Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Mental Pause

I've been working on a post for a week now. This is it.

I had my first hot flash, and for a moment it seemed perfectly rational to take off all my clothes in a room with 16 other people in it.

I really thought I'd be smarter by now, that I'd have it all together and be as smart as the women I've admired all my life.

I was wrong.

Evidently, I've been laboring under more than a few misconceptions. I'm pretty sure they'll each need individual posts, and will end up comprising a series which may never end.

7 comments:

Diane@Diane's Place said...

I never really believed in spontaneous human combustion until I started having raging hot flashes.

It sounds perfectly reasonable to me to strip off nekkid in front of a crowd.

Have a blessed and joyous Easter, Clemntine. :-)

Robin said...

Please new friend of mine, tell me you are kidding. Since you're only 3 yrs older than me, I don't like this post ONE BIT.

Tonja said...

I was driving in my car when I had my first hot flash. I pulled off the road and just waited to die. It passed...I lived...but that first one scared the heck out of me. I always laughed at the "older" ladies who talked about their flashes...I am not laughing anymore...

I've heard that hot flashes are really just your inner child...playing with matches!

Colloquist said...

I'm thinkin a hot flash might have felt good back in January when it was 5* overnight and my thyroid wasn't functioning. ;)

2nd Cup of Coffee said...

Isn't being a human kiln fun?

Melissa said...

Welcome to the club, sista! As an older woman in my life once told me (she's such a delicate Southern Belle), they aren't hot flashes, they're "POWER SURGES". Personally, I've blown many a fuse!

Lisa Spence said...

Behold, we are fearfully and wonderfully made! And when one considers "the change" and all the changes comprised thereof, "fearful" is indeed the operative word!