Category: You’re Middle Age When
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You’re Middle Age When…Searching for Spectacles
You are middle age when… while searching for your reading glasses, you look like a third-base MLB coach giving signals! Tapping pants pockets, your shirt, your head… even your ears, looking for where you left them!
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You’re Middle-Age When…Morning Routine
During the morning routine at the kitchen island, you realize that the decades of kid-related conversation between you and your spouse has been replaced by aging-body questions. The conversation goes something like this… Me: “How is your shoulder this morning?” Husband aggressively grabs shoulder, massaging it, then moves his arm…
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You’re Middle-Age When…Product Reviews
You are highly suspicious of any review starting with, “This review was collected as part of a promotion” or, the latest new wording: “product gifted by (XYZ company)”. The exception: book reviews! But, back to products… If you’re really observant, you’ll notice some reviews contain the “research results”. If you’re…
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You’re Middle-Age When…Heating Pads and High Heels
High heels and wine glasses previously lingering from Friday nights long ago, have been replaced by heating pads and orthopedic footwear… This was my Saturday morning view on the way to the kitchen-from my Friday night of packing boxes (we are selling this big empty nest–another post someday)… I still…
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You’re Middle-Age When…Commercials
You fondly remember the hilarious, super fun, feel-good television commercials of the past. Now? Commercial watching is ruined. Big pharma is one of many reasons to only stream commercial-free tv. Christmas commercials used to be a gentle, snowy, nostalgic-generating 15-30 seconds during a December television show. Super Bowl commercials even…
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Mid-Life Snoring?!
While raising my three children, the mere whisper of “Mama” at 2am bolted me straight up and out of REM sleep. If one of them rumbled a quiet cough, I was awake. My eyes shot open at the sound of someone streaming water from the fridge at 4am. Like most…
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You’re Middle-Age When…Powders and Supplements
The protein powders…supplements…even exercise become more about health, less about appearance! Sure, some products can multi-task, but by mid-life for most people, the primary interests become feeling good and staying healthy. When I tried various vitamins, collagen, etc., in the past, they were more about looking good. Then: Omega-3s for…
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You’re Middle Age When…My Waistline
Your weight is the same that it has been for 10 years, but suddenly you need the next size up in pants!? Stuff shifts, people. There are worse things in life for sure, but it’s a bummer. If you read my previous post, I’m protesting the next size up by…
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You’re Middle Age When…Clothes Shopping
You try something on in a dressing room and don’t bother to look in the mirror until you’ve determined it is comfortable. I took 10 items into a dressing room a few days ago. Whether I put on pants or a top, I immediately did a few yoga stretches, squatted…
Tales from a Mid-Lifer 