A Half a Century of Me!!

Can you believe it??!! Yep, I have been on God's earth now for 50 years!! I think it is amazing! great! fantastic! 50 is such a cool number! It does sound weird though when I say it to my self............50.................50 years....................50 years old. I think about it and can't really believe it yet. (Probably in the morning when I get up and my bones are a crackin' I will believe it better then) What happens when one turns 50. Will my hot flashes finally go away? What about the "new" chin I have grown...........it wobbles like a turkey gobblers neck! My eyes seem to have gotten smaller too...........ah.....it is the "droopy lid" syndrome I have heard about. I am getting "bumps" on my legs, arms, face, on my head in my hair!!,..........I went to the dermatologist and he said "it is just age" AGGG!!! and I thought I was developing cancer or something by the growths (my regular doctor was worried and said I should have them checked right away!)..........just age he says. Whew! I feel better about that!!
I can't see as well anymore, but in a way that is good, I can't see the gobbler chin as well, or all the age bumps. I can't see the new lines that are developing on my face, or the skin that now sags ..................ah 50 is great! I don't see the strands of hair everyday getting grayer (Clairol helps believe you me!).........but what I do see when I look in the mirror in the morning is my MOTHER!! I believe this new decade is going to be great........what you can't see won't bother you, and what does you can just rack it up to growing older!! Hey you can have it both ways now in this new decade of mine. I think I am gonna like it. I have to look at my Mom and my grandmother...........both 77 and 96. My other grandmother lived til 98 and her mother my great-grandmother Nana.............was 103 when she passed. So statistically I have only lived half my age! The next 50 should be an adventure.......come to think of it I still wanna go para-gliding :)