When did I get old?
You know what I'm talking about. When did "the News" become more important than cartoons or comedy reruns? When did a grocery store meat sale become exciting? Ooh, ground round is only $1.59/lb! What happened?
I watched a movie over the weekend. I actually watched it twice. The first time was due to laziness. I was too lazy to change the channel and it sucked me in. Anyway, I'm watching "What a Girl Wants" when Jake comes in and sits with me. He smiles and then he starts talking. There is one person in the world that talks more than I do and I gave birth to him.
Jake: I didn't know you liked Amanda too.
Me: Who's Amanda?
Jake: The star of this movie, duh.
Me: You mean the little girl?
Jake: She's not little. She's 18.
Me: Oh, well then. So, she was born the year I graduated high school. [OMG]
Jake: If you aren't watching it because of Amanda, why are you watching it?
Me: Very simple. Because the dad is a babe, that's why.
Jake: Don't tell anyone else that reason.
Me: Why?
Jake: It makes you sound old. Everyone thinks you're young and cool. Don't blow it.
I watched a movie because the dad, Colin Firth, was hot.
When did this happen to me? I watched a movie because the dad was hot. How did I turn old and lame? I watched a movie because the dad was hot.
I'm going to analyze this further. I shall now go.
I must meditate... in the fetal position.
Today's mantra is "I'm not old and lame; Colin Firth really IS hot".
You'll always be young to me, sweetie.
Even though you're old and lame. (Ducking!)
oh, quit it...you're just getting better with time...what I saw of you didn't scare me off! Dean, get this woman some chocolate right away...
LOL, I feel your pain, sweetie, I looked this one in the face on my eldest daughters 21st birthday in January.... and I'm not even 40 til July ;Þ
I would suggest that by attempting to remain 'cool' or avoid being lame bypasses the sheer joy that is a birthright of middle age: being secure enough not to care what teenagers and twentysomethings think is cool or lame.
Freedom is being old enough to reject being a slave to fashion. And slaves they are.
What Pogo said. And I agree that Colin Firth is hot.
Everyone thinks you're young and cool. Don't blow it.
Bwahaha!
I used "kids these days" in all seriousness in a conversation this morning.
Colin Firth = TeH Hawt!!!111!! (see? I can do net speak! I'm not lame, honest!)
And I watched that same movie for the same reason. If those whippersnappers can't appreciate the hotness of the Firth, well, give them a nickel and send them to the moving picture show!
Thanks for the support. I KNEW the Firth was hot!
I'm gonna dig up a pic...
Colin Firth is very hot. My son called over the weekend to announce that he asked his sweetie to marry him. She said 'yes'. I'm going to be a mother-in-law. I'm old.
Lame.
You broke rule number 7 - the Brits are not hot.
Susan,
Hooray! That is wonderful news about your son. You aren't old until someone can call you granny.
I plan to change that statement when I become a granny, though. ;-)
I heard that 60 is the "new 40". So, we are all good!
I'm 19, and a lot of my friends think Colin Firth is hot. It's a very different crowd from the girls that find Brad Pitt hot (I don't see it, I really don't) but you're in the company of a lot of young women.
Another really, really sexy Brit? Hugh Grant. I hear in real life he's a complete bastard but... ::drools::
Tim,
Maybe not the chicks but the men are hot!
Also, in Bridget Jone's Diary, Colin Firth kicked Hugh Grant's ass. That made him all the more hot.
Actually, now that I think of it, a British accent can turn a man with only a so-so appearance into a complete dreamboat. As a corollary, bad teeth can make a perfect Adonis look really, really gross.
So, so so so hot. Don't forget Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, holy smokes!
Rosemary,
Agree completely about 'granny' though I am looking forward to it. Since moving to the midwest 3 years ago, I've been carded almost every time I've purchased an adult beverage. I think it's because folks are nicer here than New England. Anyway, the thought of being old enough to be a m-i-l snuck up on me. Couldn't ask for a sweeter future daughter-in-law, though.
