Sign Of Age

I do not concider myself old (though I am touching fifty) but I am showing signs. I look in the mirror each morning and find it harder to find the young girl behind my aging skin. My eye lids seem to be drooping and I have this sagging skin around my jaw. I apply my lipstick and notice my lip have creases and I have hair popping up in places It shouldn’t. I have several age spots on my face that my concealer makeup struggles to cover and wrinkles that are starting to join each other. It’s a fight every morning. Some days I get emotional about it and some days I smile about it. 

One of my biggest struggles is keeping my gray roots covered. About every six weeks I grab a bottle of “Nice and Easy” and hide the silver that’s taking over. It never fails, there is a spot on the side of head that seems to escape the coloring. As I’m fixing my hair it screams at me. “Hazel!!!”

Instead of letting it bother me and instead of trying to hide it. I have decided to let this one go. I’m not fighting it any longer. 

I will have a gray stand in my hair. 

I’m going to just own it. 

Live it up. 

It’s a silver highlight and it’s a small sign of my age. 

I desevere it. It have lived up to it. 

I’m going to see just what it does. But I will continue covering the gray on the rest of my hair. 

My husband said,  “So, your going to be like Frankensteins wife right?” I gritted my teeth and giggled “Why yes I just might “. 

Another sign of age happend at the mall. Twice!

As I was fileing throught a rack of clothes at American Eagle (A store that caters to younger people), I noticed that there was a lot of wide legged pants. I turned to a young associate that was working in that area, “Are the wide leg pants coming back in?” The music was blarring loud and reminding me I do not need a hearing aide right now. He replies “ No we have not gotten any in but we do have MOM JEANS over in the area to your right”. 

Um. Mom jeans? He didn’t understand what I asked but I clearly understood what he thought. I politely smiled and left the store. Just kidding. I gave him a stink eye and walked over to see what the mom jeans looked like first. 

At the same mall, I went into another store that was aimed to the younger generation. “See, I dont feel as old as I may look”. 

I stood in the doorway of the dressing area holding a couple pieces of clothing. I noticed the young dressing room attendant letting young ladies into the dressing areas one by one. I gave her a questionable look. She then asks me, “Im sorry maam, are you waiting on someone?” I looked at her a little crazy and said “No, I would just like to try on some clothes”. She apologized for letting others cut in front of me and unlocked a dressing room. I Left with a pair of jeans that fit just right and they were NOT “mom jeans”.

Now excuse me while I look for my walker. 

Presidents Day

Today is the 3rd Monday in February. This is the day we celebrate Presidents Day.

Presidents Day was established in 1885 in recocgnition of George Washingtons Birthday. Though his birthday is not actually until Februrary 22. The 3rd Monday in February is when it’s clelebrated. I’m thinking it’s because people would rather have a Monday off work than a Thurday. Ya think?

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While im thinking about making a cherry pie, 

enjoy some of these fun President facts you may have never heard before. 

• Did you know there are actually four Presidents born in February? George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, William Harrison and Ronald Ragan. 
• Some call it President’s Day and some call it Presidents’ Day.  
• Andrew Jackson had a parrot that cussed. It was so bad, they had to remove it from his funeral.
• George Bush Sr. vomited on the Prime Minister of Japan.
• Gerald Ford worked as a model in college.
• Theodor Roosevelt watched his mother die of a fever and immedialty ran upstairs to see his wife die of a complicated child birth.
• Jimmy Carter was the first President to be born in a hospital.
• The food in the White House is not free. The president gets a bill.
• Thomas Jefferson was afraid of public speaking. He would often fake a sickness to get out of speaking.
• Geroge Washington was actually red headed.
• James Madison was 5feet 4inches tall and only 100 lbs. This made him the smallest US President.
• Teddy Roosevelt had a tattoo.
• Eight Presidents were left handed. Bush, Clinton, Ford, Garfield, Hoover, Ragan, Truman and Obama.

Aren’t those some interestings finds? 

What are some fun facts about our Presidents that you have found odd, funny or interesting?