Sunday, September 28, 2008
Tangled Web My Ass!
I'm finding that this whole aging thing is changing my personality. I have, for example, never considered myself to be a person who was vain about my appearance (see wardobe, waistline), instead priding myself on other virtues - including honesty. Recently, however, desperate attempts to hide signs of aging have driven me to include adobe photoshop in the routine "developing" of any pictures of me. Today I learnt that the attempts to cover my senility, however, can be even more deceptive, desperate, and time-consuming. I just realized today that I had forgotten to send a birthday card to my friend Shimmy (so named for her ability to flaunt her "blessings" in a shoulder shaking dance). Shim is the queen of birthday cards, sending not just one but several in a month-long celebration of my birthday. While this may simply be her way of covering her own forgetfullness of the actual date, I do know that Shim's birthday was in late August, and now September is nearly over. I had no other choice but to send her card as damaged, covering the envelope with "evidence" that it had traveled all around the continental U.S. (or at least to her old Colorado Springs address) before reaching her in Hawaii. "Return to Sender", corrected addresses, and a trip just now to the storage shed, ink pad in hand, to gather tire tracks from my bike are all part of my deceptive attempt to cover my forgetfullness. I am exhausted. It is indeed a bitch growing old.
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8 comments:
this is good stuff!
Thank you!
By the way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Abbzug! I think it is tomorrow - or today - or sometime in September. I do remember it was 1975, but alas, isn't the triumph of long-term over short-term memory another hallmark of senility?
oh, my! thanks for the reminder p-lou!
geeze i almost forgot!
:)...and the beat goes on!
I just came back from the restroom where I learned that i forgot to put on makeup this morning. If I had remembered to use the restroom earlier - it is now 2 p.m.! - I might have noticed. School is out at 2:40, so what the hell...
thank you! i have some pretty crappy friends who never ever forget my birthday and remember to call me or send me a card that arrives precisely on my bday. I am fairly certain they do this to me to rub in the fact that I have never not once remembered their birthdays. They are better people, see, than I. I love the ideas, therefore, of 1) sending several cards in the birthday month (or season...let's say) to distract from the fact that I have forgotten the exact day, and 2) sending a birthday card at some point during the year that looks like it has gone to BFE and back... I have learned so much today!
Was I right about the bike tire or what?!
Looks fantastic....
One question: Is getting old a bitch, or is the bitch getting old?
Yes, thank you for the idea. Valencia actually offered this genius bike tire suggestion in response to my lament that I was too tired to walk downstairs to run over the card with the subaru. And the answer is YES to the question - which I believe has been posed about another old bitch on this blog.
the only thing that worries me is the fact that anyome may be "forgetting" to go to the restroom.............
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