<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Paper Dolls for Boys]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://paperdollsforboys.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[twlowenstein]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://paperdollsforboys.wordpress.com/author/twlowenstein/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Diagnosis:  Old]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>I will be turning 39 in late summer.  I <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">am</span> was not freaked out about this.</p>
<p>Today I went in for a quick visit to my doctor and was seen by the new PA.  She was great, really good at her job.    Have I written how my husband and I categorize our doctors into two groups?   Those we&#8217;d like to grab a beer with and those we most certainly would not.       So the first round would be on me.  But as I&#8217;m sitting there IT hits me.  She is younger than me.  I am older than she is.  It was shocking.  It used to be all the PAs were nice older ladies, you know &#8211; the age I am now (and they <em>have</em> all been female, before you jump in on the gender comments) and then they were my contemporaries (truth be told I am only realizing this in retrospect) and now, today, I had a YOUNGIN&#8217; dispensing help.  There was no denying it.  Maybe you are all rolling your eyes.  But I am slow to pick up these things.  It took me years, really years, and many many horrible shows, to realize that MTV was no longer about me.  It stung a little when I came to understand that I just wasn&#8217;t their demographic anymore.  I still watch Real World.  I&#8217;ve been a fan of the RW since the get go (Hi Heather!  Love you Norman!).  But it&#8217;s not my MTV anymore.  TLC and HGTV have a  firm hold of my big white tuckus.</p>
<p>I kind of feel the same way about the &#8220;Craft Revolution&#8221; happening.  I appreciate it, and I also envy it.  Like I missed it.  I would have loved to been involved in the <strong><a href="http://www.churchofcraft.org/church/mission.html">Church of Craft</a> </strong>pre-family but if I have any free time these days it&#8217;s most likely spent worshiping at the church of nap.  I am taking steps, this blog being one of them, to actually create more.  I am hoping to be in a craft group of really amazing women this fall.  I long for that connection, to learn from watching, to laugh, to share and to have some time away from the family that feeds my soul.  &#8220;Feeds my soul&#8221;  most definitely <em>not</em> on the punk rock band name list.</p>
<p>This photo has no real connection to anything I am saying but A) I don&#8217;t like a post without photos and B) they ARE old and C)  I did get 3 for 30 cents so I&#8217;m going to brag.  And come to think of it, if MTV had a <strong>thrift store throw down</strong> show, I would totally hold my own.  Hell, I&#8217;m being modest.  I would kick some young ASS.</p>
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