miserable ageing chat - no fuckers welcome

[NoahDear]

only us

It is really foamy like 1970s shampoo but rinses straight out and smells divine.I chose one virtually identical hair colour so no dyed orange look just shiny and young looking.Natural organic it aint !

oh I KNOW hwat i did today.
I scrubbed my hair with shampoo not hapless masaging

made it shinier.
BUT someone gave me a work related compliment and that made me about a size 8.

don't say size 8 on here

Am older than nearly everyone
Pluck hairs from chin daily

Have discovered alarming side effect of age is "middle aged foot spread" whereby my feet are now too big and flat to fit in any shoes other than Birkenstocks in summer and (whisper it softly) Footglove in winter. If this carries on by the time I'm fifty I'll have to buy flippers

borders are (I think) those weird trousers that are really baggy and have a kind of gathered end with a toggle.

Can I join?
I always used to have a waist, but it seems to have gone, almost overnight.

Myla Girl needs to put a vest on, it's chilly here today. Am wearing jeans, converse, white vest and new denim shirt from RI. DD aged 7 says "Oh Mummy you look nice.....

....just like a man"

Will work harder on compliments at work.

Oh yes snice - the feet!! Why did nobody tell me that your feet spread. I knew fingers did but not feet!

It is very depressing having to look for a wider fit.

I think that all shoes have become steadily narrower over the past 5 - 10 years. I used to be a size 5, now wear a size 6.
See, shoes have become smaller.

In an attempt to feel healthier/better I went for a run yesterday (what the HELL was I thinking?!) This morning my legs ache so I am hobbling around like I am 90 for gods sake.....
Someone mentioned quite liking the things in Portfolio range in M&S - I have decided that when I express any liking AT ALL for any item in the Classic range it is time to take me out and shoot me.....

I did an aquarun class yesterday and EVERYTHING ached by 9pm last night......

(old bag emoticon)

Please can I join you all - just had a very knowing (yup me too nods) and enjoyable time reading through this thread.
I'm mentally mid-thirties but physically am feeling every one of my 45 years..
A few examples spring to mind:
Went to a Massive Attack gig on Saturday which I loved, but ooh my plates - couldn't wait to get home and sit down.
This morning as I tried to stand up after adopting my normal 'blow dry and style my hair on the floor sitting in front of the mirror' routine I realised why the dressing table and stool were invented. As I clambered up grabbing the wardrobe my husband commented on my gazelle-like quality...
My ds enquiring what the "menopause" was after spotting an ad on my facebook page - oh how I HATE that age-related advertising!
My teenage dd observing that I looked like a dinner-lady when trying on a frock in Hobbs at the weekend (when I thought I was channeling my Mary-Queen-of-Shops look).
Hey Ho
As to my something new today - I did tighten my bra straps this moring in the hppe that the adjustement would result in perkier bustline. Does that count?

Can i join please.

I still go into Top Shop and places but I keep thinking I catch the girls in there sniggering. And my local department store has CC next to the cafe and i keep catching myself admiring things
I also have a shockingly high number of cardigans.

On the plus side a woman told me today that she thought I looked in my late 30's rather than late 40's - but I suspect she sensed a certain neediness in me.

I can't wear jeans or trousers as I am too short of leg and big of arse so I keep aiming for a sophisticated Catherine Deneuve type thing. But I think I keep arriving at Margot Ledbetter instead.

Margot Ledbetter is fab! Though not necessarily one's style icon....

Oh, but those 70's styles for the more mature lady were maybe a little more forgiving than those around today. Am thinking Margot type dress, with flarey skirt, flarey sleeves and flarey top.

I don't think it is just age that make the feet spread; it is the fecking babies. That and the lack of muscle tone that gives you bunions (cannot believe I am actually on a bunion thread that isn't this one )

I can't wear dresses. And I can't do skinny trousers, though would love to. I'm that sort of fat-arsed triangular shape in which you see young girls in spray on jeans and think 'ah, bless: puppy fat' and in 40+ women you think

Do you think we should ask MNHQ to take down the Myla ad and get Damart to sponsor this thread instead?

Just watching my boys fighting playing with their foamy playswords at the mo is making me sooo tired. I can now see the advantage at having kids early in life and then only doing the pleasant bits with grandkids and leaving young sprightly things get on with feeding/cleaning/disciplining energysapping activities.

My ds is 15 but most of our friends have young children and they get on my nerves!Dp came home the other day with a magic roundabout dvd complete with mini dougal to keep them entertained so that we can eat and talk in peace We are like bloody GRANDPARENTS!!!!!!!

We had our DC's in our early and mid twentys, and I often think, now that they are teenagers, that teenagers really age a parent. I feel acutely aware of our ages cos our teens are young adults.
People who have children later in life - do they feel as old in their late thirties/early forties?? Not sure, but have wondered this a lot lately.

I like cardigans with pockets, so that I can walk around the house and everything I find something small enough which is in the wrong place I can pocket it until it is returned to correct place. It is usually a bit of lego, or some interesting paper bit.
I have bought a couple of merino dresses with pockets from uniqlo, and am sadly excited.

Scared - I am old enough to be a grandmother and most people we know who are the same age as me and dp have grandchildren. However I had my dcs late and I think they have hepled me to feel younger than I am. Im sure I would have felt much much older if I had grandchildren around. I really really dont want to become a grandparent for some years yet!

Well, if I had had DS1 in my 20s, he would have very likely been murdered. He was the baby from hell and only the patience of maturity gave me enough retraint to not throw him out of 3rd floor window . I was almost 37 when I had him.
I am hoping that having young kids will keep my young, not make me feel ancient when they are teenagers, wail! Hmm, altough I will of course be ancient by then, or rather, even more ancient than I am now.
I wonder: could I sell them into White Slavery, get lots of money, have mad midlife crisis trip around the world/hire several gigolos/take up expensive top quality drugs and feel all young and sparkely again?? No, even that sounds really exhausting. I need my bed....

Tis an interesting conundrum (sp?)(esp after quite a lot of wine)!