Random Thought About Growing Old

We often think hair grows gradually.  I found out, it grows in spurts.

We often think we would grow old gradually.  Not so.  We grow old overnight.  The day I turned 40 was the day I realized I had to take my glasses off to read, that I had a paunch that runneth over the top of my jeans, that my jawline has lost the cutlass definition that it used to have. It gets worse — now add to the list back aches. Weak ankles. Knees that are not as bending. Memory that can’t be summoned. Thoughts that refuse to be censored.  And to think, I am young-old, and not yet old-old.  What’s it going to be like when I am really old. Hmmmm….

Age has taught me that what other people think of me is none of my business.
― Jane Tara, The Happy Endings Book Club

Lost In Translation, Yet Again

Once in a while the strangest blonde moment creeps up — no offense to the blondes, just using it as a cliche — that truly embarrasses me. We were driving along the dusty backroads of the French countryside (Normandie!) when the Hubby looks skywards sharply, points a finger, and says “Hawk!”.

Me (puzzled and looking up): PORK?  (I swear I heard him say “Pawk”, as in the British pronunciation for “Pork”)

Hubby (even more puzzled): HAWK! Big bird. Hawk!

Me (realizing the absurdity of a high-flying piece of meat, and trying to be cool about the sudden drop of IQ): Oh, HAWK, right. ok.

Hubby: Pork?  Why would I say “Pork”?  I was pointing at the sky….

Me: I don’t know.  That’s what I thought I heard.  But hey, you never know. You know what they say —  “when pigs fly….”

Nonstop shaking of head and laughing between us. You’d think by now these lost-in-translation moments would long have banished.  Oy vey.

Wall Art in Nottingham, UK

Fine Print

This year, I’ve added a new tab/page onto my blog which I headered (apologies, I know there is no such a word) “Better in Pictures“.  With all the travelling that I do, and the few more planned for this year (pure vacay travel for a change woo hoo!), I hope this turns out to be an interesting documentary of the places I will go and the curiosities I find.  :)