When did my ears grow this long! ! !

Small post but carrying on with the whining about aging.....I swear my ears have grown longer...and so has my nose...now I know faces cave in at a certain age so your nose sticks out more but I, smart girl that I am....have eaten to excess just to prevent this very problem....lol.
So...of course with everything nice and plumped out I thought I just might beat it. It lasted o.k. in the 40's and even my 50's to say...55. Then came the slow slide....everything has been slipping downwards....I am exercising like a fiend and now all my bones which I know are there someplace...hurt hard....oh well..I am paying for my former sins and ommissions. My mother never told me about all the little creepy things that happen when you age...although she did tell me once her armpit hairs disappeared.....I think I found them...on my chin!

I'm half way to my goal - Yes! ! !

I am now half way to my goal of saving enough money for the year and being able to take off in October. YES! I am having a harder time of convincing my daughters I will be just fine...the look of angst on their faces as I describe my plans must be what my face looked like through their teenage years..... I am walking five kilometers every day....power walking...tried to jog but my knees start to hurt so the power walking seems to be doing the trick. The stamina is building up little by little. Don't like the physical changes age brings with it but love the mental outlook and the feeling of release one has when you look back and see you made it thus far. Most of the things you worried about either didn't come true or did come true and you came through it. Gives a person a whole new perspective!

Love Mexico and the people of Mexico. My next step is to find a road worthy vehicle. This will be my biggest challenge....or perhaps I need to call it a "miracle" considering my budget. But I have faith there is an old camperized van out there that has not travelled very far and is sitting it out right now wishing she could be driving down some highway with a somewhat eccentric old thing at the wheel.

Bye for now. Lunch time is over.

Who has shoes???

57 going on 58....who is that oldish looking woman staring at me in the mirror...helloooo...where's Rosalie?????

I've decided both in the fall of my life and the fall of this year....to do a daring thing. Going to sell my few things...buy an older camperized van and just go for a year. I will have to live on a shoestring really.....however I was blessed to be able to do some work in Mexico several times as well as Guatemala and have learned the difference between what we want and what we truly need. Of course I want to go in a new C Class motorhome with a pack of money but if I work and wait for that....I'll be far too ancient to enjoy myself. So I have challenged myself in several ways to get ready for this adventure....am exercising so I can walk and hike without too much difficulty........ brushing up on my Spanish and trying to mentally give myself permission to do this thing.

Material things have not influenced many of my major choices and if I had to choose between a thing and an experience...the experience would always win out...I haven't changed.