One day I looked in the mirror and there was a wrinkled old lady looking back...and I used to think nothing of wearing sleeveless frocks but now I have sort of baggy bits on my arms so if it doesn't have sleeves, I don't wear it.
And I have a pot belly...not a big pot belly...just a smallish one. That needs covering up as well...we won't go into the gruesome details about stretch marks...you might be reading this before you've had your supper.
Then there are the legs...best skate quickly over them as well 'cos they aren't nice...not nice at all. The oddest thing is they don't need shaving now...except for the few, very long, jet black hairs which grow at an alarming rate on my shins...
And as I'm being so frank I might as well tell you I have a moustache...that appeared overnight...it did honest to god. One day it was there...and that's black as well.
But my eyebrows are grey...grey eyebrows speckled with the odd white hair is not a good look...applying eyebrow pencil when I can only see properly with specs on and in a good light and if my hands aren't shaking, just makes me look even more weird actually. One looks reasonable and I think it'll pass muster but the other one goes sort of wonky and peculiar and I wonder about being fashionable for once in my life and just shave them off...
And my clothes. I did once have an enthusiastic lady in our local charity shop take me in hand...she produced frocks and skirts and neatly fitted jackets and I thought I looked like a dogs dinner and she said it was because I was so used to baggy clothes and I said but I like baggy clothes 'cos they are comfy and don't dig in and make me itch and anything a little bit fitted makes me imagine I can't breathe...
She gave me up as a lost cause in the end.
It was the losing weight which really made me gob-smacked...never been big in the first place and after that episode a year ago the weight simply dropped off in leaps and bounds and being downright skinny and having baggy bits is much worse than being a bit bigger with baggy bits.
In the general scheme of things no-one gives a hoot as to whether you have wonky eyebrows or dress in baggy cotton trousers with leggings underneath and layers of baggy tops...on top. It shows you've lived a life if you have wrinkles and a bit of a belly...
And if people don't care for the way I am, then they can go and boil their heads!
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well I am male but I used to wear baggy clothes to hide my 95 kilo body in the summer weight just dropped of me and still is as for facial hair mine only appears if I don't shave but I am one of the lucky ones I have very little body hair
Well Vashti , you just confirmed there is a club of us with similar problems besides our lungs, but hey were not past it yet can still live, have a joke and accept ourselves with all our quirks don't have to please others only ourselves.Keep those daily reflections coming. The consultant today just suggested it's age related which did not amuse me at all he wont win friends with that type of comment.
O Vashti you sound like me with the long sleeves and baggy tops! still we can't all be like Madonna, and who really wants to be, just remember you are a perfect being just as you are! loved reading your post,more musings please! huff xxx
I went on holidays a few weeks ago but before I went I decided a bit of work was needed. So off I went to the hairdresser had a new cut colour and highlights. Next to the beauticians so first nails hands and feet painted with the magic 3 week nail polish followed by eye brow shape and tint also eye lash tint. Next all unnecessary facial hair removed. To finish off it was in to the tanning area for a full body spray tan ( coughed for 1/2 an hour after that ). Two days later i was sitting in the wonderful sun a new woman. I'm back three weeks now and at last I can recognise myself when I look in the mirror. Everything's faded and gone except the extra holiday weight. Lol
Year - I do so agree. My daughter calls my upper arms my 'bat wings'! But - there is always a silver lining, now my eyesight is going I cannot see all the faults.
Emmo, down here in deepest Wales they call them "Bingo Wings" - when the hearing starts going you won't hear the kids' rude remarks either - see, there's an upside to everything. Except when your "perky bits" degenerate into looking like spaniel's ears - that's depressing and calls for massive outlay. No more Primark bras gals -off you go to Madame Esmeralda's and say goodbye to a lot of cash!
I can relate to most of the above now I'm 50 something and getting showered takes more energy than I have my dressing has to take a back seat so I go for leggings and long jumpers or jeans with a pair of flat slip on shoes or in winter a pair of jeans, jumper and a flat pair of boots.
When I go swimming I put my swim suit on with a jog suit and a pair of crocks it takes me longer to get dressed than I spend in the pool.
Well, I've managed to have crazy lady, wrinkles. . . . make that both crepy skin and lots of wrinkles all rolled into one. I'm mid 50's 120 lbs of WTH appened??
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