About a month ago I met a lovely lady in church. I remarked to her that she looked very nice that day. She told me she was 92. I said she didn’t look a day over 75. I spoke the truth. I asked her what her secret was – Oil of Olay perhaps? She proceeded to tell me that she did facial exercises to keep her face looking young and promised to teach them to me. So there we were in the ladies room after church yesterday and she teaches me two exercises. The first one involves thrusting ones bottom chin out and holding for a count of 10. As I practiced she advised me to notice how this lifted the bosom and built muscles to support the breasts. I kept a straight face…for about 10 seconds. The next exercise involved holding the upper lip down and grimacing to build up the face muscles. Equally amusing but no bosom lifting on that one. As my mother would say, “I met the most interesting woman…” May I look so good at 92.
Anti-aging exercise
May 30, 2005 by thepracticalmystic
It was very nice meeting you today!
I can relate to you in this entry. It seems like so much of my time is wasted, but after the fact I feel a sense of accomplishment, or forfillment when I think about how the time was spent looking back on the matter. I mean, I’d never regret some of the most amazing times I’ve had doing absolutely nothing at all.
There’s been times that I’ve thought to myself… “I hope I never forget this.” A few times in particular but the one that comes to mind. I was in cleaning the bathroom and I turn to make eye contact with my daughter who was bent over trying to see what I was doing. I smiled at her and she started laughing, dipples and bouncy curls. I thought to myself… “I hope I remember her face just like this forever.” Maybe that don’t make any sense at all. My point is, at times I feel like I should be doing things more productive, but when I look back hours, days, years later I realize I was doing what was most important.