Well, it's that time of year again. The time when I begin to wonder how I made the leap from a fresh-faced, thin, young college girl to, er, well, THIS, in what seems like about 10 years max! In case any of you younger people don't realize it, our concept of time increases exponentially the older we get. As a kid, I can remember the time until the next great annual thing (Christmas, my birthday, out-of-school summers) was an eternity. Clocks & calendars changed at a snail's pace. I guess in my 20's time seemed about right. An 8 hour workday seemed about 8 hours. A 9 month pregnancy seemed like a bit more than 9 months (but that may be because the baby weighed just shy of 9 lbs). And the distance from one birthday to the next felt just like what a year should feel like.
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| Baby Martha...adorable, don't you think? |
But now! It seems like I just had a birthday a couple of months ago. And I know I just finished putting last year's Christmas decorations away a few weeks ago! (Well, that part could actually be true!) But still, you get my point.
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I'm about 8 on this Easter Sunday with my mom & sisters.
I like this photo because my older sister's glasses are so
nerdy & she is so ultra fashionable today! |
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1st grade Martha. Had color film been invented yet?
I still get those wispy strands when it's humid!
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I love my confidence in this photo! Probably about 12, I had no qualms
about wearing a bright red tank & Amelia Earhart haircut. |
As my body ages, my mind keeps feeling like I'm a cool young woman of about 28 (Do you hear that? That's the sound of my kids dying laughing!!) Yes, I was young once. I was cool once. I went to concerts. In the coolest summer of all for me (1976...the bicentennial year), I saw Elton John, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac & Paul McCartney and Wings. I had big Farrah Fawcett hair & bell bottom jeans. (I would share a photo from this summer as evidence, but my scanner is not working at the moment. I only have photos that were already in my computer for my parents' anniversary DVD)
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Probably Easter of '76 because I'm holding my neice who looks about 2.
Note the Fawcett-esque hairdo. |
I was wondering who in the celebrity world might be my same age. On the website http://www.celebrityagemachine.com/, I was able to find out that other people who are my age include Eddie Van Halen & David Lee Roth. (Rockers are definitely cool, although Van Halen is not a group I saw in concert.) Other people my age are beautiful (Chris Noth, Jimmy Smits), talented (Yo-Yo Ma & the late Steve Jobs), beautiful AND talented (Reba McEntire). Reba! Yes! She'll be my inspiration for someone who can be my age, acheive things, and look good doing it!
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In 1982, I'm a young mom with a practical 80's haircut
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As for celebs who aren't my age but share my birthday of Oct 16: there's Suzanne Somers, who's 9 years older, and Flea ,who's 7 years younger. There's a soap opera actress named Ellen Dolan who was born on the exact same date as me, but since she wasn't on All My Children, I am unfamiliar with her. (See last month's post.) Anyway, I can't identify with either the dumb blonde Chrissy Snow OR the older Suzanne Somers of Thigh Master fame.
And Flea?? Well, I'm cool enough to know how to use Wikipedida to find out who Flea is!
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I might have been thinner, younger & cooler once upon a time.
But this year is pretty great, too!! |
1 comment:
What a fun post!! Thanks! We have very similar feelings about the passage of time. Summers of childhood seemed L O N G, like a year long, though I was busy and having fun. Now a year is shorter than a summer of long ago. Still kind of feel 21. :)
Mary Hughes
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