Every now and then I forget that I am now elderly passing my teen years, and no longer Super Woman.
This was one of those days.
I had big plans.
But first,
I needed to get a fasting blood test.
No, I am not sick. At least I don’t think so. I don’t remember Super Woman ever having a sick day do you?
The test is in preparation for an upcoming yearly physical. An aging body (even a super body) needs a check up now and then.
So a visit to Dracula down at the lab was first priority.
My Super Woman To Do List looked like this:
- Pre-Dawn – Laundry and misc. household chores.
- 8:30 AM – Get fasting blood test. Argh!
3. Pick up cleaning.
4. Drop off donation bag to Habitat.
5. Get gas before car stops without braking.
6. Farmers’ Market – Healthy Veggies to maintain “super” status.
7. Pet store – Food for Super-Dog-Rozie!
8. Vet – Pick up Dog’s anti-anxiety pills and cancel teeth.
9. Get home by 10 AM for house and window cleaning.
Zip! I was up at 6 AM.
Did two loads of laundry, dried, folded and put away. How super can a woman get?
Fixed Rozie-the-Dog’s breakfast.
- Unloaded dishwasher. Yes, I know how lucky I am and they didn’t have dishwashers 100 years ago.
- Laid out supplies for window washing and house cleaning. This is harder than it sounds.
- Dressed. (At my age, dressing can be counted as a chore).
- Got list, keys, purse, and body into the car! Off and running at 8:30 AM!
- Gassed up en route and dropped off the donations. Kudos please!
- Dracula took the blood and Super Woman was still on a roll!
- Next the vet – got Rozie’s pills and “cancelled teeth.” Oh, I neglected to explain Rozie was due for a teeth cleaning but Super Woman and Super Man backed out. The dog is old. She’s 14. They said she could not have breakfast. There would be anesthesia. How could we do that to her? Hence – “cancelled teeth.”
- Pet store and cleaners were still closed at 9:00AM. Tomorrow is another day.
- People prescription – Check.
- Farmer’s Market – Forgot and drove on by.
- Super Woman flagging – not trying to stop cars or entice strangers – flagging as in failing.
- Home.
- Breakfast.
- Nap.
10 AM – Super Woman is exhausted.
Remainder of the Day: Unproductive
End of Super Woman’s Old Age Adventure Story
No!! I can’t imagine that! It does suck being older, doesn’t it? I told my cousin the other day that I have time to do the things I want, but I don’t have the energy anymore. He’s a few years younger than me, but understood exactly what I meant.
Nancy
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You know, you are just hilarious and very talented!
“Super Woman’s Old Age Adventure Stor(ies).”
This should be a column in a national publication.
It is just simply great and super creative and very funny.
Bravo~
How many times have I said this to you?
You know it’s true.
Kudos
too!
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Hilarious. So glad I’m not the only one, although your brain is still super-woman clever at putting posts together 🙂 Maybe we move from Super to Senile Woman?
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Hahahaha! When I read the list my thought was “cleaning? I would need a nap” Do you even know how happy you made me…..lol
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This is the post that needs to be shown to every man in the world to prove that we do way more than them in a day!!! 🙂 You are super woman!!
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This is true. This is very true! 🙂
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This may be my mission now – to encourage happiness via naps! Love your reaction. 🙂
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Sounds to me like Super Woman already put in a full day by 10 a.m. hence the nap was sooooo warranted. This Super Woman here reading your blog also finds my daily plans are bigger than my stamina. Oh well, as Scarlet O’Hara proclaimed, “tomorrow’s another day!”
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Oh I love your new title – Senile Woman! Next post will be named Adventures of Senile Woman – Forgotten Mysteries!
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You are a blogging friend worthy of kudos yourself Cindy. We are a fabulously creative team. Thanks so much for your unflagging encouragement. 🙂 ~Dor
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Very rare for the young to understand the limitations of creeping age. Nice to have such a cousin. 🙂
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Ha! I could have written this – almost too true to be funny BUT we do need to be able to laugh at ourselves.
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Sounds like my kind of day especially the nap part. We did a house tour on Sunday. Was home by 2:30 and napping by 3. I felt like I was run over by a truck. I do like the Adventures of a Senile Woman. That is so fun.
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I’m on lunch break at work. I am super tired after reading your story. I think I may crawl under my desk and nap now. 😉
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I was curious about the “cancel teeth” note; glad you explained it! Sometimes I make a list if I have lots of “chores”. Thankfully, not many days that busy.
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At this age we should not have to work all day anymore! I clean less and less these days. Great post! I haven’t been posting or reading the blogs I follow lately but hope to get back to normal soon. I have missed your humor. Hope all is well with you.
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I wondered how you go about canceling teeth. I have a few I would like to cancel. Thanks for clarifying!
But how could you forget the vegies! I’m so disappointed.
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I am a Super Woman too only somehow today I missed my nap I must pace myself better 🙂
Dug 60 perennials up and potted, did sheets and hung on line to dry, played with dog 🙂 Watered garden and new plants. Sat on lounge chair with hope of a nap and some sun not good to mix them at my age 🙂 JT got a new kids ball last night so sleep never came so she saved me from seeing the skin doctor.
Brought in laundry made a salad for me and supper for JT Ron slept on couch hey what did he do all day that he got a NAP lol oh he is 4 yrs older and went detecting the beach till 2AM
So yes you are a super woman and I am one in training 🙂
HUGS
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I can’t keep up with you…..
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A mental block on the veggie stop. There’s another farmer’s market on Sat., so I will hit the greens then. Yep, you can cancel teeth and I know if Rozie heard us debating the issue she was greatly gratified. 🙂
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OH yes you can 🙂
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I have missed you too. I hope you are o.k. Thanks so much for checking in to my blog. I am too busy for June. Isn’t summer supposed to be filled with “lazy days?”
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I am a great list maker who walks out without the list! It’s embarrassing because then I have to call my husband to read the list to me over the phone. 🙂
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This may be very beneficial debbeedoodles – a quiet dark place to snooze during a work day. Wish I had thought of that way back when. 🙂
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That truck you mention has come through here many times! 🙂 I am considering doing a Senile Woman series but then it sounds so demeaning to actual sufferers (maybe myself included). On the other hand, I am giggling at the idea. Hmmmmmm! Thanks for the dilemma. 🙂 ~Dor
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I try laughing at myself between naps but the naps takes over. 🙂
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I find myself repeating Scarlet’s refrain on a daily basis! Glad we share daily plans that are “bigger than our stamina” mama! In the grand scheme of things, how important is one postponed chore anyway? 🙂 “I’ll think about that tomorrow.” 🙂
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You ARE a super woman, Dor! For me, laundry, cleaning house, running errands, cleaning bathrooms are done each on separate days! And if I’m writing a new blog post, my day’s shot! You did good, girl!
~Liz
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That’s the right way to do it shofar – a different goal for each day. They used to do that in the old olden days. Washing Monday, Baking Tuesday, etc. Doubt they had time for naps though. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by. Which day was it?
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Really. At that age, she deserves a pass!
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Which day for what?
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I saw that list, and then to be done by 10:00 a.m. Ha! In my case, they’d still be trying to draw blood…Maybe I need to go to that Dracula place.
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Amen, my blogging sister, amen!! 😀
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I call them all Dracula, but this technician was GOOD! 🙂
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You are still my heroine! I couldn’t make the 6 A.M. wake up call!
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