Funny thing about aging -

Awww thank ya Sublime. This is quite a bit different from Oregonlive, but I never figured out how to maneuver around there very well. I had some trouble here at first but it didn't take long for me to get the hang of it. If you have questions, don't be afraid to ask anyone on here or even lil ol' me!

Show me a lady who tells her age, she'll tell you anything:)

Chat: I think I'll get the hang of it.

OL is easy for me because it has a concise list of the "current topics" and responses, lots of paging and go-backing for me here. I don't think OL allows PM's, and I know they don't have avs. OL's chat forums are pretty active too, I don't think I have ever seen chatters here.

OL was having scheduled chats on certain topics. The garden chat was pretty lively, but they don't run it in the winter.

Are there scheduled chats or something like that here?

Hi Sublime,

When I log in, the first thing I check is "View topics you have posted in" in the upper right corner below the Login/Logout link. Then I check "View topics with posts since your last visit" in the upper left corner. That works well for me. I think you already know how to check the Forum Index to find topics you're interested in that might not be listed in the other two links.

As far as chats, the only scheduled chat I know of is the "arts chat" which is on Sundays at 5 p.m. PST. Having a general scheduled chat has been talked about, but has never been implemented. I hope someone gets that going some day.

Here is a link about tomorrow's arts chat. I think sometimes they chat about other things than the subject of the week. You could at least check it out. You never know!

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2656

See ya!
chat

I am pretty proud of my age actually....I don't care what people think of what I do, or if it is not "appropriate". I have lived many experiences and am glad of that because it has made me who I am today. Most people get to their thirties and they are finally comfortable in their skin. You don't have to play games, bullsh!t, or fake who you are to impress others. Most people learn by this age that it really doesn't matter what is on the outside of a person....it is who they are inside as the good ones are there for you when you need them the most.

I celebrated my 11th annual 50th birthday last March.
Life just keeps getting better.

There's nothing funny about aging from this end. Swollen knees, stiff joints, back aches. I look in the mirror and don't know who that is looking back at me.
Considering a little plastic surgery to boost my spirits about it. Never thought I'd ever have a need nor the desire to go under the knife for vanity's sake but I've never had two chins before, either.
Aging? Nothing funny about it.

Ive been considering plastic surgery however its not my spirits I want lifted


I do get humor out of it though..only way to handle life and aging

If we are going to keep living longer and longer, plastic surgery makes lots of sense. I wonder though, could you find a plastic surgeon willing to give you a two for one special on lifting boobs?

Aging Mildred was a 93 year old woman who was
particularly despondent over the recent death of her
husband, Earl.
She decided that she would just kill herself and join
him in death.
Thinking that it would be best to get it over with
quickly, she took out Earl's old Army pistol and made
the decision to shoot herself in the heart, since it
was so badly broken in the first place.
Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become a
vegetable and burden someone, she called her doctor's
office to inquire as to just exactly where the heart
would be on a woman.
The doctor said, "Your heart would be just below your
left breast."
Later that night, Mildred was admitted to the hospital
with a gunshot wound to her knee
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I have a bone to pick with Fate.
Come here and tell me, girlie,
Do you think my mind is maturing late,
Or simply rotted early?



ogden nash





(i don't get the lifting and tucking and adjusting and such.
it just seems silly to me.)

You Can be a Republican, I'm a Genocrat
by Ogden Nash



Oh, "rorty" was a mid-Victorian word
Which meant "fine, splendid, jolly,"
And often to me it has reoccurred
In moments melancholy.
For instance, children, I think it rorty
To be with people over forty.

I can't say which, come eventide,
More tedious I find;
Competing with the juvenile stride,
Or meeting the juvenile mind.
So I think it rorty, yes, and nifty,
To be with people over fifty.

The pidgin talk the youthful use
Bypasses conversation.
I can't believe the code they choose
Is a means of communication.
Oh to be with people over sixty
Despite their tendency to prolixty!

The hours a working parent keeps
Mean less than Latin to them,
Wherefore they disappear in jeeps
Till three and four A.M.
Oh, to be with people you pour a cup for
Instead of people you have to wait up for!

I've tried to read young mumbling lips
Till I've developed a slant-eye,
And my hearing fails at the constant wails
Of, If I can't, why can't I?
Oh, to be beside a septuagenarian,
Silent upon a peak in Darien!

They don't know Hagen from Bobby Jones,
They never heard of Al Smith,
Even Red Grange is beyond their range,
And Dempsey is a myth.
Oh golly, to gabble upon the shoulder
Of someone my own age, or even older!

I'm tired of defining hadn't oughts.
To opposition mulish,
The thoughts of youth are long long thoughts,
And Jingo! Aren't they foolish!
All which is why, in case you've wondered
I'd like a companion aged one hundred.

Being over sixty is kind of hard, but not nearly the disaster I thought it would be. In general, I am more content than at any other age.

So far, I'm finding things better every year.

Diane, you beautiful nun, what a wonderful story!

How are things in Denver? And, when are you coming to Cocoa Beach? We miss you:(

I've found that the worst thing about growing up was finding out that your parents were right-about everything.

Learned that my parents had sex after all.

That's NOT what I was referring to.

Wilso, I know. I was just making a general statement about "my" aging process.

I'm one of those "funny guys" that always tell the truth about my age. I'll be 69 this year.