Age is just a number

They say that this day and age being in your 40s is like being in your 30s. I still feel like I'm in my 30s, so yes, I believe this...that is until today.

I had been inputting some data in our system and could not believe all the people we have hired who were born in 1984 (this was the year I graduated high school), so I started feeling a little less young for some reason and began to remember when I thought 40 was old. Then I was helping a young man fill out his application on-line in our lobby where the computers are, he was probably in his early 20s (as he kept calling me MAM - a**hole) anyway, there was another man that started talking that sounded like Ricardo Montalbon (sp) when I was helping this young guy I had just mentioned - wow that guy sounds like Ricardo Montalban - he just looks at me blankly and says, isn't he the old guy from that old movie called the Wrath of Kahn? - I said yes, but he is most famous for his time on Fantasy Island - he looks at me again and said (very serious) You mean that old guy was in a porno???? I said NO, Fantasy Island was a family show when I was young, it was very popular. He then said, it still sounds like a porno title to me. - So, after that I really wanted to delete his resume and application on-line but that might be a little unethical. Oh well...

So, I go back to inputting more data - oh look here - there is someone born in 1985, 1986 and OH MY GOD, 1989?? I go to the recruiter and ask - Since when have we started hiring infants?????? But she reminded me that this person was at least 19 years old (18 is the age that you can work at the hospital where I work). Sigh...it seems like 1989 was just yesterday. It was before I got married and was doomed to a life of misery for 13 years, it was right after I moved back to Kansas CIty after being a nanny in Hackensack, NJ (and after watching that demon child that is when I decided I didn't want to have children - she ruined it for me for life), this was also before 9/11 and it was pretty easy to fly, yes, 1989 it still seems like it was just a year ago. How can it be 2009 already? It just seems time is flying by so fast, pretty soon I'll start seeing 1990 and will probably need some oxygen to go with my walker...

Oh well, I believe in my inward age, I still feel and act young, I still laugh loudly, I listen to loud music (not as much as I used to), I still like movies that teenagers would love (I know that is very sad but I do), I still feel like there is a lot left in my life and it's just going to get better. I am counting on a whole new chapter in my life again and can't wait to see where it goes. Like in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes when the young girls steal a parking space from Kathy Bates who plays Evelyn Couch: Hey! I was waiting for that spot! Girl #1: Face it, lady, we're younger and faster! [Evelyn rear-ends the other car six times] Girl #1: What are you *doing*? Girl #2: Are you *crazy*? Evelyn Couch: Face it, girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.