I'm Growing Older / So Are You
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Hubby thinks I'm nuts, so may you, but I had to re-paint! (pics)
Comments (38)Here's a glimpse of my 10 y/o son's room. It needs help. After seeing your before and after pictures and actually seeing my uploaded picture, I'm strongly considering painting the slanted walls in his room. We recently replaced his carpet with the hardwood, removed popcorn texture, painted his room, and put up that ceiling fan that "he" picked out. I have not got to the accessorizing part yet, so there is not much to see (except red walls and those slanted walls that now really seem to stick out like a sore thumb). Whenever I get to that point, I will post more pictures. Again I love the color of your son's room, and I hope you will post it again after it is decorated. BTW I don't think you're nuts:)...See MoreIf you are an 'Older Woman' - so what?
Comments (24)Don't have insecurity per se, but definitely feel like I'm headed away from 20 - not as comfortable as I'd like to be with that. It's not because of age; I KNOW I don't want to be 20 again - EVER. But, somehow I keep thinging that the end is near, even if it's 30 years from now. I miss enjoying the things that I did, or could do when I was younger. It's not to say that I sit in a rocking chair all day because I don't - work all day, then sit in the rocker - LOL. But when I'm around younger folks, I really feel different and can't get used to that. When I'm around people my age, they do things that feel like old folks things - that I don't like. Maybe I have a few more years to go before I mellow out some more. But then I'll be OLD!! As far as a relationship, it's harder when you are older. I'm pretty independent because my dad left when I was 12 and my Momd didn't remarry until after I did. So, even if it was difficult, my sister, my Mom and I got it done.. Some guys tell me that they don't know how to take me because of that. So I'm up against that curve too. But, I was also taught that women don't go places alone and all that old fashioned garbage. So I guess I'm not used to getting out so I can meet someone. I'm used to someting so much different - hard to meet someone when you are independent and have old-fashioned values. Plus, the older guys just don't seem to want much - they are just happy with good company. I guess that's the romance that you get when you are older, but it would be nice to have someone wink an eye at you every once in a while too. Oh well - I'll get use to this age at some point....See MoreOlder women and perfume - and I'm moving
Comments (31)Lori, so sorry about the vertigo. I hope some of the advice here helps. I also am sensitive to scents. It tends to go in cycles, getting worse when my immune system is on high alert (meaning my sensitivity ramps up and shortly thereafter I get sick with a cold or flu). When it's bad, it seems like everyone is wearing cologne, even though I know that I'm probably just smelling the same soap or lotion or shampoo that they use every day. I once found myself following a woman on the sidewalk who I could smell from half a block away. It usually shows up as either post-nasal drip (and the subsequent throat-clearing and coughing) or as lightheadedness and an inability to concentrate, depending on the particular chemicals in the scent (I think). For me, it started in graduate school with powder fresh deodorant (my own). After I fainted a couple times in shops like Bath and Body Works, I learned to avoid them. I buy unscented products when I can get them and check the scent of other products (like shampoo) before I buy them. I'm pretty proactive about telling folks who I can't avoid (office mates, other members of my choir) that I have a problem with their lotion (or whatever) and they have been very good about cooperating. It's the strangers or folks I see only occasionally where I get into trouble (and don't feel okay bringing it up). Banning perfumes is on my "queen for a day" list (along with reforming social security and the US income tax system)....See MoreShades; I'm so sad for you about the dog
Comments (15)That sounds like a plan, Chris. The only problem would be if the hollyhocks had any kind of fungus or other disease. I am supposed to be getting rid of yard work. Last year I had a consult ("won" it at a charity event) with a landscape designer. I told her about my limitations, and about what I wanted to do with the yard, to make the side part of the back yard pretty. She said to leave it as it is! She suggested cutting back the hedge between the backyard and the sidewalk on the side street, to let it grow back fuller. She suggested we replace a couple of panels of deteriorating privacy fence at the end of the patio with some dwarf lilacs. I wanted a large evergreen and some bushes in a nice configuration there. She was sticking too much to my "can't do much yard work" and not giving me anything nice for the yard to look improved. It really was a waste of a consult, but the charity was a good cause. We are a typical city corner lot. The house is a square ranch-style house. The back yard is surrounded by trees and hedges. Your hollyhocks will go in a bed near where the side hedge and back hedge meet and along the inside of the side hedge where they will have afternoon sun. There is only a chain link fence between us and the side neighbor. They are a nice couple with adult kids. He speaks a bit of English, she none at all. I think they are Romanian. Nice, family-oriented, quiet people. They have beautiful front flower beds that are tended perfectly. It makes me feel guilty because my front bed is weedy, and messy by design! Our neighbors behind us speak English, but we never see them. Their garage wall faces our back yard and there is a tall wall-o-privet between us. So for a city lot, we have very good privacy. I will miss the height of our side hedge, but the city ordinance says it should only be 4 ft high, and they could come by at any time and tell us to cut it. It is scraggly and see-through at the bottom, anyhow. I am making plans with a guy from Craigslist to come help me do the trimming of the backyard hedges. I will be mostly supervising....See Morelucillle
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