13 Ways A Woman Knows She's Old

It isn't a specific age, it's a mental shift.
Here are 13 ways a woman knows she's old (can also be read as menopausal).

It's when:

• the good looking guy in the truck takes a long look as he passes you and you flip the mirror down to see if you have something on your face or wonder if you left your drink sitting on top of the car.
• you're more concerned with if you'll get too hot in that new outfit than if you'll look "hot" in it.
• the GQ gorgeous construction worker takes off his shirt and you think "Boy, I bet he's hot out there." not "Man, is he HOT!"
• the romance novel you're reading tells of the couple "making love all night" and instead of thinking "oh, ya!" you think "ya, right!".
• and you realize sleeping all night (no trips to the bathroom or hot flashes) is way more appealing anyway.
• you can't keep up with your own mood swings.
• romance takes way to much planning to be romantic.
• you know what black cohosh is and what it's for and that it isn't some recreational drug from the 70's.
• you have a paper calendar, a calendar on your computer and a day-planner and you still need your daughter to call and remind you of any important obligations/events so you don't forget the. (Thanks Christy!)
• the styles you wore as a teen are now back in style - and you can't believe you ever wore them.
• your tweezers have become your "must have" beauty implement to one hair at a time ward off that mustache, beard, and/or unibrow.
• you have feminine hygiene products in your purse, your desk and your car because you just never know.
• the scales (which may or may not have been an enemy before) become your taunting antagonist as its number changes by the hour, let alone the day.

NOTE: For those of you who visited last week and left such kind comments, thank you. I seem to be narrowing in on the underlying source of my anxiety and that in and of itself is helping.