Archive through March 17, 2001

The ClubHouse: General Discussions - Jan -Apr. 2001: April: Is anyone here getting old?: Archive through March 17, 2001

Kady99

Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 07:50 pm Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

~blinks innocently~

Kady99

Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 08:32 pm Click here to edit this post

Very funny you two!! :) I assume that neither of you have any signs of aging. :) :)

Glass

Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 09:23 pm Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

Max, get Verolux lenses - no ugly lines! Noone can tell you have bifocals on :)

Azriel

Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 10:07 pm Click here to edit this post

Not that I know that much about bifocals...

Maire

Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 10:30 pm Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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.

Schoolmarm

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 02:57 am Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

Lance...Absolutely!

:)

Nagster

Saturday, March 17, 2001 - 05:42 pm Click here to edit this post

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 Click here to edit this post

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.