It’s Confirmed: I look like a Grandma
I don’t know why I do this to myself. I don’t. I don’t really stress about my age, because I truly believed that people still see an 18 year old when they look at me. It’s not so much that I think I LOOK 18, but I guess I just haven’t given much thought to the fact that I may look like I’m in my mid-30s.
As an 18 year old, or even a 28 year old, there was just something about 30+ that reeked of mom hair, bad jeans and matching track suits. Not me! It will never happen.
Instead, I have style-less hair that lives in a ponytail all day, I have no jeans that fit, and I actually DO receive matching track suits for my birthday. In hot pink, no less. Oh wait, this year’s was mint green. That’s nice, thank you. Now, I can look like a huge gumball, but at least it’s a pretty color.
Over the weekend, I was looking my finest. My hair…out of a pony, looking like a before picture (Before style, before coloring…) my face, with no makeup, wearing my finest sweat pants and too-big t-shirt. I sat at the table with J for breakfast, and somehow we got to talking about age. Yes, we agreed, men have it easier. Wrinkles, grays? No big deal for a man. A bit heavy in the middle? Fine. J looks his age, and that is just great for me.
And then I asked…”Could I pass for 29?”
After the laughter died down, he said no. What? Really? “Sorry, you just can’t. But you’ve never looked better.”
“Cut the shit…are you serious? I really look my age?”
“Yes…why is that so bad?”
Well, let’s see…because I am at an age that I used to view as over the hill? Because I’m at an age where my teen-aged cousins say “Wow, I didn’t know you were THAT old.” Or because after years of gymnastics, my body actually hurt after showing M how to do a cartwheel. Backaches, knee-aches, wrinkles, old lady crankiness. Good enough reasons? Next time, just lie. I’ll forgive you, as long as it’s believable.
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Posted by LZ on August 24, 2009
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August 24, 2009
Another reason being a woman sucks! You look great in all the pics I have seen of you.
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August 24, 2009
hi there! found you through mbc and became your follower. loved your post and will come back to read some more. come and visit me too
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August 24, 2009
rofl! Why is it that we still feel so young, yet look so old? I HATE when I see a “non-posed” picture of me. I just have to cringe.
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August 24, 2009
Uggg, it makes me so mad that it’s perfectly fine for men to have gray hair and wrinkles. How come they get called “distinguished” while we just get called old and get all kinds of botox and wrinkle pamphlets thrown our way?!
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August 24, 2009
I completely relate to this. I thought I was the only one that felt this way. I’m a horrible judge of people’s ages because I don’t have the right picture of myself in my head. Everybody seems older than me in my opinion but in actuality, it’s likely the reverse.
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LZ replied:
August 24th, 2009
Exactly! I always think I’m the young one. I haven’t been the young one in quite a while…
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August 24, 2009
It’s funny that you wrote about this because I was JUST thinking about this same thing recently.
My husband is 45 and looks like he’s 35. I’m in my late thirties and look. Well….
It’s sad. I’m sad.
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August 24, 2009
You are a hoot~! I have to admit, when my 32 year old SIL started wearing purple track suits, I had a good laugh! I am sure you are MUCH cooler!
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LZ replied:
August 24th, 2009
Hmmm. Purple IS my favorite color. Perhaps I would look nice in a purple suit…nothing like Violet Beauregard…
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August 24, 2009
This post made me laugh. When I turned 30 my best male friend gave me a card that said “Congrats on turning 30. Your next step is to get your hair cut like your mother’s” Ugh
You need to give yourself some more “out of pony tail days”. Don’t forget to be good to yourself too!
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August 24, 2009
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I showed up for my first day coaching x-c practice at my old college, and those 18-year-olds made me feel ancient (not by anything they said–they’re very nice, of course). It seemed inconceivable to them that anyone who went to school there in the 90′s could still be alive.
At least now I have a reason for being out and about in track clothes every damn day (besides the elastic waistbands and lack of underwire).
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August 25, 2009
There are some things it’s okay to lie about: saying you look younger than you are – definitely one of them. But really, 30s aren’t old! Save it for when you’re in your 40s wishing you were still in your 30s. Funny post!
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August 25, 2009
ach, men don’t know what they are talking about. My husband said that too to me.
I was feeling terrible pressure to lose weight now that I’m in Switzerland, even more than in NY because people are pretty skinny as a rule here.
And yet, someone on the bus the other day told me I looked like I was in my 20s, and today – I’m ashamed to admit this, or rather, I’m ashamed to say after horrified I was kind of flattered by this – a teenager passed me by, smiled appreciatively and said “Wow, you’re Hot”.
So I’m sorry honey, you don’t know what you are talking about. Neither does yours
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September 10, 2009
That is too funny! It sucks to get older.
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