Wrinkle cream yes....Depends NO!

May 30. 2010

I am having a midlife crisis. At first I wasn't enjoying it at all. However, now I am having fun.


It started about a year ago. I don't know what precipitated it - the feelings came on very suddenly. It began when I realized I was relating with the woman on the wrinkle cream commercial. I had always ignored those commercials before - I didn't think they applied to me ...the mirror is telling me differently.

I will be very depressed when the Depends commericals apply to me - hopefully that will be a while yet.

I also noticed it when I went to see a doctor about a nagging pain in my elbow. In walks this 20-something looking guy who asked me to flex my arm while he evaluated my elbow. He was a kid! Doctors are supposed to be heavy-set and graying on top....you know - OLDER THAN ME!

He seemed very knowledgable though and definitely not bad to look at - hmmm I reconsidered. I thought maybe I could enjoy this 'younger doctor relationship' ..until he gazed into my eyes with his big brown incredibly long eyelashed self and stated "you're not as young as you used to be Mrs. Williams. It may be time to slow down just a bit." Wow just slap what little ego I had left right out of me!

Well that sucks! Here I am in the prime of my life. My kids are somewhat self-sufficient now and I have a little free time on my hands. I am pissed! I don't want to slow down.

I used to laugh at my husband because a couple of years ago he quit jumping out of bed and racing to the bathroom. Now he sits on the edge of the bed for a second then gingerly takes a couple of steps until his body realigns before heading to the shower. Well the joke is on me now as I take a ten minute hot shower every morning encouraging this foreign body I now reside in to function!