I look a mess and I’m feeling very old. This FaceTime business is a nightmare – my son phoned when they’d landed in Melbourne last night and I rushed in to sit on the sofa next to my daughter so that we could chat together. Mistake number one was obviously to put my face ANYWHERE near hers. Honestly not only did I look like a raisin compared to her but I also looked as if we had the “Fat Booth” app on by accident (if you haven’t got this app then get it – it’s hilarious) – all double chins and wrinkly bits so I tried to sit up and jut my jaw out but then I just looked odd and a little bit sad because obviously the call was all about him and I shouldn’t be worrying what I looked like…then I had to move again because my new improved secret angle (or so I thought) meant I looked as if I had the biggest nostrils in the world). Lighting didn’t help. This is not good at all. I am going to have to spend a fortune booking in makeup artists and getting lighting engineers in and maybe sound people, not sure so that I can look my best on video.
I hope I’m not too old to get into all this new modern technology. I am of the age where photographs released of artists had to be bought and approved and double approved and video footage – OMG it required weeks of makeup and hair and editing and soft lighting and now we just have to be natural and accept what we look like because the kids are all doing it……
Anyway, I also have a black eye which didn’t help – I somehow managed to accidentally bump my eyelid in the night. Hardly hurt at all at the time. But I woke up to find a vast purple bruise – this growing old business is rubbish. I bet it takes about three weeks to go away. During our meal last night my daughter said “mum, you have the worst eye makeup on I have ever seen – why have you only put purple eye shadow on one eye?”. “WELL AT LEAST I DON’T HAVE MY TROUSERS ON BACK TO FRONT” I told her as if that was meant to make her feel better (see post below about teaching with back to front clothes on yesterday).
Anyway, it’s good, at times like these to quote quotes about old people – my mother always does that – “whats the alternative?” sort of stuff:-
“Don’t regret growing older; it is a privilege denied to many”.
So true. Especially in view of the fact that I am meeting up with an old friend tonight whose husband died last year – aged 50. So sad.
Also, for those of you who think I’m being serious about the FaceTime calls….don’t worry I am fully aware that the one thing I am truly grateful for (apart from that he’s arrived still in one piece) is that he wants to call me. Long may it last.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:38 am
So happy your son arrived ok… I’m so jealous of his adventures!! Talking of video phoning, I was horrified when my mum and I video skyped for the first time the other day to find we had an almost identical haircut AND I have started finding gray hairs and lines in the wrong places. Sadly it seems youth (would say beauty but I’m not sure that applies here) doesn’t last all that long for some. So, I guess I’m gonna have to embrace getting old, which is certainly not helped by my bf who is a year younger and is still trying to convince himself he’s still 19…
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Ha ha – looking like your mum – nothing worse!! Lx
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:14 pm
I want to grow old enough to see my great-great grandchildren. I don’t know what I’ll look like, but, hey – some fool decided you can’t have it all, so I’ll just take age and not looks.
Glad your son is safe. x
February 23rd, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Video chatting is a wonderful thing, but I prefer to turn off the video on my side. I guess that’s not an option with Face Time. Even skyping with a girlfriend, I stop and think whether I want her to see me or not at this particular moment in time. And it’s not because of crazy vanity. It’s more a privacy thing and it’s about having a say about your own image. Plus, it doesn’t help the conversation. Faces distract, especially when distorted. I totally understand that you want to see him, of course – it’s a great thing for the parents. Tough one. Don’t let it upset you, though.
You are the coolest mom of a great guy. I can’t get over the fact that he is traveling with his girlfriend and how thoughtful and considerate he is when it comes to her. So many boys are too selfish to think of anyone else at this stage. They want to “drink it all in” all by themselves, as if getting to travel around the world carefree were their God given right, and for this purpose usually prefer to be “unshackled”, if you know what I mean.
Of course it’s mostly these guys who get in trouble.
February 23rd, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Aaah. Yes. But. He is unfortunately going to be meeting up with mates in Thailand which is the bit I’m dreading…..Lx
February 24th, 2012 at 8:49 am
You look wonderful, sexy as hell, you daft bat!
February 24th, 2012 at 9:07 am
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February 24th, 2012 at 11:07 am
My full sympathies.. I did Face time with a girlfriend in Canada the other day.. big mistake.. I spent the whole call completely distracted at how bloody awful (and old) I looked. Only consolation was that she looked as dreadful as I did!
Sticking to good old fashioned telephone from now on..
BM x