Age Challenged rQQzy: Always Something

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Three major events occurred for me last year (2010), all in the space of about 2 weeks. I turned 50. The following day I got married. Two weeks later, my oldest daughter became pregnant with her first child and my first grandchild.

Most middle-aged people will tell you that in their minds, they still feel 20 something. It's the same for me.

Wasn't it only yesterday that I was planning a night out with guys from the surf club? That gorgeous new perm. Flaired, cuffed denims and the red t-shirt with the off-the-shoulder frill. Corked platform wedgies. **sigh**

Suddenly I'm looking in the mirror and wondering how 30 years can flash by so damned quickly!

So here I am in cyberspace, sharing my genuine shock and horror with anyone who'll listen and maybe I'll even meet some other over 50s who find themselves in the same predicament!

Welcome to my dilemna!!

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Always Something

For Adoring Husband, there is ALWAYS some kind of medical condition or issue, warranting the world’s attention.

Struggling with either a bad back, neck, shoulder, hip or knee (depending on the day), a bad toe that he has kicked a thousand times on a gate that’s been in the same place for seventeen years, vertigo, sciatica, sleep apnea, night terrors, deafness, speech difficulties, a constant raspy tickling cough, a memory gone walkabout and that’s just to name a few.

So today’s plan for him to drive into The Bay to purchase a box of toilet paper for the shop toilets went by the wayside because his right knee is the current problem, so BGWLBH and I drove in to run his errand, as well as our own.

We left early to have breakfast at a little place on the esplanade. Nothing for me because nobody serves what I can actually eat, but I was a bit naughty and had a cup of black tea.

Office works was on our list, BIG W, Lady’s boutique, butcher, Coles, Su Jus, G D Products, Farm Gate, Newsagent, Seafood place, bakery, craft shop - no wonder I’m so bloody tired!

All of this on the back of minimal sleep due to the tennis.

Lights out at 10.30pm and I fell asleep immediately. I woke at 11.30pm with a full bladder but was too lazy to get out of bed so went back to sleep until it woke me again at 12.30am. Straight back to sleep after a loo visit until 1.30am when I turned on the tennis to watch Djokovic win his round two match which finished at 4.15am.

I set my alarm for 8.10am and fell asleep instantly. I woke without the alarm at 7am.

I got through the day successfully.

Honey Soy chicken with rice for dinner. I had some more chicken broth with poached chicken wings - I’m addicted and I can feel it healing me from within 💖

I also crumbed some prawn cutlets and whiting fillets. I fried a couple of each for a late lunch. The whiting is SO good!

We played trivia for an hour before the football started. I tipped correctly and I’m 20 points in front of second place. Go me!

Now I’m going to sleep because there are lots of Aussies playing tennis tonight and I hope to watch most of them.