{"id":1459,"date":"2008-02-09T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2008\/02\/whose-idea-of-a-sick-joke-is-this.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T20:57:15","slug":"whose-idea-of-a-sick-joke-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2008\/02\/whose-idea-of-a-sick-joke-is-this.html","title":{"rendered":"Whose Idea of a Sick Joke Is This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>For the last three days, I\u2019ve gotten emails from a group called \u201cOver forty and single\u201d wanting me to join their dating service.  I have no idea how they found me, but I have a few things to point out:<br>1. Married, not interested in dating since I have a seriously hot husband, thank you very much<br>2. Even if I was single, I don\u2019t know that I would want to use an internet dating service.  If you do, good for you. It just doesn\u2019t sound like my cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p>and the most important..<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">3.  I\u2019M NOT OVER FORTY!!!!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I know that I will be some day, but today is not that day.  I\u2019m only 33!  33!!!! for goodness sakes.  That\u2019s a long way to forty.  Why, it\u2019s barely out of my twenties.  Almost girlish really.  Don\u2019t you think?  I mean, do I look forty to you?<\/p>\n<p>Wait.  Don\u2019t answer that.  I know that I have a few gray hairs, and that the crows feet..I mean LAUGH LINES are starting to show up.  But you really need to meet me in person.  I have a very youthful air about me.  Almost a glow really.<\/p>\n<p>People would pay good money to have such a glow.  In fact, I think they do pay good money..to someone else.  But really, I don\u2019t seem a day over..say 33.  Really.  I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Do I?  Hang on a second while I go look in the mirror in the kids\u2019 bathroom.  You know, the one with the good light that I usually avoid because\u2026.well, who are you to judge my motives?  I\u2019ll be right back.<\/p>\n<p>Sing a little song and amuse yourself until I return.<\/p>\n<p>Are you humming?  Is it something cool, or is it some hair band from the 80s?  Keep singing, I\u2019m coming right back.<\/p>\n<p>Ack!  I\u2019ve got to go.  Natural sunlight should be outlawed in favor of mood lighting and candles.  Yes, candles would be lovely.  I need some lotion, and hair dye, and mustache cream\u2026I have friends, really, why don\u2019t they TELL me these things?  They could say \u201cYou need a box of hair dye and to kill that old lady thing that\u2019s happening on your upper lip.\u201d  I would hurt them, but I would appreciate the honesty.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last three days, I\u2019ve gotten emails from a group called \u201cOver forty and single\u201d wanting me to join their dating service. I have no idea how they found me, but I have a few things to point out:1. 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