Another Stinking Reminder Of My Mortality

Can you be more specific?

Mine, a 1973 compilation album by Dolly Parton, titled after the song of the same name

Mine, a song by George and Ira Gershwin

Mine (band), a Swedish musical group

Mine!, a 1994 album released by Trout Fishing in America

Other?

no, mines. they almost blew themselves up once.

I was gonna write something about how you're not really old until...



Then I got depressed.

You know Bear, something like that happen this week that kind of put me in a funk. I saw a photograph of some old high school friends, the "cute" girls, captain of the cheerleading squad, captain of the pom-pom squad, and both of these women have gotten hefty and although they were all dolled up and looked great, still, they've aged and seeing them really bummed me out, remembering when they were tight and taut and prime, grade A tenderonis. I felt the same way about two months ago when I got together with a group of friends back home in Chicago. It just gets to me that we're all middle-age now. We used to be so fine, could stop traffic just strolling down the street.

I'm not aging graciously at all. I want to be better about it, grateful that the alternative hasn't presented itself but I hate this ****.

I'm just killing time until the dirt nap.... hopefully I can work enough to be comfortable.....

dirt nap? What the hell is that?

death

emo.

Oh. The alternative. I was afraid of that.

Yeah, had a couple of those this week:

1.) The refrigerator dude here on A2K. He was freaked out about ice in his fridge, he'd never needed to defrost and didn't seem to be familiar with the concept at all.

2.) Got one of those periodic updates from Classmates.com, checked it out, a recent photo was posted of a guy I went to school with. I recognized him, but man he looked old. He can't be more than 37 or so but he must've had a hard life so far. Lots of lines. Tired eyes.

Get off of this thread little girl. Don't make me come after you.

I have gone through menopause. I can no longer breed, even if I wanted to.
The physiological reason for my existence has ended.

Now I will become wrinkled, break a hip and end up on drugs in a nursing home.

then, ultimately, die.

There bear, feel better?

You poor things..

After one of her many surgeries, my grandmother was having a glass of wine.

When asked if the alchohol might cause a drug interaction she answered, "I hope so."

I went to play tennis the other day after not playing for a couple of years.

I made it through one set, then walked to the corner of the court and puked my guts out....

Sits down next to osso and stares at the others across the room.

Whispers "Look how they've aged. I bet some of them are like 5 or 6... in dog years."

yeah...that refridgerator guy freaked me out too.

never saw ice accumulation in the freezer.

I met someone who didn't know how a manual can opener worked.


whenever I see someone texting, I feel old.
I cannot imagine what I would text someone.

what the hell are they saying to each other?

While painting, I used the phrase "You got chocolate in my peanut butter!". (Someone got their color paint on my color paint...)

Yeah, the one girl I worked with thought it was a "caribou-ism".

I was shocked that she had never seen the Reese's Peanut butter cup commercials in the early 80's....

I tracked one down on youtube and had her watch it.


I'm getting old.

Well, I'm pretty sure it isn't "Bonnie, get me J5829."