miserable ageing chat - no fuckers welcome

[NoahDear]

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Jajas - the highlight of DH's recent 45th birthday was his discovery that it wasn't his 46th. He'd spent a full year thinking he was already 45 .

Re creams (BTW, I use DS2's Epaderm as a handcream, bloody brilliant, and my hands are covered in it anyway by the time I have finished with him): anybody else out there disappointed in Oil of Olay Regenerist cream? I was so wanting to love it, but I don't. It is just not rich enough, or summat.
Nivea whatever-it's-called was better but I di not like the smell of it .
My hairdresser is about 12 22 and thank goodness for small mercies, v overweight, but has gorgeous alabaster skin incl on her not inconsiderable cleavage, grr!

I'm in, if you'll have me. Will be 41 in a couple of months.

I have no grey hair (natural smug blonde) but have this weird crepey thing going on on my neck. And I keep looking at myself naked in the mirror and thinking FGS, I'm 40, surely I should've got over worrying about slightly saggy boobs/wobbly bum etc etc.

My dad recently sent me an article from SAGA magazine about this 73 year old woman who's just become the oldest woman to gain her black belt in karate. I mentioned it at my next class and was flatly told (by the sensei who's only a couple of years younger than me) 'yeah but you're still a geriatric ha ha ha'. Honestly.

And I've got that eye thing, too, where you have to bring things nearer, then further away, while you wait for your eyes to focus on whatever it is.

Bah.

Hassled I do that, at the beginning of the new year I mentally psyche myself up for the next age, so on Jan 1st of this year I 'became' 39. Wehn my birthday came a few months later, I thought I was forty. In fact, when my mother said to me, 39 years ago today I was on my way to the hospital, I argued with her and said 'you mean forty'.

brain cells obviously imploding as agespots appear.

okay I want to know

how many clothes do you all have

have been reading that thread about all the stuff people are buying for This Season

I don't think I've ever owned that many clothes in my life

Can I join - have lots of grey hair that I dye to what I think used to be my natural colour. Keep thinking about leaving it but as it's incredibly curly and frizzy maybe not.

Have in past few years developed horrible hairs on chin - anyone else suffer or is just me?

Also keep hankering for biker boots and little dresses and have to keep reminding myself that I am now - oh my god - 45 and need to stop dressing like a teenager.

Lol at everyone getting their age wrong. I always have to stop and think before I answer.

Cappy, how many clothes do I own, or how many clothes do I own that fit me??

I think it's high time the goverment instituted a uniform for the over 35's.

Plus a regulation haircut and colour.

And an annual bonus for how many chin/lip/nipple hairs you cultivate.

Ok Gals, get a grip! I know we are supposed to be moaning about ageing here, but the majority of you are still youngsters. 46 here and have struggled with the whole 'I am old , where did it all go stuff', BUT you get through it and then have the 'I am going to buy the biker jacket, leggings, blah blah stuff anyway - can't think of any more trendy stuff cos mind is going. Oh, and all you moaning about grey pubes, wait until they start disappearing! At least you can start saving on the waxing.

I'm 40. No chance that's wrong.

I recently had my hair restyled and apart from the horror that my 'only pluck the eyebrow not currently hidden by fringe' ploy had been exposed, I also had 'ohhhhh now you look like a real mum' from my admiring son.

Disturbingly, I have developed a small area of wrinkly skin under my chin. I think it's called a wattle.

I am 38 next month and was feeling OK about how I am ageing UNTIL
I spent the wekend in Center parcs where everyone under the age of 30 was wearing a bikini and they all looked long haired, lithesome and fabulous
I looked dumpy and frumpy in my one piece was mot depressing
Am now working my way through a pizza to cheer myself up.

Oh god, yes, galletti.

A fanjo like a rotting badger. What a lot to look forward to.

Jajas- actually no I felt surprisingly chipper aout the article! Y'know the way- ooh I feel old but I'm not as old as she is!

Tis only when he starts sending me articles from SAGA about, say, bifocals or those grippy stick things that I shall worry...

I decided today that I won't be buying any clothes this 'season' because they all look so odd. I mean, chunky knee high socks with a mini-skirt (yeah, right, with my knees) and what used to be called pixie boots and a shirt undone down to there with no vest on underneath. I mean, WTF is all that about???

a wattle
I KNOW that if I have my eyebrows shaped everything will be fine
I have one of those deep lines between my eyes[have always had it]but worse now.I would like botox on that bit.When I had my yearly shear[haircut]the 2 year old hairdresser said 'yes it ilooks like it has been there a long time'...I am 40.
i AM AFEARED OF THE WATTLE!

Just keep thinking about the time and money your are saving Arizona And to SFD, get a glam one piece. I gave up one bikinis after seeing photos of myself about five years ago, but have now got a couple of sleek cossies, that I hope look like I have chosen that option rather than saving the world from the white flabby bits

I'm 41 soon, I overdid the spray tan the other day, and I've never had so many compliments . All day in work people kept telling me how glamourous I looked . I was orange what was wrong with these people?

I've fat bits that stick out under my bra.

I have athritis in my finger.

Hotter keep sending me a catalogue.

Off to bed, need my beauty sleep (well, I can hope...)

Thanks for being so funny before bedtime, I am quite cheered up by tales of chin hair, 'taches, crepey eyes and sensible shoes.

Bad cappy - I have a rubbish wardrobe, hilariously so. Dh used to work for Monsoon, so I have a million things with sequins on but no jeans that fit. If my life were one long cocktail party, I'd be laughing. Or rather, I'd try to laugh but then my spanx would dig in and I'd choke.

Anyone else immediately remove hand (and most of rather considerable upper body weight) from under chin at the mention of "wattle"?

I'm, unfortunately, in. 39 and grim.

Hotter, charchar? Hotter is spring-chickenville compared with the Damart catalogues that I get.

And Saga sent something to dh the other day. I think he cried.

Yahhh!