Eye cream and Zimmer Frame needed.

(Zimmer Frame is what we call ‘walkers’)

 Scene: Tertia at beauty therapist, having a facial

 Tertia: Please let me know if you think I should change my moisturizer or night cream or add any thing else. (Thinking that perhaps I need a stronger one / less oily / whatever)

 Beauty therapist: Well, you could start using some eye cream. Not that you have wrinkles or anything (liar!), but well, you know …*

 You know, there was a time when I was the youngest person in the group / team / meeting. I was the young one. Now I am always the oldest. Not sure how that happened.

 38. Has someone pushed fast-forward or something? Where have the last 15 years gone?

 I have met quite a few South African bloggers recently. Really clever, interesting, knowledgeable, creative people. They are all WAY younger than I am.

 I am not sure if this means anything.

 Except perhaps that I am getting old and need eye cream.

* Now using the damn eye cream.

 

Comments

[Judy]

Girl, join the club. For my birthday last week, my MOM sent me moisturizer FOR AGING SKIN. I was petrified. What is she trying to tell me????

We are NOT old. Our bodies have just been around here for a bit longer than we'd like to believe.

[JennyK]

Eye cream is great -- though I now wish I'd followed my best friend's lead and started using it at 16. She still looks fabulous while the crows have definitely been perching on my peepers for a while now. I can't believe I ever made fun of her for it.

[ks]

Too funny. I just ran out to buy some this weekend-and I'm only 32! My husband's holiday party this year was at a very posh hotel, and the lighting was so bad in the ladies room-very harsh. I looked at least 10 years older in those mirrors, not a pretty sight. Usind eye cream now, hoping to banish those fine lines before they turn into all-out wrinkles!

[Aurelia]

Just keep repeating what I do...I don't look old, I have sun damage from all those times as a child I forgot to wear sunscreen...then hurriedly slather on some more, and look up whether or not Botox is really THAT expensive.

[Melany aka Supermom]

Oh Teria. Pls count yourself as one of the lucky ones. I'm a very young 32 and I'm already using eyecream...which really doesn't work btw

[Jerri Ann]

I'm 38...I feel so old sometimes especially when I'm around these cute little 25 year olds with kids the same age as mine...ack!

[Suzie-Q.]

I think it depends alot on your genes. Take a look at your mom's face and you will see your future!

[Paul Jacobson]

Thanks for the mention Tertia and especially for saying I am "clever"! Shucks!

[margalit]

It has to do with genetics, dahlink. Some people are just born lucky, some are not. My mother didn't get a wrinkle until she was well into her 70s. I'm 54 and I don't have one either. But I do use eye cream, not for wrinkles, but because your skin thins as you get older and my under eyes were almost translucent before eye cream. It was CREEPY. Now I'm looking for a decent skin lotion that will prevent the ugly age spots I have. I think I'd rather have wrinkles than the brown spots that have taken over my body. Sun damage does show up after all. Damn.

[spit]

I'm 38, too. But, all my friends are in their 40's & 50's. I do that on purpose so I can be the youngest!

[sourpatchbaby]

Way I see it, all the old people died off/retired. That's why you *seem to be the eldest. It's not that you got old, is just that the old people moved to Florida leaving all the young ones with even younger ones to think they are the old.

[victoria]

Eye cream doesn't work. Restylane, baby, restylane.

[Bec]

Uh, Tertia? Let me ask you this...if you ask somebody who has something to sell if you need it...will the answer ever be "no"?

You set yourself up for that one! On the other hand, I need some too....wahhhhh!

[Lauryan]

You're not old!!! You're more experienced is all!! :D

Like a fine wine - the longer you are around, the more you are appreciated!!

[Dave Duarte]

I think it's better to be mistaken for being younger than you are (you probably get this), than being mistaken for being much older than you are (my problem)... I may have to secretly invest in some of that eye-cream stuff and hope for the best!

[Anna]

I know what you're saying - I was alway the hot young chica, and now I'm 39.

How did that happen?!

In my head I'm still the hot young chica. With, umm, wrinkles and saggy bits and stuff.

[Promise Rings]

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