- I don’t put the 🙂 smiley things at the end of my texts. Do you know how long it takes me to write a text? I’m not wasting more time on unnecessary key strokes.
- Still on texts, no matter how hard I try I just can’t seem to abbreviate. I still write in full “are”, “you”, “because” and so it goes on. It just doesn’t LOOK right otherwise.
- While we are talking abbreviations I don’t like having to have a cheat sheet next to me just to read my children’s messages. My ability to recall what abbreviations meant stagnated at LOL and OMG and frankly I’ve never moved on.
- I now read about the death of famous people and find myself saying “they weren’t old they were only 60” and when one of them is my age I go into a cold sweat and need a lie down. Seriously, nobody should be dying at 46.
- When I end up with a locum doctor I find myself wondering how the hell someone that YOUNG could have acquired a medical degree? It takes years and years right? These kids look like they should could still be playing schoolyard soccer.
- I find myself thinking that I could have just 10-15 years of working life left. Then I do the math and realise I will NEVER be able to afford to retire.
- I hear myself complaining about my aches and pains.
- I’m starting to quote my mother more and more.
- I’ve got plans for what I’m going to do with the children’s rooms when they move out. The will move out won’t they?
- I am waxing lyrically to my children about how the 80’s were the premier decade for music.
- I’m crossing things off the bucket list. I’m not actually doing them. I’m just making executive decisions that I don’t really WANT to spend a day traipsing through Peru. In fact I’m hearing myself say “there’s so much to do right here in Australia” a lot lately. When I start researching coach tours I’ll really start to panic.
How about you? Are you feeling young or old today?
Yes, all sounding very familiar, except I still do smileys. 🙂 But you will really feel old when you realise the prime minister is younger than you are (which happened to me with Rudd. I also now have a worrying impulse to call young women girls, which I never had before I hit my 40s.
Phew, just googled Abbott’s age he’s still 10 years older than I am!
Lol, yes, you see what I mean then.
Just as an FYI, I agree with 2 and 3 on this list… as for number 1, well, I’ll go the extra mile for a smiley face. How else am I supposed to flirt through a text message?
Aaahh, so that’s how you young ‘uns flirt??
I have used a smiley face in an SMS this week. I sometimes say SMS rather than text. I only started working in education at the end of 2012 and I don’t think I should think about retiring given I’ve just started out.
I briefly felt offended when work colleagues were talking an out their fiftieths in the next year or so and they thought I was the same age as them. I thought that the contestants on the biggest loser should be grateful to mark it to 50 or 60 but then realized my grandmother is still alive at 88 so 50 isn’t really a good innings. I’m not sure if I’m just getting older or stranger.
I’m trying to be positive about the rapidly approaching 50’s, a chinese face reader dude once told me I would have great success later in life, so I’m expecting big things from that decade.