Midlife crisis??
Ok, I haven't had much time to post the last little while and with my pile of marking and exam reviews I am currently drowning in I don't have much time to post now... but I will anyway...
I was just chatting with a few students who just dropped in to chat with me on their way home. Two of them were in my first Secondary 1 homeroom in 2003 when I came up here, and are going to be working on their Secondary 5 next year hoping to graduate next June. then another girl, who is hopefully finishing her last credits this year so she can graduate, and who is also pregnant, due in November or so. She mentionned that she is turning twenty soon... and suddenly it dawned on me...
In T-minus two weeks or so, I will be 29... YIKES!!! 29 is one year away from 30 and 30 REALLY sounds old. (No offense to those of you in my faithful readership who are above that and possibly approaching the double of it...) But seriously, age has never bothered me much, but 30... how can I be thirty already!? I feel and I guess I act much younger than thirty most days... Maybe this summer I should get the honest verdict and put myself in a sound-proof glass box on the street like that show on TLC where people tell a host (which could be played by my brother Kenneth) how old they REALLy think I look...
Well, on that note... I had better get going since I realize I am wasting away to the ashes and dust far faster than I had expected... Have a great week!
As per travel this summer, I am leaving June 23rd to Montreal, then visiting friends in Ottawa until July 6th when I fly back to Halifax. I will be around NS until I fly back on Aug. 14th, so be ready for a coffee or lunch!
PS The pic was from two weeks ago, just before the Wine and Cheese Party, wearing a Frenchies original blouse.
** MAYBE this is more concerning, but after telling a few people about my fears of turning thirty (which by the way at the time did not include less intellectual sharpness, but now does!), I realized that in fact I am only turning 28 this year... YEAH! 30 is still in the far off distance... Hmmm, but what does that mean about my sharp mental skills I wonder???** (This section was appended after the post was first published)
posted by Gillian at
11:32:00 AM
4 Comments:
Oh Gee! I can remember very clearly when I turned 30 (even though it was 32 years ago). I had a major crisis. I suddenly realized that I was no longer in my 'twenties' and that I was supposed to be all grown up!!! I totally freaked out.
However, that was the only traumatic birthday I've had.
I loved turning forty! Forty is the best.
I was happy to turn fifty, cause I didn't think I'd make it that far.
And then...wow...all of a sudden I'm sixty...and so thankful to still be waking up every morning!! Hehehehe.
Now, I'm 62..and every morning when I wake up..I'm sort of surprised.
So take it from me..it's alright to be traumatized at 30..it's an awakening...and you will survive it.
Take care...
Love, Marsha
P.S. Where are all the bloggers?
HI G!!!
You have lost soooo much weight....Can't wait for lucnhes with you and Nannan!!!
I walked with Nanna tonight....we hadc a wonderful time!!! I Love her so much!!
love you too....calll when you're in the area!!! xpxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Ya, I didn't really like turning 30 this past January. Especially since I was still in school, technically. I've heard it gets better though... It's apparently like a trough, life is great until 25, then you are constantly reminded that 30 is around the corner so it's a downer each year, and then you hit 30. You bottom out there for a year, then 31 comes and you realize 30 was alright. Then it's always uphill because you're just happy to be alive!! And then you eventually forget everything with dimentia and die happy!! Yippee!!!
Thanks for these words from the "OTHER SIDE"... hehehe! I appreciate knowing that it is not all THAT bad! haha!
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