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Ever feel like your young hot self is slowly getting trapped in an aging 40+ body?
Yup, me too especially right now as I recover from a weekend of Birthday revelry. My 22 year old mind was saying GO while my newly minted 44 year old body was like WTF?
I definitely don’t feel like I thought a 44 would feel.
I know I don’t act like a 44 ought to and my 10yr old can attest to that.

I certainly hope that I don’t look like what I, as a 20-something, thought a 44 would look like.

I look around me and I’m surrounded by beautiful, healthy & well kept women of all ages who take pride in their appearance and great care in how they look and feel.

Yes most of whom are Russian and I know that I keep defaulting to my roots but let’s be real, what other ethnicity takes such pride in their appearance? Ok, Latino women are pretty close, I’ll give them that. And no it’s not vanity…well, maybe it is a little but we should all then be so vain.

Let’s go back to zero, shall we?
No matter your upbringing, you were most likely raised to have good manners, be a good person and take pride in your work and appearance. At what point does that last part go bye bye? Is it when you get married? have children? work crazy hours?…
There are always excuses and maybe that’s the difference between those who care and those who could care less. We who care make no excuses, we just do it because it’s in our DNA. We also do it for a very specific special person, ourselves. Not others…ourselves!
Going to the supermarket? How much effort does it take to put on a dab of lipstick.
Taking the kids to school? Ok, Lululemon is your BFF I get it but so too should be the tooth and hair brush.
Don’t know any better? Uh huh, good one. Ever heard of “the internet”?
Anywhooo, how did I get so way off topic?
Oh yeah, I’m tired and I’m old.
Bet she isn’t 44 but you know who is?