Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Hatin' Rant


This is how I feel today:
I hate the thought of turning 50.
Hate it hate it hate it, hate that I don’t get a say in it.
I am pissed pissed pissed about getting older.
I hate that I can’t stop it.
I hate that I get junk mail from the AARP.
I hate that I have to wear different clothes, wear my hair different, because I don’t want to look foolish and don’t have the body for it anyway anymore.
I miss my swimsuit body.
I miss my energy.
I hate being welcomed into “the club” of old people. I’m being SUCKED IN – that’s what.
I hate the fact that I am just going to get older, older, older and then die.
I hate having to give a crap about what I eat.
I REFUSE to get a FLU SHOT.
I hate bunions and corns and calluses and cricks in the neck.
I hate this one way street I’m on!
I hate that I care that I ended the last sentence with a preposition!
I’m mad as hell!!
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6 comments:

  1. suzanne, the oldest, dang it!!!January 26, 2010 at 5:20 PM

    our options are very narrow, sweetie. but, i empathize.

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  2. sue, the old oneJanuary 26, 2010 at 5:24 PM

    this may or may not help, or enlighten, or anything. quote from an 87 year old emily whaley, of charleston, s.c...."a warning: life is full of decisions and you better not waver and quaver over each one or you will stress yourself. You will die young and miss your seventies and eighties, which are two decades that can be a delight."

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  3. michieJanuary 26, 2010 at 9:19 PM

    Yeah, that's what I'm talkin' 'bout! Hissie fit! Well, you've already done some bargaining and for awhile there it seemed you were moving toward acceptance, but you have done gone and slid all the way back to step 2, anger. Let's see: denial, anger, bargaining...isn't there something else before acceptance? Oh, gosh, are you gonna stop at anger and be pissed for a decade?

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  4. LLJanuary 27, 2010 at 8:22 AM

    i refuse to do these "stages" in any sensible order. i refuse i tell you!!

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  5. LLJanuary 27, 2010 at 8:27 AM

    depending on your source, i still have guilt and depression. i don' think guilt applies in the traditional way in this case, and as for depression, i think i have that one covered

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  6. SimoneJanuary 28, 2010 at 11:08 PM

    I love your hatin' rant. I love the pic of Madeline Kahn.

    To heck with doing the stages in order. To heck with the normal "stages." Make up your own! Incivility! Indignation! Insomnia! Mania! Flamenco dancing! Tree-climbing! Bird-calling!Chandelier-swinging!

    I guess right now you're in the Showering stage.

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