Amber, In my mind you have just turned into the most athlectic person ever. I am so impressed you were able to have fun at the inflatables and want to go again. I went on one of these inflatable castles as part of an art installation a few weeks ago and I was very grateful when a little child arrived to take over after less than two minutes jumping because it was crazy exhausting. One minute jumping on this thing felt like an entire hour of HIIT workout. Kudos to you! And I wish you a great time embarrasing Max at the next birthday party. I am sure one day he will consider jumping with you as core memories with his cool Mum!
To be fair, it’s been a while since I was actually allowed to take part in the bouncing, so I can’t claim I’d have had the same experience with it the second time! I’m just hoping Max will allow me to find out at some point 😆
I think the ageism that is going on lately, especially towards "older" women, is quite ridiculous. I've seen items of clothing that were around for decades (and have been "uncool" for years) suddenly being gate kept by "the youth" (or at least, the chronically online kind). We're talking about things like bucket hats (still can't wrap my head around the fact they've been considered "cool"), wide leg jeans, and now sneakers, apparently. I swear I've been reading "mutton as lamb" so much lately, directed at women over 30 who dared to wear trendy sneakers/boots. Because how dare we want to... Be fashionable? Comfortable?
The moment you're over 30 people start treating you like you're a ticking bomb: "wear this but not that", and worry constantly about being dressed either "too frumpy&oldish or too hip&youthful", because people are ready to laugh at you at every corner (or every chronically-online corner, anyway. Can't imagine real-life corners being filled with people not capable of minding their own business).
Yeah, I do think social media probably has a lot to do with it, especially on TikTok, where people will say things just to get views/be controversial. I'm not sure people in 'real life' actually pay much attention to what anyone else is wearing - or that's what I tell myself, anyway!
Why is it that parents are embarrassing but grandparents aren’t? When my mum was 15, in 1963, she and her friend were watching one of those 60s shows when in walked her dad. He proceeded to do the twist, saying how much he liked that song. My mum was mortified! Years later he came out of the bathroom having washed his hair, towelled it into spikes and said ‘Emily, look, I’m a punk rocker!’ Then pretended to pogo. I thought it was brilliant. But when my own father said he liked punk and wished he could’ve been one but he was ten years too old I was NOT amused at all.
Amber, In my mind you have just turned into the most athlectic person ever. I am so impressed you were able to have fun at the inflatables and want to go again. I went on one of these inflatable castles as part of an art installation a few weeks ago and I was very grateful when a little child arrived to take over after less than two minutes jumping because it was crazy exhausting. One minute jumping on this thing felt like an entire hour of HIIT workout. Kudos to you! And I wish you a great time embarrasing Max at the next birthday party. I am sure one day he will consider jumping with you as core memories with his cool Mum!
To be fair, it’s been a while since I was actually allowed to take part in the bouncing, so I can’t claim I’d have had the same experience with it the second time! I’m just hoping Max will allow me to find out at some point 😆
I think the ageism that is going on lately, especially towards "older" women, is quite ridiculous. I've seen items of clothing that were around for decades (and have been "uncool" for years) suddenly being gate kept by "the youth" (or at least, the chronically online kind). We're talking about things like bucket hats (still can't wrap my head around the fact they've been considered "cool"), wide leg jeans, and now sneakers, apparently. I swear I've been reading "mutton as lamb" so much lately, directed at women over 30 who dared to wear trendy sneakers/boots. Because how dare we want to... Be fashionable? Comfortable?
The moment you're over 30 people start treating you like you're a ticking bomb: "wear this but not that", and worry constantly about being dressed either "too frumpy&oldish or too hip&youthful", because people are ready to laugh at you at every corner (or every chronically-online corner, anyway. Can't imagine real-life corners being filled with people not capable of minding their own business).
Yeah, I do think social media probably has a lot to do with it, especially on TikTok, where people will say things just to get views/be controversial. I'm not sure people in 'real life' actually pay much attention to what anyone else is wearing - or that's what I tell myself, anyway!
Why is it that parents are embarrassing but grandparents aren’t? When my mum was 15, in 1963, she and her friend were watching one of those 60s shows when in walked her dad. He proceeded to do the twist, saying how much he liked that song. My mum was mortified! Years later he came out of the bathroom having washed his hair, towelled it into spikes and said ‘Emily, look, I’m a punk rocker!’ Then pretended to pogo. I thought it was brilliant. But when my own father said he liked punk and wished he could’ve been one but he was ten years too old I was NOT amused at all.