Welcome to my world. An altered state of reality in which I sometimes feel as if I am the only one experiencing issues and situations that are ridiculous, funny, frustrating and thought provoking.
So my birthday was in August and I just wanna share some thoughts or pearls of wisdom as I chart a new course in this new decade.
They say life begins at forty which I can never really understand as what does that really means? That all those years before you were a foetus? You nane a live before? Was I hibernating throughout the previous decades. Smaddy explain it to me please.
Despite all the things we have to contend with in life (work, babies, men who are babies, maintaining a household etc) it has been proven that women outlive men and generally enjoy our golden years more.
Ignorance meets ghetto fabulous with the following random Christian names that people actually take bus or drive to register their offspring with. Back in the day we could accept that it was the poor registered nurses who messed up the kids’ names but unfortunately this no longer holds true. It is the parents themselves who put these ‘beast of burdens’ on their own children for reasons I have yet to fathom.
So the other day my friend Sancia tagged me in a Facebook post where a circa 1950s ad was making the rounds about how husbands should train up their wives to be good housekeepers. You and I both know that that was the era of female domesticity and if you couldn’t cook, wash or take care of a bunch of screaming brats, you were seen as deficient and not quite a woman. Praise God that those backwards days are gone….for the most part. Continue reading…