Yet another entry for engtech’s 5 things contest.
- when my body refuses to cooperate
- when I don’t recognise most of the Grammy award winners
- when I can’t remember why I went into the kitchen/bedroom/etc
- when I refer to 25 year olds as ‘kids’
- when I don’t care what my hair looks like or what I’m wearing
How about you?
Tuesday, 13 March 2007 at 1:25 pm
1. when my students ask me “are you x’s Mum?”
2. when a friend from school actually is a Nan
3.when I spend twenty minutes looking for my glasses, which are in my hair
4. when I start talking about working experiences from thirty years ago
5 when I consider a cup of tea and a DVD to be good entertainment a Saturday evening
Tuesday, 13 March 2007 at 2:17 pm
I keep trying to do this list but I lose count after 2. I like your sun
Dragonqueen – I remember doing your No. 3 exactly! It was when I was 25! It has been a long slide downhill for me.
Tuesday, 13 March 2007 at 2:19 pm
1. When I can remember (clearly) things that happened before work colleagues were born.
2. When my nephew became a parent.
3. When losing a stone or so in weight stopped being a case of eating a bit less and exercising a bit more, and became a majpor undertaking.
4. When I buy some new clothes and suddenly realise that they look like something my father might wear.
5. When a good nights sleep has become one where I only wake up once or twice.
Tuesday, 13 March 2007 at 2:23 pm
I love my sun too Archie – thanks for that! *smooch*
Where is your groovy cool email link thingy?
Tuesday, 13 March 2007 at 2:26 pm
I remember the first time I said ‘well, 20 years ago …’ and was referring to myself as an adult. That gave me pause…
Wednesday, 14 March 2007 at 2:13 am
1. When I look at fashions on other women and realise “I could no longer get away with that”
2. When I remember the current fashions the first time around (bat wings and pixie boots anyone?!)
3. When actors and actresses my age are suddenly the mothers and fathers, not the romantic leads anymore
4. Bid Bad Jonny P’s number 3. That has been a real shock!
5. when your comfortable/practical footwear outweighs your ridiculously high and impractical footwear.
Wednesday, 14 March 2007 at 7:34 am
1. When all I crave on a Friday night is sleep.
2. When a tv show set in the time of my childhood is referred to as a ‘period drama’.
3. When I start paying attention to my superannuation fund’s balance.
4. When I realise my childhood books are yellowed with age, just like Dad’s.
5. When I can think of five things that make me feel old, with no particular effort.
Wednesday, 14 March 2007 at 9:49 am
1. when I look for 20 minutes for the pair of glasses lying on the bed in plain sight.
2. when I go to an employement agency
3. when I lost my train of thought two words into my sentence.
4. when I look at all the fashions and remember how long ago I through those styles out as old-fashioned (everything old is new again…)
5. When just going down to get the mail means I have to work up the energy.
Wednesday, 14 March 2007 at 9:50 am
Maybe threw would be better than through? Just so.
Wednesday, 14 March 2007 at 9:54 am
And what about ye olde employement agency?
Wednesday, 14 March 2007 at 3:07 pm
Ivan’s No. 5 – Oh yes, I can agree with that one
Thursday, 15 March 2007 at 1:54 am
Re the cool email thingy – it is very US-centric. It won’t allow my .au extension and doesn’t have my ISP
I may have to invent a way of doing it myself 
Thursday, 15 March 2007 at 4:43 pm
1. When I find I forget what I’m doing half way through and don’t finish it.
2.
Tuesday, 20 March 2007 at 8:25 pm
I need to add an extra item to my list.
6. When a junior staff member discovers my age and says, ‘But you look much younger’ – meaning that he does, in fact, think I’m ready for a retirement home. (He’s 22. G’rrr.)
Wednesday, 21 March 2007 at 11:13 am
Youth is a very curable condition. It’s only temporary affecting you, luckily.
Wednesday, 21 March 2007 at 11:23 am
I know … I often get “but you don’t look 50!” as if there would be something wrong if I did. In terms of veracity it’s kind of on par with “you’re not fat!”.
Tuesday, 3 April 2007 at 8:27 am
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Tuesday, 3 April 2007 at 8:34 am
Congrats, az!
Tuesday, 3 April 2007 at 10:29 am
Congratulations and envy…
Tuesday, 3 April 2007 at 11:17 am
This is so exciting! And lovely news to wake up to. Seems I have a pleasant decision to make sometime today.
Wednesday, 4 April 2007 at 10:33 am
Congrats, az! Now, don’t spend it all in the same place…oh, right!