Friday, June 24, 2011

APPARENTLY I AM OLD!!!


I was giving a friend of mine the gears on fb for being old. As I was trying to be witty, it suddenly dawned on me after a quick mental calculation in my brain, that perhaps I am old too or at the very least middle aged! Could I be freaking middle aged?  Instantly I looked down my shirt to see where my girls were hanging.  I have always seen my breasts as a clear indication of my own personal age calculator.  Besides the fact that they have been chopped up and reduced and are perhaps a bit perkier then they would have been had I left them to their own devices, I have however noticed that they may have dropped a bit in the last few years, not a significant amount, but enough to look like paint that has run down the side of the building. Luckily for me, they are still pointing in the right direction.

You know what’s funny? I just don’t feel old. I certainly don’t act old and I have often been accused of being about 7 to 8 years younger in my appearance, which of course I conceitedly revel in. For the most part, people are shocked when I say I am in my 40's. I chalk this up to the fact that I don’t have the almighty blessing of children to stress me out.  My better half and my dog do enough of that for me without kidlets being thrown into the equation.

I know that I am a little wiser, quite a bit more patient but still I admittedly have the persona and mental capacity of a 23 year old.  Not a party mentality, but a “let’s not take life to serious” mentality.  Perhaps that is just my nature. Let’s face it, I enjoy fart wars, water fights and wedgie battles with my better half.  I like walking behind my 60 something year old mom and snapping her bra when she least expects it, giving that fiancee of mine a wet willy when he is deeply engrossed in something on tv, and wrestling my dog until we are both laying there in a heap on the floor panting like fools.

Some may say that I am immature, I just say that I have a youthful heart.  I don’t know how long I have been given to live on this planet.  I do know that we are predestined for some outcome that ends our time here, but whatever mine is, I want to know that I was goofy and that I laughed a lot and that I found joy in the art of being ridiculous.

But until that time or when the directional arrow on my girls starting pointing due south, well then perhaps you can call me old.  Until that moment however, I think I am happy being a 23 year old encased in my 43 year old body.

Have a great weekend.

Cheers
Tracy

22 comments:

  1. I have the opposite problem. When I was in the navy, I was told that I was a 43 year old in the body of a 21 year old. I'm not entirely sure how I should have taken that.

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  2. Enjoy it while you can- its not fun when you realize you're moving faster because its now down hill.

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  3. Nothing wrong with that George, most girls like that in a guy!! and Chris are you saying you are older than me, you cannot be older than me, no way!!!!

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  4. if tits were the tellers of time, i'd be an old maid... i was never one of those bubblegum breasted girls.
    now if 1940's boobs were in style, i'd rock the mic.
    and i too look younger than i am, but i stopped dying my hair in the last 7 months, and have sprinkling of silver to tell that i'm here and have been, for a while.
    i will always be a kid at heart...

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  5. Well, I'm 59 and training for my black belt, so I say you are not old till you start seeing yourself as limited.

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  6. Yeah, Tracy, I'm afraid I got you by a little bit. If my math is right, I was in Mrs. Leaders' Kindergarten a.m. class when you were born. Now, Galen up there's got me, and its true you're only as old as you feel. Unfortunately, I started feeling like an adult about 2 years ago, and I think I'm skipping straight to old age.

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  7. I love what Galen said, and no you're not old, not at 43, because that would make me older....Ever since I've been working out with weights etc. my girls have gone back up, or at least they're not going down, but I've nerve had Jane Mansfield's boobs....

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  8. Have you ever seen the movie The Sweetest Thing with Cameron Diaz? In it she holds her arms down and says, "28", then holds her arms up and says, "22", all showing where are girls are "now" versus "then". I do that, but I go "31, 21, 31, 21 . . . " lol

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  9. I don't feel like I am about to turn 40. I always say I won't turn 40 because Kiddo says that I am officially old at 40. Honeyman, on the other hand feels old and says so repeatedly. I do believe he thinks me odd for not feeling old too.

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  10. Excuse me, you are younger than me. Enough of that old business or I will have to get my walking stick out and teach you a lesson you young whippersnapper.....let me just get out of this rocking chair and find my teeth first....

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  11. You are only as old a you feel. Personally these days I fell like I'm 80! lol

    CBG
    canadianbloggergirl.blogspot.com

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  12. I'm a 43 year old encased in my 64 year old body. Not bad.

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  13. "like paint running down a wall"....that was funny.
    Depite MY age, I think I still have good boobs. Well, not too baad anyway I guess.
    YES YES keep your youthful spirit. Age is a number not a sentence. Live life with sillyness and seriousness. Got to balance it out.

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  14. I'm a bit older than you and my boobs have become the puddles at the bottom of the wall, BUT I still feel young! Followed you over from Laughing my abs off. I like your style!

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  15. I am 48 turning 49 this year and not ashamed to say it I am proud of my age do I look my age maybe I don't know do I look 6 or 7 yrs older then my sisters no I don't think I do in fact I have been told a number of times I look younger then them but then I do not drink, smoke or do drugs and they do all three........

    I came over here from dribbles blog and would love to follow you but can not find the follow button........maybe I am blind I do need glasses for reading.....

    Now feel free to pop over and have a gander at my blog I do have a habit at times of rambling a bit in my comments.

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  16. I forgot to add that you made me go put a bra on as reading this made me look down at my girls and thought I need a bra on.........lol

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  17. I totally agree with this life attitude! Some people also tell me that I am "immature". I don't see what's wrong with staying young at heart. I hope to be like that when I get your age. Keep it up! :)

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  18. Oh, the boobs. When you have to get bras that keep the ladies hiked up when before they just did it themselves, well, that's the beginning! But seeing women kicking ass in their 40's and beyond keeps us all young.

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  19. You guys are hilarious!!!! Thanks for clicking the follow button Laughing Mom and look forward to getting to know you better. Jo-Anne rambling, I will definitely be over to check you out! Cheers!

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  20. hurrah for the youthful heart! i'm with you 100%. Let's be happy happy happy and enjoy the time we have. Worrying causes wrinkles :p

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