Posted by Jersey | Posted in Jersey | Posted on 02-12-2009
AGING…I’ve recently been introduced to what this word means and am in a boxing ring with it.  Let me explain…I was divorced 5 years ago and became single for the first time..yea first…I know..lets just say I’m a backwards kinda gal.  Before the single life I was married forever (since high school) and that’s really all I knew so becoming single was a HUGE adjustment…I will involve many other blogs about that later don’t worry. Anyway, so I was “25″ the last 5 years and hadn’t aged a bit. I was looking good feeling good and aging was the last thing on my mind. So now I’m struggling with seeing wrinkles and gaining weight and heaven forbid if I EVER see a grey hair. Let me tell you why “25″ came to a hault for me. A few weeks ago I got up one morning…mind you I’m NOT a morning person…not mean…just don’t speak to me. I looked in the mirror and saw a couple wrinkles for the first time.
I mean they coulda been there for years but I JUST noticed them. I freaked!! Literally! Immediately I hit the web and started to google (googling is my favorite invention ever btw). I had to find whatever I could to make it stop no matter what the cost! I thought to myself.. I will just get a second job…whatever. Needless to say I’ve signed up with every auto e-mail I could find that I thought would benefit me thru this crisis. Oh AND I’ve joined a bootcamp (fitness program) and gym so that I can have a bod like Jennifer Aniston by spring (this year I’m gonna do it!).  I’m also trying some exepensive wrinkle oil that was purchased from a Dr in some other country that I’m convinced will reverse my youth…which probably will make me broke first. Luckily for them they’ve managed to convince me everytime I look in the mirror I see one less wrinkle. Let me just say that I’m open for ANY suggestions that will put the aging process to a stop. While surfing the web for all the beauty tips I could find I came across one site that I absolutely am addicted to and stalk daily…..www.glamour.com.  They have given the BEST advice and tips to a frazzled anti-aging/anti-morning woman in her 30’s they could ever imagine. The stress still lingers but they’ve contributed to making me feel young again. I can’t say I’m 25 again but late 20’s early 30’s I’m happy with. S000 what made me want to share this with you is the fact that earlier tonight I went thru a beauty process.  Now let me just make this clear, this is not a daily thing I do or anything but I had to multitask all of my beauty rituals and try to expedite the processes because I just got wind that a certain someone is going to be in town this weekend. SO this was merely for the fact that I HAVE to be Hot AND Irrisistable by the weekend. My beauty process included: bootcamp which about killed me but I’m pretty sure I lost about 5-10 lbs doing it….oh n the Smart One microwave dinner helped with that, shopped for a new curling iron…my purchase happened to be that new one that spins as you curl (I’ll let you know how that goes), went thru a whole conditioning treatment for my hair which involved Olive Oil and a nightly leave-in conditioner (now if only I can convince my hair lady a/k/a best friend to dye my blonde hair to black to look like Bella from New Moon like I’ve been begging…I’m blaming Glamour…they say it’s the new “in”) , then I had to scrub all the dry skin off my body with some new body scrub I invested in so that when I put my sunless lotion on it goes on smooth and even. But before that the green mask on the face had to be left on..oh..for I think 20 mins but I figure an extra 20 would speed things up.  Anxious to see in the morning…..let’s just hope I wake up on the right side of the bed.  OMG I just looked at the clock aaannnd hmmmm sleep is another important beauty regimine so rather than talk about it I’m just gonna say goodnight….
I know I know….You’re wondering if I will write about that certain someone after the weekend and IF I pulled off the hotness….you should probably keep tuned in to find out 
Too funny Jersey…I too deal with the new looking older thing as well. What happened in the last 3 years or so? I looked under 30 just a couple years ago! I am thankful to say that at my upper 30 something years I am blessed not to have as many wrinkles as I SHOULD have by now. I am attributing that to limiting my smoking over the years…but unfortunately until the anti-smoking laws came along (I dont bother smoking anymore because of them) I smoked in the bars when out with friends way too often when I never really did it before! I have come to realize I may have done the most damage to my skin in just the last couple years! Yikes!
One of the best arguments to quitting smoking is what it will do to your skin instead of what it will do to your lungs. People cant see their lungs but they CAN see their skin. If you havent yet, QUIT SMOKING NOW! Dont worry about expensive creams and oils, sorry to say it but aside from a facelift you are screwed….once they are there I dont think they go away otherwise every older woman with a few extra dollars would be walking around with creamy wrinkle free faces! Really.
Embrace how absolutely beautiful you are and thank God for the Puma/Cougar movement! LOL!!! As for the boot camp….kudos chica….I walked for 20 minutes yesterday and called it a day. But at least I did something.
Aging is inevitable and as much as we denied it when we were younger thinking it would never happen to us….well, here it is! It DOES happen and how we deal with it is what will keep us young…if we stress about it, we will look older….if we embrace our intelligence and experience and seasoned beauty we can woo anyone which is exactly what I intend on doing. I am SO much better in my 30’s at EVERYTHING compared to my 20’s. The only thing I had back then was a firmer bod and less wrinkles but overall, I am fabulous now and only getting better….believe that about yourself too because it is OH SO TRUE!!!
Oh, and have fun this weekend!
Well Jersey it looks as though I might need to be going to the gym with you…in that now my new breast which I love btw…are the firmest things on my body!!! This operation might just get my butt into gear to getting toned up!!!