I'm sick and tired expending too much time in the bathroom. Now when i'm in the bathroom it take me a big ceremony on getting ready. My bath is taking me longer, because now i have to spend about 15mts soaking in epson salt for my lower back pain, legs and feet another minute or two on introducing my cream for my vaginal dryness, another minute or two on cleaning my sinus ( netty pot ) another minute or two flossing my teeth, so at the end i JUST DON'T HAVE TIME TO DO NOTHING ELSE. I just remember when i just spended it on getting beautiful, and now is just for Survival!! . Oh! iI forgot to mention my time i spent on applying my hemorroid cream Well after that, halve of my day is gone.

menosick

Meno, you are a delight and gave me my first morning giggle. Yes, one DOES have to have a sense of humor through it all, don't we? BUT!! Look at it this way, when things calm down, and you have the time to "beautify" again, imagine all the compliments that will come your way. People will stop you on the street and say..."Wow, you look marvelous! How the heck do you keep yourself looking so good". And only YOU will know the secret...well, you and several thousand of your closet friends, that is....

Hugs
Tay

menosick, It's epson salt bath soak for me, too. No fancy bubble baths for me. Do you remember the tv commerical, Calgon, take me away? It's epson salts for me. Take care! Pam

I was crying my eyes out (do I need a reason?) until I read this post. Cant stop laughing now...

menosick,

I also thought a few months ago, how I used to go to the chemist (drugstore??) for all the nice things like the lovely make-up etc
but now its for hair dye, indigestion relief and haemorrhoid cream, and lots of other survival items....costs a fortune too.

ladies, what we're talking about ..... is getting older! that, is not an easy pill to swallow! meno ... i feel exactly the same way!

Meno I just had to have a laugh it reminds me of myself, bathroom now looks like a chemist or drugstore.

Cheers

OK, I would like to weigh in here if I may: I have so many therapeutic lotions and potions that sometimes I feel like I am a hundred years old.

I have found that divide and conquer works very well. I take myself to wherever I need to be to perform the onerous tasks of growing older (56, still having periods, hurray for me!), and set aside dedicated time for a beauty routine, no matter how short. That way, I feel better about myself.

Not a sermon; just a thought.

Hugs all around,
Marcy

LOL!!! Although I know it is not funny but it is still half humourous to read! No, the days of flying out of the house looking wonderful and feeling wonderful without effort is certainly gone!
Girlsmom

, hi meno u are too funny. this getting older stuff is something, but i know we will make it through.

The other day, I woke up late and had to go to work! I didn't have time to do the regular beauty (nevermind survival!!) routine! My morning hair looks like a clown that has been electrocuted, so I threw it all under a hat! I managed to get some foundation, blush and lipstick on, but that was it....so on went the sunglasses! Got the teeth brushed and clothes on and out I went!! It is all about hiding now! I got teased about looking like a movie star...little did they know the horrors which were lurking under there!!

OMG, you, too????

I have to weigh in here as well...

I noticed JUST yesterday that my bathroom has changed dramatically as I've gotten older. Gone forever are the shelves lined with foundations, blushes, lipsticks, nail polish, and an array of eye colors. Gone are the many bottles of exotic perfumes, bath oils and beads. Gone entirely are the many varieties of hair bows, barrettes, and bands.

And in their place now are rows of multiple vitamin bottles to include A, C, D, E, Calcium, Magnezium, Flaxseed Oil, B-complex, and folic acid that go on forever. I have an entire shelf devoted to "anti-wrinkle" creams. I have the "anti-wrinkle" neck cream, face cream, eye creams, lips balms, forehead smoothers, and facial masks. I have tubes of facial scrubs, body scrubs, feet and hand exfoliates, and bath gloves that makes you feel like you're scrubbing with sandpaper. I have epson salts for my sore muscles, boric acid for my puffy dry eyes, vitamin E oils for my vaginal atrophy and every kind of sunscreen known to man. I have acne cream for my mid-life acne, hemmorhoidal cream for "those things" that have been with me since the birth of my first child, Lidex for those dry itchy spots that never get enough lotion, and paste, floss and whitening strips for my teeth.

Here's the clincher...after all of this, I look in the mirror and go..."What the F*!*?"

I so relate to KrissyK and Malkachava! My life is now based around creams, ointments, lotions, etc.

I use Finacea for my mid-life acne (which has really been with me since I was 17), hydrocortisone for my eyelids (or else they get raw and icky), Retin-A for my various lines, a prescription ointment when I need it for any hemorrhoid problems (and that's after I clean myself with Witch Hazel), a lip balm, and a wrinkle cream for my undereyes and neck. I then use lotion/cream all over my body, so that I don't get too dry . . . geez, have I left anything out??

However, I still love make-up -- cheap makeup. I love going to the drugstore and finding the right combination of lipstick, blush, and eye-makeup that will surely transform me from an ordinary middle-aged woman into a goddess. I keep that hope.

lol
this was very amusing

Here's the clincher...after all of this, I look in the mirror and go..."What the F*!*?"


Now Krissy that is really really funny. I say the same thing !!!!!!

I was mortified to find out that one of my daughter's friends (a male in his early twenties) opened up a cabinet in our bathroom (looking for a hand towel that I forgot to put out in my constant meno-fogginess) and saw a TWELVE pack of enemas!!!

Wonder what went through his mind....lol How embarassing ....lol

That reminds me of when I worked in a Pharmacy way back when. I was in charge of restocking over the counter items....one of which was the FLEET ENEMAs.

The next day the delivery man came in with the goods......I started sorting and stocking and when I saw the Fleet's I yelled to my boss "THE FLEET'S IN!!"



You really had to be there I guess....but he laughed.



And I'm too exhausted to explain how exhausted I am lately, much less 'splain about beauty routines. Or just survival routines.....gimme a halloween mask and roll me in neosporin and pain killers.