I'm fucking 50 - how did that happen?

[blueirises]

Just that really. Some of you are already, I know ( Sparklingbrook, Anyfucker). Listening to stuff from my past. Looking at pictures of past conquests. Still feeling like a 17-year-old idiot. No point really. Is it OK?

I was 60 last year. I can't be that old. My DS is 40 so I must be, I've had almost a year to get used to it. 61 coming up soon.
Happy Birthday op
This is a card I was given last year. Very outing but I'm not bothered

What I hate about turning 50 (this April) is that now I'll qualify for all the "over 50" insurance plans. Fuck. Off. 😠

Yes, the hardest bit of my life is not my age but my teenagers! This the is the best argument for having them at 20something! So you can enjoy your 50s!!

I enjoyed my 20s and early 30s. At 50 I'm still going to have two pre-teens, the younger of which will still be a teenager when I turn 60. Eek!

My oldest is getting married this year and that makes me feel really auld!

Happy birthday OP 🍷🥂🍸🎂

Your opening post reassured me, I won’t elaborate other than I’ve been feeling very blue along these lines lately.

From another idiotic not-17-year-old.

50 in 2 weeks. I look in the mirror and wonder where the real me is because it isn't the wrinkly face looking back at me. In my head I'm still in my 20s

I turned that corner a couple of years ago. I still can't get my head round it.

Same here! I’m 50 this year and wonder where my life has gone!! 😳😳

I unwillingly became 50 two weeks ago. Still have my NHS pressie to return, and it is painful clicking that 50-55 age range in forms/surveys.

Other than that the sky hasn't fallen in, yet, happy birthday!! 🎉🎁

61. And it happened because we didn’t die.

Yay!

Life has never been better.

It is ok, it took a few days but what can you do?

The thing that absolutely gets on my tits is the assumption from other similarly aged women is that I want to discuss the menopause, hot flushes and mammograms now “that we are that age”.

I don’t.

I'm 50 very soon. Went to a 50th birthday party, last night. And for the first time, in my life, got called fit. Feckin chuffed

I turn 50 this year. I just feel like by now I should be better at being an adult. I was fucking brilliant at titting about in my 20s. (I'm still good at titting about now...but unfortunately things like work and being a responsible parent gets in the way)

It slightly does my head in that at 50 my eldest will be entering teenagerdom and my youngest is 8.

50 next month! It’s like I’ve swapped places with someone else, an older person.
Having a 50-something DH and friends makes it a bit easier to come to terms with, though.

I'm the oldest in our friendship group and close family and the bastards never let me forget it!

But I still look younger than all of them! 😂😂

This is where having kids young has paid off. My DS will be 30 when I’m 50 and my DD 28 (no grandchildren as of yet!). So I dealt with the teenage years in my 30’s. Would hate to be doing that now! But then I do feel pretty old and knackered! My mind is still young, my body not so much

I'm not believing that I'm 50 in April, either. There's no way that I'm out of my teens!

That's nothing OP. I was 55 in October and I'm still asking myself how the actual fuck did that happen?!

Happy birthday btw! and

DD of 23 confuses me. She was only born yesterday?!

Happy Birthday 🎂

Happy Birthday OP.

Thanks all. Not too bad a day really. Not dwelling on the age thing too much (trying to ignore it today - I'm hungover, Ok?!).
And dd (14) made a beautiful chocolate cake, and I got a huge cheddar truckle with a trier (push in and turn stick of cheese remover thing).
I imagine being 50 will sink in gradually, though I'm putting my fingers in my ears when those Over 50 life plan adverts come on the telly.

Happy birthday 🎁 op ...
life is fun in your fifties 😀

It slightly does my head in that at 50 my eldest will be entering teenagerdom and my youngest is 8.

I'll be the same! I'm older than my mother was when I graduated and I have a 6 year old and she keeps telling me she was the last of her friends to have kids.

But yes, the bloody eyesight (bag glasses, upstairs glasses, locker at work glasses)

I had lens replacement surgery at 50- best money ever spent. Laser is cheaper