Terrifying effects of age !

[Zardoz]

Bear with me, there's a point to this, and of course it's ol'Zardoz, so there will be pictures of girls.....

Feo Y Loco, the band my wife sings backup with has been around about 20 years. Like a lot of local bands, they have had a few changes in the line-up over the years, a couple of drummers, and about a dozen Deconettes, what we call the backup singers.  The band had a show last weekend, and were fortunate to have one of the original Deconettes, Jennifer, come and sit in.  Jen Jen came back into town all the way from Paris France to visit her folks for the holidays.

Now on to the terrifying effects of age...


Here's me and Jen Jen about 1992-93, most likely at a New Year's gig, as I am wearing a suit. (and check out those big 80's glasses!) Jennifer left town shortly after this time to pursue a modeling and singing career in France...

And.....


here we are a few days ago!  17 years later Jen Jen still looks the same, but as you can see, father time has beat me with a stick!

[Noble Dreg]

I feel for you as I too am falling victim to the passage of time.  I have an eyebrow hair, just one of them mind you, that grows at amazing speed.  I am convinced it is trying to join its mutant brother, a similarly affected ear hair.  I fear if they meet in the middle and join up with the one from my nose the world may be in peril from a super mutant hair creature.  If this continues for much longer I may wind up looking like Andy Rooney.   

[Zardoz]

Dreg, I hear that!  I'd look like a character from Dune if I didn't prune the eyebrows regularly!

[Taffy Saltwater]

Aging is not for the weak.  If nothing else, it takes a strong constitution to take that first look in the mirror every morning.

My biggest moan & groan has been the scarcity of eyelashes & brows, thanks to the chemo & aging one/two punch.  I've treated myself to generic Latisse, started a week ago and my eyebrows are already starting to fill in.

Ya duz what ya can.

[RumbaRue]

getting old sucks

But I still appreciate some of the younger guys still trying to make a pass at me. I haven't got the heart to tell them I'm old enough to be their grandma! LOL!

[Lady Nicolette]

I gotta tell ya, NOT getting old sucks way worse.  I've known way too many people who never made it to 50 in my life, some were due to their own difficulties, but most were accidental or tragic because of non-diagnoses of illness. 

Be glad you're here to get old.  Until you truly become unable to care for yourself, enjoy each day as if it were your last, because I'm here to tell you, it could be.  Be happy for every birthday you get!

[Lady Nicolette]

Reminds me...what happened to our "Then and Now," thread?  There are so many new people, I think it could stand resurrection...*goes off to search, diligently avoiding housework*

[Sitara]

getting old sucks

But I still appreciate some of the younger guys still trying to make a pass at me. I haven't got the heart to tell them I'm old enough to be their grandma! LOL!

I got hit on by a 14 year old on facebook last night, he thought I was 16!  I could be his mother!  I guess that's a compliment though, but it was kinda creepy.

[Anna Iram]

I feel for you as I too am falling victim to the passage of time.  I have an eyebrow hair, just one of them mind you, that grows at amazing speed.  I am convinced it is trying to join its mutant brother, a similarly affected ear hair.  I fear if they meet in the middle and join up with the one from my nose the world may be in peril from a super mutant hair creature.  If this continues for much longer I may wind up looking like Andy Rooney.   

LOL!!!ROTFL!!!! Dreg, you kill me.

... and Zardoz, I think you are as handsome as ever, and the kilt gives you ten more points for sexy.

[angusmacinnes]

Hey I have worked really hard for all this gray hair.  Doesnt bother me much I just dont move as fast as I used to.  And yes be happy for each of those birthdays you click off.  Some one very close to me stopped having them this year and it has made me have many new gray hairs. And lad, the girl still looks good but she has put on a couple year too. 

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

My girlfriend had a face peel.  She said it was to get rid of the lines in her face.  Well, I have lines, too.  Crinkle lines by my eyes, and a line on both sides of my mouth.

But I'm going to keep them.  They are laugh lines, and they remind me of all the fun I've enjoyed in my life, and all the blessings I've had.

[Lord Figaro]

Dreg, I hear that!  I'd look like a character from Dune if I didn't prune the eyebrows regularly!

My eyebrows aren't my problem, but for some reason I get these long freaking hairs off my ears. Not in the ear canal oh no, mine grow on the out side edges of my ears WTF is up with that???

[Rapier Half-Wit]

Ok, all of you, just leave me alone. 
It used to be that I had to put on my glasses to see anything further than 6 inches away, now I have to take the #$%ed things off to read. My optomotrist calls it 40'itis. I called him an A'hole. My little girl just turned 18, and the first one of my (4) kids that makes me a grand-father I'm putting my foot in their @$$.

Eye brow hair, ear hair, creaks & groans, you name it, it's starting to edge up on me. But I swear I'm not going quietly. And I'm taking all of you with me.

Bottoms up! 

[Tammy]

I'm only 29, and my YOUNGEST nephew is about to make me a great aunt!! Ugh.



*edited for spelling error.