There is a definite correlation - my blogging efforts go UP when I should be doing something else (and have access to the computer)!
Anyway, I found this today and it made me laugh (out loud) and I thought about our 'boring' exchanges. I thought Goombagirl's comments were spot on about isolated teenagers but that's a whole other discussion!
In the meantime, I am reproducing Carol Midgley's piece in yesterday's Times for you all to enjoy - it's reframing, alright!
Oh, why the sad face? You haven’t been reading that tosh about middle age being the unhappiest time of your life, have you? Researchers in Britain and America claim that for women the most miserable age is 40 and for men, 50, regardless of whether you’re single, married, rich or poor. Well, I’m here to tell you to look on the bright side. It doesn’t have to be so bad. There are many reasons to celebrate being middle-aged now. Here are 15 of them:
— You don’t give a stuff about Facebook.
— You feel no guilt about spending £9 on a bottle of wine.
— You’re too old for 18-30 holidays, too young for a Saga cruise.
— You no longer apologise for wanting to sit down in pubs.
— You know for a fact that youth is wasted on the young.
— You don’t have to pretend to talk like a teenage rapper to seem cool to your friends.
— You’ll never again have to dance in public if you don’t want to.
— You avoided tuition fees and got drunk for three years on the State.
— History programmes on TV are no longer boring.
— Gardening and Su Doku excite you far more than Ecstasy.
— You missed the entire alcopops/WKD/Hooch era.
— Far from making you angry, wolf-whistles from a building site can make your day.
— When you’re caught looking round Topshop, you can pretend that you’re shopping for your daughter.
— Clubbing – it’s history. Hooray!
— You can afford Botox.
I don't do Botox, I still would love to go clubbing but much of the rest...especially gardening, rang true! Ha ha!
PS Peridot - your blog has got me thinking about relationships. Will post something! But you are not wrong to want certain things. I can say that...as a 40-something woman! xxxxx
Absolutely! (Except for Botox and Sudoku)
Posted by: goombagirl | February 01, 2008 at 02:47 PM
Yep, b/f and I went to bed at 10.30pm on Saturday to read our books. He said this was something we shouldn't really want to do until we're 60 odd. But I said I'd much rather do that than go clubbing - and had felt like that since I was 22! Don't care if that makes me boring.
love
Peridot x
Posted by: Peridot | February 04, 2008 at 10:26 AM