With so much discussion about turning 30 and so many (too many to link) of you having babies and such, it has drawn in sharp relief the inescapable fact that I am biologically old enough to have given birth to the whole lot of you. OK, well most of you anyway (the exceptions shall remain nameless, of course). In any case, I usually try to avoid acting my age, but the effort has become futile of late. So today I'm coming out: I'm 44 and I think I'm having a midlife crisis. The good thing about this is that if you do the math, having a midlife crisis at 44 means you've still got a long way to keep going, baby. Granted you all have entire decades ahead of you before you have to worry about this, but I still feel it's my duty to prepare you for what lies ahead, Forewarned is forearmed. Or something like that. Here's a short guide to the upsides and the downsides of middle age: Downsides first: Midlife crises are a sexist phenomenon. Cases in point: Harrison Ford...
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I did bring home a reindeer horn keychain though.
Just because it was made in Finland and not China and isn't something readily available at Wal-Mart.
I hear ya on the jet lag. Going over to England was murder on my oldest son. He was dead to the world for the firt 24 hours. He literally slept all day and all night long...woke up the second day, like nothing had happened.
azucar--It's coming. And it's good--better than I ever expected (but of course I'm not naive enough to believe for one second it will last).
But I got a little distracted by one of today's headlines...
Going out you run on pure adrenalin and it's not to bad. Coming home it all catches up with you and the worst part is hitting the wall at work at about 3pm (we both went back to work the very next day) because it's like midnight in the time zone you're used to.
I heard that staying up all night the night you leave and then knocking yourself out with a Tylenol pm on the trans-Atlantic flight was a good idea. But that was from a 20-year-old. All-nighters were nothing when we were 20.
I would suggest eye-shades, ear plugs and a neck pillow, resting what you can, and waiting to knock yourself out till bedtime when you get home. That way it's a little easier to avoid waking up at midnight or so because you think it's nine in the morning. Try to do something active the last part of the afternoon and early evening and it will help you make it till a normal bedtime.
Good luck! You'll have a blast!