Life is full of various lifestages – lifestages range from newborn infant to one breath away from death (whether it be as an extremely anciently aged senior citizen or a newborn baby who only lives a few seconds).
The “normal” progression of lifestages is considered newborn human to ancient human – at my age of 55, it used to be considered quite old … now it seems to be thought of as still middle age … I do not feel middle-aged … I feel at the beginnings of being a senior citizen. Why you might ask?
As I’ve aged, I have grown in so many ways from who I was even 5 years ago let alone 2 years ago. My viewpoint on so many things has changed – sometimes I feel as if I do not even recognize myself as the headstrong, reckless, carefree, adventurous, 20 year old I was so many years ago – I think before I leap these days (even though I still tend to leap even after thinking about it depending on the situation LOL) … and adventures are better if planned for comfort and what I like now instead of what I used to like and for what my body will tolerate now without pain or discomfort.
Comfortable shoes are one of my main goals in life these days, not fashionable high heels – my ankles turn wearing high heels now though I do still remember the days when I could run in a pair of high heels and not think twice about it – now I think I must have been nuts back then for risking a broken neck running in 4 or 5 inch stilletto high heels!
I bought a new pair of winter black Earth Shoes for work tonite at willy-wally-world – I had to stop & buy food so I wouldn’t starve to death til payday 
and noticed they had loafer type shoes in the comfortable Earth Shoes … the brown were too tight & uncomfortable even in the store but the black ones were comfy so those are the ones I bought. Part of me will miss the summer sandals but another part is looking forward to cooler weather and wearing loafer type shoes again.
I cannot wear my new shoes on the plane when I go to San Francisco next month – they have a metal buckle on them so I imagine those would not be a good choice – I still need to get some new blue jeans that fit me and a pair of tennie-runners for the trip but I found some new silk pajamas on sale cheap at tar-jet last week – no idea why it seemed so important to me to have new, cover me from head to toe type jammies for my trip but they are so fabulous and they have butterflies & dragonflies on them!
It’s not like anyone will see me in them except me … but it makes me feel fabulous just to have new silk jammies let alone to wear brand new silk jammies my first nite in SF next month! I have to remember to take my dragonfly thong slipper sandals I got for Christmas so I can use them as my house-shoes with my new jammies.
ROFL … I’m going to be all dressed up and cannot leave the room cuz it’s still jammies so no one will see me in them! Hmmm … maybe senility is creeping into my life too already? Ya think?
Okay … I think it is just my being excited to go on a “working” business trip for me, not an employer. This is my very first “self-employed” business trip! And yes, I’m still working a day job as a Technical Writer … but when I can retire from the corporate business world … I can still go on self-employed business trips … and it isn’t like I think my employer will ever send me anywhere …. most Technical Writers go no-where in the Corporate travel world though some do for much bigger corporations. I work for a fairly small company – a few more than 100 employees … so I do not forsee any employer-paid business trips in my future … though who knows … they might decide to get me some training for something that would be held somewhere else though.
Most training I’ve ever had has been at work or across town – I got to go to Dallas (from Houston) once for a week’s training several years ago. The one and only time I ever got to go anywhere outside of the town I live in for my employer.
It is nearly October – thoughts of Oktoberfest is creeping into conversations already and October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month too! What a combination … beer & breast cancer – well … I don’t drink beer but I would be thinking liquor if i were diagnosed with breast cancer so the two do have something in common after all!
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