I must be getting old when...

[Jolonglegs]

I looked in the mirror this morning and saw my mother looking back at me. Then I noticed a few more wrinkles.
What things to MNs notice that remind them that their getting older?

I've been reading a lot of chick lit recently. A lot of them seem to reminisce back to their university days, dancing to steps and with their Motorola phones. When even nostalgia is younger than me I feel old

When i wake up in the morning and ache when I first walk!

When I see my increasingly crêpe-y skin around my neck and chest.

Yesterday I pulled a tight hood backwards off my head, giving me a brief 'facelift'. Suddenly I recognised the woman in the mirror - she was the 'me' I see in my head, not the one everyone else sees. I hadn't realised how much my face had sagged over the years. Ho hum.

Children that I taught at high school are now grandparents.

I favoured sitting in the garden with a hot chocolate over a trip to town for shopping this afternoon... Getting older is better for my bank balance at least

@socks
Mmm, hot chocolate. I would go with your choice over shopping any day. Don’t like crowds these days. I’m 38.

When I was chatting and having a good laugh with a small group of women at a shared hobby and realised that I was the oldest in the group, some of them were the same age as my kids and that I was chatting and laughing with them on one level but they must have been seeing an 'old lady'. It really pulled me up - the difference between who I am inside and how I look outside.

I was flicking through music channels last night after DH had gone to bed. Only music I liked was on mtv classics.

I also found myself tutting at a

Posted too early....

Also found myself tutting at quite a few of the rap/grime type videos.

My only saving grace is that I'm still young enough to appreciate stormzy.

My only saving grace is that I'm still young enough to appreciate stormzy.

Who is stormzy?

I have spent the last 10 years listening to only the 80s music channels and realised the other day I haven't a clue about any singers/bands that are current.

Wow sleepy blue

When I can see my wrinkles when I’m not wearing my glasses ☹️

I sound like my mother
I can see my mother in the mirror
I'm getting grey hairs
My face is dryer and not youthfully bouncy like before when I thought it looked fat
I don't understand my daughter's generation, or comprehend what they are saying
Music is dead - it's unpleasant noise
The mere thought of getting ready to go out pisses me off

That fashion really does repeat itself

Yy to the fashions repeating- Dniece bought a head band yesterday and it looks just like the ones I wore at secondary school circa 1991!

Conversely I was looking for a lipstick and thinking I wonder if rimmel have a back stock of heather shimmer!

When it takes a lot longer to get up out of an armchair than it does to sit down in it

There's also that time when "Do you fancy a drink?" becomes "Shall we have a nice cup of tea?".

When you realise that you have several more cardigans than you thought you had.

I have no tolerance for stupidity of any sort. None.

I give no shits whatsoever about what I wear, or, generally, what people think of me.

But the biggest giveaway for me is the grey hair. I hate it. I dye it, but then it’s back and there’s more of it. That and the fact I hobble if I’ve been sitting down for a while.

I’m 40. It’s not looking good.

Lately, I have found myself rummaging through my handbag when I'm looking for something, I seem to find it quite difficult to locate stuff I know is in there somewhere.
Then I remember that my mother used to rummage in her handbag all the time and it really used to piss me off.
Now I understand why she did it.

They bought back Nokia bricks, dumb phones, heather shimmer, big headphones, all things I remember first time round.

It's only a matter of time before ragging walls and pine come back.

I've just started to listen to Desert Island Discs on my phone and I've really enjoyed the ones I've listened to so far.

So many of the above,

looking and sounding like my mother
school friends who are grandmothers
dyeing grey hair
hating/being irritated by 90% of the adverts on telly
taking half an hour to get up if ive been sitting on the floor

just remembered

being rubbish at console games (or video games as we used to call them in the olden days , i remember being frustrated with my mum cos she was so slow and rubbish at them, now i know how my dc feel when i try to play minecraft or fortnite etc.

@Orchidflower1 Rimmel still sell Heather Shimmer ☺️

Pete I've been wondering which young pup willl be stealing Jocasta Innes' ideas

...I have to consider if a quirky seat in a trendy office is to low for me to be able to get up from without help.
I am now a year older than MIL was when I met her. At that time I saw her as elderly.