And I had to check - I'm only a year older than Colin-the-stud!
Susan,
See? You are still a delicate young flower!
Bless your heart, Rosemary! By the way, do you think Colin would go for a slightly older woman?
And what is your opinion on Jeremy Northam? Adrian Paul? Yum...
Growing older is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
-anonymous (though, oddly enough, usually attributed to my dad!)
Speaking of getting old, did I just follow a link here to agrammar quiz? I followed it, took the test, and then tried to come back here to brag about my score and couldn't find the post. If I am going senile, I'd better let you all know where I buried the gold bullion. It's right under a big "W", in the state of...... where am I? What am I doing on this computer? What's a blog?
Phil,
Oops! It's back now.
So? Colin Firth is hot -- that's all that counts :)
I may have to check out this movie now. It's the second time I've read a blog post on it.
I love an English accent. There are some guys I could just listen to them read a phone book [g] Top of that list, Peter Wingfield, and Nigel Bennett.
Susan,
Unfortunately, Colin is married. If he wasn't he'd dig an older chick. Jeremy Northam is yummy. Adrian Paul is hot.
I've always had a thing for Tim Dalton and he still looks good at almost 60.
That's okay, Rosemary - I rather dig my slightly older husband! Agree on T. Dalton - Pierce Brosnan anyone? Who said Englishmen/Brits weren't hot? What's rule number 7?
That was the Eel loving Tim.
Brosnan...almost forgot him. Is warm in here?
Just to keep the ladies fired up, y'all forgot The Man: Sean Connery.
Although I'm not sure either Connory or Brosnan count; IIRC Connory is Scottish and Brosnan Irish.
Speaking of which, what do you girls think of Colin Farrell? :)
And yes, I watched the movie too. I enjoyed the story and the actors. I was also surprised to find out that Amanda Bynes only just turned 18. Yikes. She seemed to have a very strong presence for someone that young.
CHRIST! Great, Rose, now you've got me talking like that!! Wench! Heh.
Casey - who once said that it didn't matter if Sean read the phone book as long as she could hear his voice? Perhaps it's my Scottish heritage but his pipes make me melt...
Saw "The Recruit" and "Phonebooth" and was impressed with Colin's talent. A bit too young for me, though...
Nah, you're not old.. but just to be sure, could you post a few more lingerie and firearms pics? :)
I have a saying that goes-
"If you want to stay young, you have to do the things that make you feel old"
Such as work out 5-6 days a week, especially when you would rather sit down to that nice dinner.
Its all psychological - or, more specifically, the mental understanding of your mortality.
At 17 I was happily standing in the bed of a pickup truck, chugging beers while holding on to the rollbar as my friend tore around the streets of San Diego...at 29 I was wandering around Tecolote Canyon in San Diego, where my friends and I used to play as children...coming across a rope swing we had set up in days of yore, I decided to try it out for old times sake.
Grasping the rope and scurried up the hillside to reach the jump off point; legs firmly planted, a strong grip on the rope, I looked out below my perch - there was the exact same, rock-strewn creek-bed I had swung out across literally thousands of times just a short 15 years or so previously. I meditated. Adjusted my weight. Checked my grip. And then climbed down - those were rocks below, you know, and a broken bone isn't any fun....at that moment, I knew for certain that while I wasn't exactly one foot in the grave the other on a banana peel, I was, indeed, quite mortal and, ergo, old.
Mark:- did you check the condition of the rope? Fifteen years would probably render any normal rope completely unsafe. Go back, bring a nice new rope, and swing to your heart's content!! I guarantee you feel young again!
Old and lame? You? NEVAH!
I find it extremely interesting that you posted this, though; because I'm feeling old, fat and SOMEONE'S GRANDMOTHER.
Aaaaiieeee!!
I think I need a hug.