn't another single guy I haven't found yet. Well, this girl said "Hmm, but I'm trying to find someone for my Mom" "Oh, how old is she?" "44" I gasped....ohmyGod. It sunk in that I was actually old enough to be my COLLEGE student's mother! WHERE did the time go?? It didn't bother me when I taught elementary school!! Maire, good luck with the diabetes. It runs rampent in my family, and I've avoided it so far. I don't eat sugar and very few carbs to try to avoid it. I figure that it can't hurt to be good to my pancreas while it still functions! |
Norwican | Friday, March 16, 2001 - 06:41 am  I have a couple signs... a few gray hairs appearing, a slight twinge in my knee when it's damp outside. Some of the parents of my son's classmates look like they could be my children LOL. |
Twiggyish | Friday, March 16, 2001 - 06:46 am  Nor, I notice that about other parents..lol Laf, ever hear that BOOM..BOOM..BOOM from car radios? I can always tell when a kid is coming down the road. Now that makes me feel old, I am also complaining about loud music. |
Digilady | Friday, March 16, 2001 - 07:06 am  Old? OLD? I'll never be old. My other name is Peter Pan, I tell ya. I still like to do crazy things... looking forward to sky diving perhaps this summer. Went hang gliding a few years back... THAT was a trip. My 80 year old mom (the one who broke her neck 2 months ago and is in a permanent wheelchair now) is the original Peter Pan. Yesterday she figured out (with a LOT of help) how to roll that wheelchair up to the nurse's desk. She cussed all and sundry en route, and laughed the whole way. The nurses were hysterical and still yapping about it when I got there. Sure, things wear out! But, as long as you're having fun, you'll never be old. Caveat: run a game around here, and watch the grey hairs multiply! <snark> |
Guruchaz | Friday, March 16, 2001 - 07:45 am  We're ALL getting old, but as for "feeling old", then no, not yet. I've had relatives and people I know turn 30, 40, 50, etc and think it's the worst thing. I don't understand it. I always think of a birthday in a positive light and not something that drags me down. |
Rollerboy | Friday, March 16, 2001 - 07:56 am  Personally, I'm not getting old, but I've noticed that everyone around me is. Loud music? Whenever another car pulls up beside me with the monster BOOM BOOM BOOM going on, I just roll down the window down, (unless the top is already down), and yell at the top of my lungs, "MORE BASS". Also, the best defense is a good offense. I just bought a Fender Twin Reverb to play my Strat thru. Neighbors beware. |
Norwican | Friday, March 16, 2001 - 08:05 am  ROFLMAO Rollerboy! I agree Guru and Digi... getting older is not a bad thing. It's all in how you old you feel in your head. BTW, my 8 year old son and 21 year old stepdaughter have to constantly tell me and their Dad to turn down the music! |
Enbwife | Saturday, March 17, 2001 - 07:00 am  OLD? Definitely! I noticed last month that I suddenly have those wrinkles at the side of each of my eyes when I smile... where the hell did they come from??? I went out and bought the L'oreal Line Eraser cream and have been using it faithfully every day, but they're still there!!! It's a sad, sad thing! |
Lancecrossfire | Saturday, March 17, 2001 - 12:09 pm  Rollerboy--are you sure that isn't dementia that you've got?? LOL Time/aging--a great teacher; a horrible beautician. |
Willi | Saturday, March 17, 2001 - 02:17 pm  Lance...Absolutely!
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Nagster | Saturday, March 17, 2001 - 05:42 pm  Having celebrated (well, THAT's a little strong!) my 67th birthday yesterday, I undoubtedly fit the "old" category -- at least chronologically old. For a couple of months prior to my birthday I regularly sit myself down and examine my life in an effort to determine if I am REALLY old. The fact that I live in a subdivision where I'm one of the younger residents brings on this fit of melancholia, if you will. It can be downright depressing at times to see the "wrinklebeasts" (I did NOT coin that term!) shuffle down the street and it takes a short time to convince myself that no, I am NOT old and never WILL be old. Rock music is high on my list of preferences. I've read and enjoyed all the Harry Potter books. Given a choice between hymn-singing and cussing at rotten drivers, guess which one I choose? Now the birthday has passed and so has my period of introspection. Peter Pan Syndrome? Maybe. Early senility? NO WAY, Jose! |
Twiggyish | Saturday, March 17, 2001 - 07:07 pm  I like your attitude Nagster! By the way, Harry Potter is a fav of mine, too. I started reading it for my daughter and got hooked. |
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