getting older and feeling it
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getting older and feeling it
| Wed, 03-12-2008 - 6:10pm |
OK So I found a grey hair. OK two of them. Bf pulled one out yesterday but I found one on my birthday of all days a few months ago. I am 34. I have gained ten pounds over the past year and look older, and have wrinkles!!! HOw can this be happening? I am slightly horrified and yet I think I might still be abel to save myself. So....I joined a gym again. I have been in in great shape before and I also have done bikram yoga all within the past five years so I hope my body remembers this. I have my first training session tomorrow to remind me. Wish me luck. I think it will be slightly embarassing to take the fitness test, admit I have a broken tail bone - you know, the usual.
Now to the wrinkles....mainly around my eyes a bit and on my forehead because I worry and squint a lot. I bought myself some sunglasses. DUH. I also invested in some different skincare that I have been looking at for months. I have good skin for the most part but I havent been really taking care of it. I dont always take off my make up properly ( I know, yuck but I get tired and just cant be bothered) and even though I do use moisturizer, I am not using anti aging stuff regularly. I need a routine. So I got that Clarisonic thing. That whirly brushy thing that looks like the toothbrush but is for your skin. I am psyched to try it. I dont know what anti aging products to look into but I figured I would take it one step at a time. A cleanser comes with the clarisonic and I have a day moisturizer from Olay with SPF and I will use that for now. I am OPEN FOR SUGGESTIONS!!!
I need to feel sexier and younger again. I dont really know when I let myself off the hook over here but I think some of the weight is love weight ( thats what I call it) SYB has gained weight too so we joined the gym together. I have never had a bf that went to the gym with me. I think it will help to do this together. We are also both really good cooks so I think we will be eating in more. The gym is actually walkable from our place and there are stores in between that have fresh fish and produce - really my favorite market, plus bank and pet store, etc. Very convenient.
Is anyone else feeling suddenly older and wrinkly? Misery loves company and all that. It is just rough to realize I am not that cute girl in my twenties anymore. Where did she go??
Now to the wrinkles....mainly around my eyes a bit and on my forehead because I worry and squint a lot. I bought myself some sunglasses. DUH. I also invested in some different skincare that I have been looking at for months. I have good skin for the most part but I havent been really taking care of it. I dont always take off my make up properly ( I know, yuck but I get tired and just cant be bothered) and even though I do use moisturizer, I am not using anti aging stuff regularly. I need a routine. So I got that Clarisonic thing. That whirly brushy thing that looks like the toothbrush but is for your skin. I am psyched to try it. I dont know what anti aging products to look into but I figured I would take it one step at a time. A cleanser comes with the clarisonic and I have a day moisturizer from Olay with SPF and I will use that for now. I am OPEN FOR SUGGESTIONS!!!
I need to feel sexier and younger again. I dont really know when I let myself off the hook over here but I think some of the weight is love weight ( thats what I call it) SYB has gained weight too so we joined the gym together. I have never had a bf that went to the gym with me. I think it will help to do this together. We are also both really good cooks so I think we will be eating in more. The gym is actually walkable from our place and there are stores in between that have fresh fish and produce - really my favorite market, plus bank and pet store, etc. Very convenient.
Is anyone else feeling suddenly older and wrinkly? Misery loves company and all that. It is just rough to realize I am not that cute girl in my twenties anymore. Where did she go??



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I turned 40 in Dec.
CUTE haircut, Shrimps!!!!
I really like it. I love the body/wave/fullness it has. Mine is stick straight.
I know that SYB and I will have to compromise on when for having children because he doesnt want them ideally until he is 30 or so but by then it might be harder on me. I am 34 and he is 26. It worries me sometimes because I know deep down we would both like biological children.....
Shrimpy - I LOVE the new hair cut. How do you like it?
Thanks, Pac-Sun! My hair is stick-straight, too (Typical Asian hair) but I have some wave in it because of what's left of a perm. Plus, she blow-dried it with a roller brush to get some wave/volume in at the roots. It'd still be flat and straight if I left it long the way it was. I almost HAVE to have shorter layers if I want some volume or lift.
~shrimpy, a life-long member of the stick-straight hair club
~shrimpy
"A man who wants something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse." ~Stephen Dolley Jr.
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Thanks, Rose! I'm still adjusting to it, too... but I do like it! I love how it's springy now, instead of just hanging there. I love my hair long... but I don't like how it just hangs and sits when it's long. I love the springy feeling... just in time for Spring! lol
Don't wait til later to cut your hair if you want! Just go get it cut! Be daring NOW and let the weight part come off on its own time! I'm probably a pound lighter just from getting MINE cut off today! hehe
~shrimpy
~shrimpy
"A man who wants something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse." ~Stephen Dolley Jr.
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I almost HAVE to have shorter layers if I want some volume or lift.
Me, too. I have a guy who does my hair and does a good job at layers, but he charges $40 plus tip and I can't afford it enough to really maintain the look. I go like once every 2-3 months instead of once a month or every 6 weeks which would be better.
But he throws in neck massage while I'm in the shampoo chair and that's sooo worth it :o)
Thanks Citi.
I guess I just am SO MAD b/c I have always been "too fertile" in the past, younger years. & i got pg w/ dd the 1st month off the pill. & was thrilled. & i see SO many 40-43 yr olds coming in with "oops" babies, or planned babies, I just didnt ever expect to have an issue w/ my fertility. & the FIFTH baby i delivered to a 23 yr old the other day? ... lets not even go INTO that! Errrr!
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