Getting Old Gracefully

[Loyal]

Yeah, I'm talkin' to you, ya bunch of old blue hairs!

lol...Yes, this has been percolating in my mind for a few years, as baby-boomers resist the pull of gravity and color out the gray, and get hair plugs, and get dental implants...and...and..and...

Right now I am resisting the need to change the tv channel, advertising CrepeErase. Melissa Gilbert, Laura Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie," is advertising how this product smooths crepe paper looking skin. Maybe it does, or maybe it doesn't, but all I know is the insulting advertising technique of stroking the vanity of the old. A room full of baby-boomer-age women who are dressed in stylish clothes with not a gray hair in the room, gushing over the slightly improved skin with this product.

It's not alone, since there are a multitude of cremes and lotions, etc...that will eliminate the need for plastic surgery (supposedly). The Before and After pictures normally have the wrinkly, saggy skinned old folks frowning (emphasizing the wrinkles), and the After picture with usage of the product, a smiling less wrinkly person emerges (facial muscles are relaxed and less wrinkles).

I am a last year baby boomer (1964), and I am determined to let the hair go gray, and the missing hair remain missing. I'm going to ride out the real teeth as long as I can I'm gonna use lotion when my skin is too dry, and I'll enjoy my jeans and polo's in place of fancy clothing. I am more interested in retaining clarity of thought and following my passions (historical studies and writing about what I learn). I look at my fellow boomers, struggling against looking old. Everyone KNOWS you are old, boomer...Everyone see's the foolish expensive attempt to look like you're 39 and holding...

*steps off soap box, grasping my security Alert button, just in case...

 

[BonifayRam]

Embrace the wrinkles!

Enjoy the fact that you now have more hair on your ears & in your nose than on your head. Refrain cutting the fast growing eyebrow hair & just comb it down into your eyes for the 60's look & feel. Enjoy the fact you can now just go to the Men's dept in Walmart & buy the basketball air dry shorts with elastic waste bands instead of the tailored belt trousers. Not familiar with any blue hair because my is white how can I get the blue?

Trash your old hard leather polished shoes & get you some soft padded athletic shoes 2 sizes too big so you can just slip your feet into them so you do not need to sit down to put your shoes & shocks on. Relish all the senior citizens discounts. When you go to concerts now just for the ADA seats....example wife & I went to Pensacola to see Joe Bonamassa rock the city on my 63rd birthday (which he did very well)! We were asked to volunteer to give our ADA seats to a lady who had just broke her leg a day before & we were awarded seats to right up front where I had conversations with Joe while he was playing:wow:.

I not so sure about the gracefully stuff when your the size of a Jamon Brown but I have arrived

 

[IowaRam]

 

[bubbaramfan]

I'm at.so old, I fart dust. Remedy that.

 

[Farr Be It]

" 'satch you say?"

Yeah, @LoyalRam . Time marches on. Thanks for the post. Battling the ear hair, otherwise I would have heard everything you said. You sumbitch.

 

[LesBaker]

There should be a special award for Merideth for that role.

It was a completely FANTASTIC acting job on his part.

These out takes are the best.......takin' the skin boat to tuna town is classic!!!

I'm at.so old, I fart dust. Remedy that.

You're dehydrated LOL.

 

[LesBaker]

I forgot to add this one..........

 

[IowaRam]

I forgot to add this one..........

Always liked his Hawaiian Island , Ikindawannalayya

 

[Prime Time]

Growing old is a strange experience. The body knows it's old but the mind doesn't.

 

[Force16X]

Growing old is a strange experience. The body knows it's old but the mind doesn't.

the body will quickly remind the mind just how old it is during certain physical activities more easily achieved decades ago. (or while looking for a set of keys just put down minutes ago.)

 

[Prime Time]

the body will quickly remind the mind just how old it is during certain physical activities more easily achieved decades ago. (or while looking for a set of keys just put down minutes ago.)

A few years ago during a bitter winter I was out walking and decided to run up this steep hill as quickly as I could. About halfway up the hill I heard this pop and felt searing pain in the calf muscle of my right leg. I thought I had been shot but the calf muscle had torn.

I walk by that hill about once a week and it sits there laughing at me.

Still, I walk about three miles a day, around 360 days out of the year, but no more running. :rimshot:

 

[-X-]

I ain't goin' out like that. I still hit the gym daily, dye my beard (hair isn't turning grey yet, but the beard goes stone white), and use creams and masks. Nobody - and I mean NOBODY - believes I'm going on 52 when they ask my age, and I aims to keep it that way. Yeah, I'm vain. Deal with it. Now, all that said, stress is the biggest culprit when it comes to aging. I see people my age, that I work with, who can't handle stress well at all, and they look 20 years older than me. Can't let stuff get to you, man. In the end, it's just not worth it.

 

[bluecoconuts]

 

[Loyal]

I ain't goin' out like that. I still hit the gym daily, dye my beard (hair isn't turning grey yet, but the beard goes stone white), and use creams and masks. Nobody - and I mean NOBODY - believes I'm going on 52 when they ask my age, and I aims to keep it that way. Yeah, I'm vain. Deal with it. Now, all that said, stress is the biggest culprit when it comes to aging. I see people my age, that I work with, who can't handle stress well at all, and they look 20 years older than me. Can't let stuff get to you, man. In the end, it's just not worth it.

d@mn, yur fukkin old

 

[Loyal]

Me on Dec. 16th, 2017.:

 

[IowaRam]

Have you started watching The Golden Girls reruns ?

 

[Loyal]

Have you started watching The Golden Girls reruns ?

No, but I watch Friar's Club Roasts with Carson, Berle, and Rickles!

 

[LesBaker]

Yeah, I'm vain

That drives me.

I'm older than you, but no gray yet.

Genetics.

And time in the gym is our friend..........health matters.

Though I had wings last night haha

 

[Mackeyser]

Have you started watching The Golden Girls reruns ?

Hey!

Those lovely ladies put me to bed most nights, I'll have you know! (not kidding)

The whole family knows if they're going to turn off the tv, it has to be before the next Golden Girls intro starts. If I hear the whole song, I'm GONNA watch that next episode.

I watched some tonight. 11pm-2am EST on Hallmark. Frasier from 2-4. I know I'm not gonna get much sleep if I make it through Cheers from 4-5am and am watching I Love Lucy.

I was binging some Sopranos, but with the super weird dreams I've been having, I had to take a break. Wasn't even about people, so... yeah. Back to Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia aka Ma (picture it, Sicily, 1924...)

 

[RamFan503]

Nobody - and I mean NOBODY - believes I'm going on 52

62?