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Old Age Rages
Oct. 11th, 2008 10:34 pmOld age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. —Maggie Kuhn
Ageing, again
Sep. 10th, 2008 03:15 pmIt is not how old you are, but how you are old. --Marie Dressler
The end of an era.
Feb. 26th, 2008 11:05 pmToday, I got a new dryer. I know, big whoop. And it wasn't even one of those fancy $1300 ones. Almost the cheapest you could get.
But.
The one I replaced, because it quit getting hot, was 21 years old. Older than my oldest child. If you exclude the antique furniture and stuff I inherited from Grandmother, probably the oldest thing I owned And we moved that thing from California to Ohio to Alabama. (They say every time you move furniture or an appliance you age it ten years.) Good machine. Kenmore, I think.
While I was at Lowes, I went ahead and bought the stupid dishwasher I've been putting off buying for a year or more. Not the cheapest, but close. I have a hard time caring about appliances. The boy at Best Buy wanted to sell me that shiny red, fancy dryer. I told him all those buttons scared me. He started telling me all it would do. So I covered up 3/4 of the dial on the cheap one, and said, "Honey, I'm only going to use this cycle -- ever. This one (the cheap 4 cycle one) does more than I need a dryer to do!" He sort of wandered off hoping the crazy lady went quietly.
But.
The one I replaced, because it quit getting hot, was 21 years old. Older than my oldest child. If you exclude the antique furniture and stuff I inherited from Grandmother, probably the oldest thing I owned And we moved that thing from California to Ohio to Alabama. (They say every time you move furniture or an appliance you age it ten years.) Good machine. Kenmore, I think.
While I was at Lowes, I went ahead and bought the stupid dishwasher I've been putting off buying for a year or more. Not the cheapest, but close. I have a hard time caring about appliances. The boy at Best Buy wanted to sell me that shiny red, fancy dryer. I told him all those buttons scared me. He started telling me all it would do. So I covered up 3/4 of the dial on the cheap one, and said, "Honey, I'm only going to use this cycle -- ever. This one (the cheap 4 cycle one) does more than I need a dryer to do!" He sort of wandered off hoping the crazy lady went quietly.
Getting old, I guess
Feb. 8th, 2008 01:53 pmRandom Rant of the day
I'm not quite sure what's going on with this generation and the cell phone thing, but it's like they're afraid to be left alone with their own thoughts for even the length of a bus ride, or a car ride, or the walk from the engineering building to the math building, for crying out loud. Or my (sarcasm here)absolute favorite -- the length of time it takes to pee in a public toilet stall!!
An they have the ring tones up so loud even I can hear them, across a noisy restaurant. And they all SHOUT private stuff into them. I am frequently horrified at the things I am forced to listen to in the checkout.
Okay, now it's out of my system, maybe i won't have to say it to some young person who will roll his or her eyes at the backwards little old lady, always going on about "in my day..."
Because, generally, I love the whole idea of cell phones and their convenience. I feel really excited to have lived from a time where not everyone I knew even had a phone in their house, to where everyone has a phone in their pocket.
It's the whole lack of privacy and solitude I regret.
I'm not quite sure what's going on with this generation and the cell phone thing, but it's like they're afraid to be left alone with their own thoughts for even the length of a bus ride, or a car ride, or the walk from the engineering building to the math building, for crying out loud. Or my (sarcasm here)absolute favorite -- the length of time it takes to pee in a public toilet stall!!
An they have the ring tones up so loud even I can hear them, across a noisy restaurant. And they all SHOUT private stuff into them. I am frequently horrified at the things I am forced to listen to in the checkout.
Okay, now it's out of my system, maybe i won't have to say it to some young person who will roll his or her eyes at the backwards little old lady, always going on about "in my day..."
Because, generally, I love the whole idea of cell phones and their convenience. I feel really excited to have lived from a time where not everyone I knew even had a phone in their house, to where everyone has a phone in their pocket.
It's the whole lack of privacy and solitude I regret.
The Benefits of Alzheimers
Feb. 20th, 2007 07:25 pmAs you get older, your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.
Rules and Exceptions
Feb. 20th, 2006 10:27 amThe young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
