I am too old for this...the 40 plus thread.

to celebrate, I would like you all to know that I think Newt Gingrich has some really good points, and that from now on I intend to pay for everything in spare change, which I will keep in a ziplock bag in my fanny pack.

Happy celebrations, Oilyrags!

Thank you. I disapprove of the music and clothing of teenagers.

Hello dere, midlife crisis.

grey hairs really coming in now :-\
― velko

don't think i'd fancy knowing on which body parts exactly ;)

Turning 40 on Monday. No fear, no regrets so far. Am looking forward to - hopefully! finally! - quitting smoking and curbing the social drinking to a minimum. But still gonna enjoy
myself as much as possible before I have to buy that walker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_29#Births

GK CHesterson!
Bob Hope!
TH White!
JFK!
Iannis Xenakis!
Josef Von Sternberg!
Danny Elfman!
Melissa Etheridge!
Rupert Everett!
Noel Gallagher!

But best of all…

JOHN HICKLEY JR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats!

http://i1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/711/907/16/an14sBBtun3Cimg.jpg

Happy Almost Birthday, you squalling infant. SHARE YOUR CAKE.

in the last couple of weeks i have had to learn what a 'spasm of the facet joint' is (the phrase : "fucking painful" is apt), and developed an unexpected obsession for miles davis 69-74 era.
i've never really felt over 40, but these two additions to my life have certainly brought the fact into focus.
having said that, i am the more content, calm, and satisfied with life than i have ever been.

happy birthday oilyrags.

thx, y'all. As soon as it hits five, I'm going mallwalking!

Get there by four for the Early Bird Special!

I am very much on the young part of this thread, but stuff like this makes me feel like I'm 100.

http://www.retronaut.com/2013/10/people-using-cincinnati-public-library-card-catalog/

Look at those troglodytes, having to open and close drawers to find their library books!

This is the reason I'm exercising now. I mean at age 34, not right now this minute - although I suppose I'm exercising my fingers. Put it another way, I'm doing it because I'm lazy, and it'll be a lot harder if I wait until I'm 40 to start getting fit again.

― snoball, Friday, August 29, 2008 3:29 PM (6 years ago)

^^^ ranks as one of the best decisions I've ever made. I'm 40 now, don't even want to think about how out of shape I'd be if I hadn't got off my backside.

ooohhhh boy is my years of not exercising and wearing the orthotics in my shoes im supposed to, catching up with me now. So many bits hurt.

Had my first migraine (I think?) on Friday. I know they strike persons of any age, but I'm lumping it in with all my other old guy ailments. Hope I never have to live through another one, though. Goddamn. Brutal.

Im dreading the likely-soon-approaching "change of lyfe" cos it comes early for all the women in mi family. YAY.

i will be 40 in 2016. already seeing random grey hairs, some minor wrinkling, and a herniated disc, but i've had that for 10 years.

my super-hilarious running joke is that i'm going to write a weird al-style parody of "everybody hurts" called "everything hurts."

you know what i'm too old for? "progressive" political marches that never change a damn thing.

Political marches mainly serve as a way for progressives to fell less lonely for a day or two. The real work to change things happens elsewhere.

yes, but i just feel lonelier

That may not be the marches' fault.

xp that's because you hope even as you feel hopeless, you crazy diamond

I stopped caring about aging. I'll be sixty in as many years as this board is old. Why care? I feel fine.

my 40s are breaking my heart tbrr. I think people join cults when they're in the sort of place i'm in about my 40s.

I'm getting old before my time. I'm definitely in prime cult-joining headspace right now.

meet u at Z3nd1k F@rm at dusk

http://sharetv.com/images/guide/360520.jpg

favorite episode tbh

Im dreading the likely-soon-approaching "change of lyfe" cos it comes early for all the women in mi family. YAY.

― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Monday, September 22, 2014 12:05 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For my part I'd prefer to start "The Change" now--massive periods are yet another thing I'm fed up with. (However, if I do take after my mother in this regard, 1) my menopause is still quite a few years away, and 2) I can look forward to a 3-week cycle, as opposed to 4 weeks. YAY?)

Yeah at the moment without turning this thread into a TMI one, my insides are all over the damn place and its a pain in the jacksy.

Also god dammit, I have to learn that I cant drink like I have been for the last 15 years, forever.

ha, i was going to post something like "lol you change-of-lifers have it easy" but i didn't want to go down a TMI road.

Guess I get to post here now.

t-minus 16 days and counting.

Welcome!

46 is a weird age. i feel good, but also want to complain a lot about being tired.

6 days

I have so much doctoring I need to get done. A physical, probably a prostate exam, definitely some dental work and a new glasses/contacts prescription (bifocals!) is in order.

i'm already at the bifocal-contacts stage. i know i'll soon be at the point where i'll need f--g "reading glasses." or only read big-print texts.

48 and counting

Area 51.

http://a1star.com/images/area51.gif

I felt like a schlub last weekend when my 65 year old father came over to help me work on my yard and he would be digging up roots and sawing branches for hours at a time without taking breaks and I'd have to sit down after just mowing the grass.

Strangely 40 and 41 were OK for me. 42-45 were killers. I think I sort of rounded down in my mind, like oh, I'm still in my 30s. 42 and after, brutal.

I feel like I turned 40 as soon as I had kids. Now that I'm almost 40, I'm really glad I wasn't 40 when I had kids.

I don't have kids, sometimes I still think that I'm 26

I don't have kids, sometimes I still think that I'm 26.
Then I try to get out of bed.

yup