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Senior Moments Before I get started I must tell you that "research" shows that reaction times, concentration spans and powers of memory start to decline by the age of 40 onwards. 'Mid-life' is when your memory really starts to go ? the only thing you still retain is water. Senior moments is another term for mental pause. The memory is gone, I can't remember names. Have you ever started to tell a friend a simple fact like "guess who I ran into today?" Then you go on to say his parents used to live on the same street as me, and his sister goes to my church, and we went to a great restaurant in the city, you can't believe how expensive the meals were? now what was I going to tell you! Sound familiar? It is almost like you know what you want to say, but something completely different comes out of your mouth! Or you go to the grocery store for one article. You come out with two bags full and when you get home, you realize that the one thing you went for, you didn't get! And then you look into the mirror and think, "Who is that woman in the mirror? What has happened to my face? Do I ever look like my mother!" If God had to give women wrinkles, He could at least have put them on the soles of her feet! And then there's the problem with gravity? everything is trying to reach the floor! Your butt has dropped and your boobs are slowly sliding down to your waist! Remember in school in about grade 7, we'd do the pencil test? Place a pencil under our boobs to see who could hold it there? The "d" girls would smugly walk off all proud, as the rest of us picked the pencils up off the floor. Well, now I could hold two pencils and lift the coffee table without dropping the suckers! Also your face is beginning to fall! Your eyelids are drooping and the lines in your forehead seem to relax because they also have fallen! And hair is sprouting all over but especially on the face. I picture myself sitting in an old folks home some day, luckily my eyesight will have gone more than it has now because my eyebrows will have grown together and my chin hairs will be swinging every time I move my head! I always enjoyed classical music, but the term longhair now holds a brand new meaning! I think a solution to part of this situation would be to put a dimmer switch on the light in the bathroom. As the hair grows on the face a strange thing happens, the hair on the head begins to fall out? go figure! Remember those cute little sleeveless tops we "used" to wear? Now if we dared to wear such as garment, we'd have to hold our arms close to our sides so that they wouldn't flap! Then there's the: "Is it hot in here or is it just me?" The hot flash comes on so suddenly, you could be sitting in a restaurant enjoying the company of your husband and friends and all of a sudden you would like to just strip off your top. The back of your head is dripping wet and your face has beads of perspiration as you try to sit there acting as if nothing is going on. And then a new game has began in your life called, connect the dots with the age spots! Almost overnight small brown dots appear, right above the middle age spread! Remember though that middle age has leaped to age 60! After all, people are living to be 120! Varicose veins run in the family. We'd like them to run away from home, but they are not going! Then there are the crow's feet, I prefer to call them laugh lines. But most people don't know how to be "old". Next week I'll continue with more "Senior Moments!" Have a good weekend!
