<p>When I am an old woman…</p>
<p>I’ll probably still be on CC, checking for the best colleges for my (currently non-existent) grandchildren.</p>
<p>While wearing my red hat.</p>
<p>Oh, and Jeanne Calment, the oldest woman in the world at the time she died, credited her long lifespan in part to eating almost a kilo of chocolate every week. So yes, chocolate too.</p>
<p>I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.</p>
<p>and walk along the beach…</p>
<p>and hear the mermaids singing each to each…</p>
<p>I think I’ll just be myself, intensified. A little wiser, a little less patient, a little more compassionate, a little more irritable, a lot more grateful to have seen so many years. I hope I won’t be a widow.</p>
<p>It is funny to read “…I hope to…”, I do not need to say that at all, a am an old woman…And I can tell that being yourself ins changing from 50s to 60s. Very much so. You start really appreciating being happy every minute of your life. And it does not happen naturally. As I said, in addition to all normal stuff, like call from your adult kids and grandkids and just not being sick, in addition to all that is natural in 50s, you got to figure out what is keeping you happy. Alcohol, chocolate and exercise and extremely entertaining job are my things. What are yours you do not even know, if you are not there yet.</p>
<p>When I’m an old woman, I will aim to rattle everyone’s cages, & have a boy toy.
I dont really like chocolate, but sometimes my merlot has some chocolatey notes.
Keith Richards is 70, perhaps I will ask him for health tips. I don’t think I can stomach headcheese.</p>
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<p>I do not think that they will sing to me.</p>
<p>I will be an old woman if Mr B departs before my time. Until then, I will be his girl. 
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<p>BB, that is so sweet!</p>
<p>MiamiDAP; I just don’t have the love for exercise, chocolate & my work, at times.
I’m not saying I don’t go to the gym or walk, but I’d rather read a book. I do like my gym buddies, and I know all the other walkers (&their dogs) in my neighborhood.
I am adventurous with new drinks. I tried a lovely one: vodka, ginger beer, lime, & ?.</p>
<p>So I think I will head to the beach every Sunday, with a nice book, and look for a clone of Mr.BB, to sweeten my senior years.</p>
<p>Drunk might be an improvement. Just saying…</p>
<p>I hope to still be able to travel to places I’ve never been, and spend lots of time with my still non-existent grandchildren.</p>
<p>Actually, all kidding aside, alcohol is sometimes a problem for seniors, who spend a lot of time alone and don’t have much else going on. It keeps the pain at bay.</p>
<p>I can understand that. </p>
<p>I’ll still be waiting on those dang grandbabies I am sure! They are taking F O R E V E R…</p>
<p>All the kiddos have friends who are married, just got married and have babies or are having babies. Mine, oh no…I’m lucky some have BFs/GFs, if you can call them that. Too busy having fun.</p>
<p>But they did all come home after undergrad so I really shouldn’t complain, too much. </p>
<p>And yet here I am, bemoaning my babyless fate. They are all self-supporting and have their own places. Some many would be so happy for that, and again I am noisily whining.</p>
<p>Old is a relative term, I feel old when they all want to stay up all night and raise a ruckus and young when we are planning to all go somewhere together.</p>
<p>That drinking thing does sound nice. Hmmm.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>I am going to swim and run (slowly) and bike for close by transportation on a bike with a basket in the front. I am going to be famous in the neighborhood for my bike. </p>
<p>A creature of habit, I will eat a lot of the same things, but on my everyday list I intend to add a nightly glass of wine, sticking to the good stuff, knowing to uncork it now and not wait. </p>
<p>I really like the idea of gardening. </p>
<p>60’s is older, not elderly, even when retired. 80’s is old/elderly. I hope to live that long. Mom died at 53- difference between us is that I never smoked. She never saw any grandchildren. If our only child is like his parents he has another good ten years to meet and marry, much less produce grandchildren. My father is in his late 80’s. I see vast differences between us in age related behaviors. I go to meetings of an area women’s club- some of the ladies are old, makes me feel so young.</p>
<p>So, I’m not elderly for another almost two decades. Hope to be alive and sound in mind and mostly body. Even now I see where the world belongs to the younger generation. Using our savings instead of accumulating them. Not thinking of changing career paths. Been there done that - have so much accumulated wisdom no one needs/wants.</p>
<p>Sure hope the young people can end the ridiculous amount of money spent on the oldest. We have our do not do … lists signed. Too many expect too much that is wasted. We are not entitled to every medical treatment available when there are children suffering from lack of resources. We do not deserve things, or respect, just because we have survived.</p>
<p>Drinking gives me hot flashes. So does chocolate, coffee & cheese.
Cannabis doesn’t though.
My mom died when she was 75, I actually expect H to outlive me.
[So</a> I wear purple ( metaphorically) now!](<a href=“http://www.laterbloomer.com/jenny-joseph]So”>http://www.laterbloomer.com/jenny-joseph)
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<p>When I think of “young old” and “old old”, I think of the last few ex-Presidents’ funerals. Nancy Reagan and Betty Ford (80’s) were so frail that it was heartbreaking. I remember looking at Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton (late 50’s to early 60’s) and thinking how strong and robust they looked by comparison. </p>
<p>Which reminds me - has anyone seen Jimmy Carter on TV lately? He seems so vigorous.</p>
<p>I’m not sure I’ll actually recognize it when I arrive at the point when I am old … the older I get, the older old seems to be. But when I do get there, I plan to read books, drink wine, go places to see things I want to see, arrive at and leave my cottage on weekdays (avoiding long lines for the car ferry), hang with my H, kids, and (hopefully) grandkids. I plan to truly enjoy whatever time I have left on this earth (and I fervently hope I don’t die or get dementia before I can do that). I have worked hard all my life, and I do look forward to slowing down someday!</p>