Goddamn it, I'm getting old...

[Lauri D]

So it's Thursday night. Much earlier today, my friend Troy rang me up to tell me that one of my favorite DJ's, Charles Feelgood, would be spinning at a club right 'round the corner from my house. Yeah bay-bee! :djparty:

So the end of the day arrives, I run errands after work and drag my ass home. We're not slated to cruise over there 'til about 10:30, so I figure I've got plenty of time to chill, do some household chores, surf the internet and refresh myself to jump in the shower and get fixed up by then.

By 9:30 it becomes apparent to me that there is NO WAY IN HELL I have the energy to do this. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, sounds better to me than just lying on the couch in my comfy clothes with my laptop, chillin' with the Dempster and maybe one or two cold brews, and getting a good solid night's sleep for work tomorrow. :yawn:

What the frick? I am seriously perturbed by my inability to motivate for ONE NIGHT to see one of my very VERY favorite DJ's, less than 2 miles from home. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak - should I be concerned about this lack of get-up-and-go? :(

[Petra]

Nah, I wouldn't be concerned about it.

:oldman:

:wink:


(We need a female one o'dem smilies)

[beyelzu]

I find myself too tired to go out sometimes as well. My friends who are all like 5 yrs younger than me and either work at night or are in college make fun of me for going to sleep before 2.


bastards.


of course, as of late, I work late so when next I go up to the atl area I will be primed to drink them into the ground.

[LadyXoc]

You're not old, it's the um...change in the season. You're feeling a natural urge to, er...hibernate!

[Petra]

Who wants to bet she went to the gig?

/me lays a fiver on the table

[Brimshack]

So it's Thursday night. Much earlier today, my friend Troy rang me up to tell me that one of my favorite DJ's, Charles Feelgood, would be spinning at a club right 'round the corner from my house. Yeah bay-bee! :djparty:

So the end of the day arrives, I run errands after work and drag my ass home. We're not slated to cruise over there 'til about 10:30, so I figure I've got plenty of time to chill, do some household chores, surf the internet and refresh myself to jump in the shower and get fixed up by then.

By 9:30 it becomes apparent to me that there is NO WAY IN HELL I have the energy to do this. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, sounds better to me than just lying on the couch in my comfy clothes with my laptop, chillin' with the Dempster and maybe one or two cold brews, and getting a good solid night's sleep for work tomorrow. :yawn:

What the frick? I am seriously perturbed by my inability to motivate for ONE NIGHT to see one of my very VERY favorite DJ's, less than 2 miles from home. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak - should I be concerned about this lack of get-up-and-go? :(

Well now, don't hang up your pumps yet Grannie. I spect you still got some spunk in yer kiester, ...even if it is settin on the couch. I say when the TV show becomes reruns of "Golden Girls" or "Touched by an Angel", your dog becomes a toy poodle named "Fifi" and the brews become Hot Cocoa or a nice camamile tea, THEN you have cause to worry.

[Dingfod]

Spunk in her kiester? Sounds pornographic.

[Brimshack]

I can't help it. I love these older women...

[Farren]

Prolly 'cos you can think of more things you'd like to do at home with them.

[viscousmemories]

I say when the TV show becomes reruns of "Golden Girls" or "Touched by an Angel", your dog becomes a toy poodle named "Fifi" and the brews become Hot Cocoa or a nice camamile tea, THEN you have cause to worry.
Shit. I knew I was on my way to becoming an old woman. :glare:

[godfry n. glad]

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak - should I be concerned about this lack of get-up-and-go? :(

Huh? Whadya say? Speak up!

Uh...I forget. What were we talking about? Oh, yeah...

Hey... My get-up-and-go got up and went years ago.

Starting at about 35, the willingness to stay up late and party hardy waned. By my 40th birthday, I noticed that all my age cohorts packed up and went home and parties ended well before 11 pm. I could barely make it to midnight on New Year's Eve and I went to bed immediately after noise-making at midnight. Last year, I had nobody to even celebrate it with, so I was fast asleep by 9 pm.

Welcome to Rancho Raisin.

Anybody seen my tri-focal spectacles? I thought I laid them down in here somewhere.

godfry n. ageezer

[dave_a]

What the frick? I am seriously perturbed by my inability to motivate for ONE NIGHT to see one of my very VERY favorite DJ's, less than 2 miles from home. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak - should I be concerned about this lack of get-up-and-go? :(

Dunno, I get the impression that you are much more of a social, go outer than I am. For me my party into the night days ended in my mid/late 20s.

