My body is all kinds of fucked up at 43, and I'm definitely not capable of what I was five years ago, but it's going to take a lot longer for me to feel more middle aged than fucked up. A lot longer, note. Not a lot more.
These girls have the most beautiful dresses. And so do I -- how about that?
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Apr 11, 2012 5:43:51 am PDT #372 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Apr 11, 2012 5:48:43 am PDT #373 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
FFS -- I have just about had it with my boss telling me how to act. Not that she's wrong, but she just walked someone into my office unexpectedly and just introduced her by her first name. Who does that?? Eventually she got to the part about who the visitor is and why she was there, but jesus. And it was actually someone I would have loved to talk to (headhunter supposedly hiring the replacement for my counterpart who left last summer), but no, that was not in the cards.
Kat - Apr 11, 2012 5:50:09 am PDT #374 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sparky,Grace takes Singulair. Been on it daily for years. She had a terrible allergic reaction to seasonal allergies this week anyhow. But her issue was skin and not respiratory. I'd rather take skin than respiratory.
Kat - Apr 11, 2012 5:50:51 am PDT #375 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Also, I'm catching up on The Good Wife. I love this show.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 11, 2012 6:18:23 am PDT #376 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think Middle Age started at about 34 for me, that's when I started having health issues that were internal rather than because of falls or running into things.
Fred Pete - Apr 11, 2012 6:23:00 am PDT #377 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'm pushing 50 (hard) and I definitely feel middle aged. Sometimes well beyond. I'm not sure when it started, but I'm definitely there.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 11, 2012 6:35:49 am PDT #378 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm going to be 46 in July and defnitely feeling middle-aged, mostly due to all the aches and pains I get in my legs/feet. When those are feeling OK, I feel like I might not quite be there yet.
And yet? I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up. I've been at the same company for 18 years, been doing variations on the same job since 2000 and I still don't feel like I'm out in the real world yet. People are weird.
Burrell - Apr 11, 2012 6:42:51 am PDT #379 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Happy birthday Owen!
And OK maybe it's just me but I feel like we should be giving middle age a few props as well. My life is comfortable, more comfortable now than when I was in my mid-twenties, and certainly more settled--in a good way. And middle age appears to impact cognition in good ways, not bad.
tommyrot - Apr 11, 2012 6:43:44 am PDT #380 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Every Candidate who claimed to be endorsed by God has dropped out
New York Magazine’s Dan Amira notes that every candidate who proclaimed that God had told them to run for the presidency has lost. Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and finally Rick Santorum all claimed at some point that God had endorsed them, yet they all lost to Mitt Romney.
Gudanov - Apr 11, 2012 6:46:13 am PDT #381 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and finally Rick Santorum all claimed at some point that God had endorsed them, yet they all lost to Mitt Romney.
Clearly, the Mormons are the ones who've gotten it right.
I'm sure that some of Santorum's hardcore supporters are disappointed in having to choose between a Mormon and a Muslim.