When did I get this old?
1. Last night, I fell asleep with my glasses on. In bed. How did I know this? I woke up with them on.
2. I fall asleep sitting on the couch. Often. With my mouth open.
3. I seem to eat Tums a lot more often than I used to.
4. I keep turning the television sound up during programs and down during commercials.
5. I spend an inordinate amount of time in conversation with the cats. -- Wait, does that mean I'm old or just nuts?
6. When my husband says, "Wanna go to bed?" I get excited not because of the prospect of sex, but because of the prospect of actually going to sleep.
7. I actually contemplated incorporating prunes or prune juice into my diet. If I have to tell you why, it just makes me feel even older.
8. I have one of those weekly pill cases that have the days of the week on each little module, and even without my daily vitamins, there are more than 3 pills in each cell.
9. I don't ever listen to anything on the car radio, and the CD player in my car has been broken for months and I don't care.
10. I say things in the grocery store like, "If they think I'm going to pay $2.00 for a bunch of broccoli, they are sorely mistaken. That is just ridiculous. I'll go without." Loudly. As if the produce manager, if he is even within earshot, will immediately and shamefacedly run up and whip out his Sharpie and mark it down while admitting he is price-gouging due to Hurricane Katrina.
When did this happen to me? I pride myself on being somewhat with it, and thanks to my job as a high school teacher, I'm pretty much up on the latest trends and slang and whatnot whether I like it or not. And having a seventeen year-old and a twenty year-old at home helps, too. But, I fear it is the inexorable march of Time; I'm 46 and it was bound to start happening sooner or later. The sad fact is this: Youth has an Expiration Date. And mine is apparently up.
No way.
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