Some of the more extraverted party animals I knew kept it up for a bit longer, but by the 30s I didn't know anyone who hasn't cut waaaaayyyy back on it.

I don't think you have kids (right?) and you are single so I think that can extend the party days longer, but still, at some point I think we all just slow down.

Doesn't mean we are one foot in the grave just yet, it's just what happens.

[viscousmemories]

Seriously I think it's just a phase. I understand there are 60 yr. old's with more get up and go than I've ever had. I've always been a homebody, and if beer and food came out of the faucet I probably wouldn't have left my house in my 20's. Just 'cause you're going through a period (be it a night, week or year) when you don't have the energy to party all night doesn't mean it's a permanent change in your metabolism. I wouldn't think, anyway.

[godfry n. glad]

Who wants to bet she went to the gig?

* lunachick lays a fiver on the table

I'll bet she didn't. I'll take that fiver.

godfry

[pescifish]

:oldman:
(We need a female one o'dem smilies)Who says that's not an old woman? Smartass hormones!

[Cool Hand]

Yeah, what Dantonac said. It happens to nearly all of us. I've known some that continued to go to clubs regularly into their late 30s and even 40s, but frankly, I find that kind of pathetic.

I'm where Dantonac is now, and the only going to bars I do now is to hear a band or to listen to a good blues jam from time to time (translation--a few times a year). The late night dancing and trying to pick up sweet young things just doesn't hold much appeal anymore. I no longer feel like a loser when I don't have plans for the weekend.

Does that mean I'm a stick in the mud? Nope. It just means I have different tastes and priorities than I did as a young buck. No biggie.

Cool Hand

[Lauri D]

Thanks for the reassurances and votes of confidence, friends. :super:

After going to bed around 12:30 and waking up quite refreshed this morning er... speaking of which, luna, I think you owe godfry a fiver... :tiptoe: - I have come to the conclusion that I was mostly suffering from sleep deprivation. My recently departed house-guest for the past two months has, shall we say, unusual sleeping patterns and therefore it's been a while since I've been on my normal weekday sleep schedule. I think I'm just working off a defecit or something.

[Socratoad]

You getting old. The only cheer I can gain from this is that using the ratio factor you will eventually get old enough for me, providing that I am able to hang on that long.

Lets' see when I am one hundred and ten no one will whisper behind their hands when we appear arm in arm in the clubs.

[JoeP]

- I have come to the conclusion that I was mostly suffering from sleep deprivation. My recently departed house-guest for the past two months has, shall we say, unusual sleeping patterns and therefore it's been a while since I've been on my normal weekday sleep schedule. I think I'm just working off a defecit or something.
Yay! You're not getting old! And nor am I ... :pinocchio

[Lauri D]

You getting old. The only cheer I can gain from this is that using the ratio factor you will eventually get old enough for me, providing that I am able to hang on that long.

Lets' see when I am one hundred and ten no one will whisper behind their hands when we appear arm in arm in the clubs.
:kiss: Well in that case, maybe I don't mind getting old so much... :wink:

[Roland98]

Lauri, I'm younger than you and much more apathetic about going out. For my reunion, we were all psyched to go to a club and dance, and then ended up just hanging out at the pool hall and shooting the shit until 3AM. All of us--we just collectively suck, I suppose. And a few weeks back when I did finally make it to a club, I had too much of the "been there, done that" attitude, and realized I'd much rather be home with a book (or my computer, how sad). I dunno, maybe part of it is just (*gulp*) growing up.

[beyelzu]

Lauri,


just to let you know that it is possible to rely on experience and planning to keep up with the children.


http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8641#post8641


I even made it through work without vomitting or bitching too much.

[Brimshack]

Don't worry girls, I'm sure there is someone out there just dying to find a new bridge partner.

...or perhaps an exciting game of Majhong?

:P

[Shake]

I started feeling like an old man in my later 20s, especially when most of the crowd in the club was college age or younger. Then at 30, I became a parent, so midnight is pretty late for me now, and sleeping in means 8 or 8:30.

'Course, I never was real big on the club scene ... unless there was some good live music.

[Dlanod]

You kids don't know old!

Old is when you are defending someone on the Ultimate Frisbee field and discover that you used to babysit their mother when you where fifteen! Ouch.

- Gramps

[godfry n. glad]

You kids don't know old!

Old is when you are defending someone on the Ultimate Frisbee field and discover that you used to babysit their mother when you where fifteen! Ouch.

- Gramps

How about finding out that the young woman you're interested in is the daughter of your younger brother's schoolboy best friend? Ouch.