STEPPING IN PEE WON’T HURT YOU (Unless you don’t find it funny)

I stepped in some human pee today while in socks. Not my pee. Never leave someone’s hospital room on the trauma ward without your shoes on. Not even if you are just going to the nutrition room to get your friend a juice out of the community fridge. I’m sure that was in Nurse Jackie somewhere, but I watched it a while ago so… wet pee socks. C'est la vie.

I’m in Gainesville, Florida suddenly. My poor friend broke her ribs in 16 places as well as a scapula and her clavicle. I’m very happy to say she is doing really well and I would even use the word “chipper” to describe her mood, despite the removal of several gory tubes this afternoon. Wow. She is the toughest person I have ever met by quite a bit. I have said this of her for years. She's now in her 70s and actually getting tougher. She fell off a horse and got stepped on. Luckily for her she blacked out for the immediate pain part. I hope I black out if something like that happens to me. Yeesh! My friend is already ready to ride again. I may have to restrain her, if I even could.

I don’t talk about aging much because it never seems applicable? Am I delusional? I don’t feel older than 19 but I do get sore sometimes and perimenopause is my life (and my minimum security white-collar prison) at the moment. It’s just kinda surreal? But it’s no weirder than any other part of life… ? I’d say it’s about 80% less weird than puberty. That was a real mindfuck! Sometimes younger people are a little standoffish, like I freak them out a little? When that happens, which it rarely does, I just try to freak them out harder. It’s a cheap thrill and guilty pleasure. 

How do I stay in a place where I don’t feel I’m aging physically or mentally? I’d tell you but you won’t listen… What do you do to keep yourself vital and interested at any age? 

Also, Sari Botton has a GREAT Substack about this very thing called Oldster. You gotta check it out, you won’t be disappointed :)