Ladies in their 40's Welcome to Shady Oaks!

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ChiTownSherri
ChiTownSherri Member Posts: 23
edited June 2014 in Young With Breast Cancer

It seems on these boards that is considered "Middle Aged", but I beg to differ!! No offense meant to anyone, but I don't think someone who is 40 can really be put in the same catergory as someone who is 60, that is quite a gap. 

I was diagnosed at 39--almost five years ago. Still consider myself young. Although if truth be told, I will probably consider myself young at 90!

So for those of us not ready to grab our walkers just yet--grab your favorite drink, throw on some rockin' MP3's and let's party!!!

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  • MustangIA
    MustangIA Member Posts: 177
    edited August 2011

    I'll bring the 80's hairband tunes!  Checking into Shady Oaks at the ripe young age of 42 -- of course, 

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  • MustangIA
    MustangIA Member Posts: 177
    edited August 2011

    Oh, and I'm grabbing my legwarmers and my rainbow t-shirt.  Think those will look pretty rad with my frizzy dry, Xeloda hair!!

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  • AnimalLover
    AnimalLover Member Posts: 24
    edited August 2011

    WHAM!  All the way baby! 

     I still think Shady Oaks is a nudist colony but you know me, I am always up for a good party - clothes or no clothes.  

     I'm only 3 months into this 40 thing.  

     It's Hammer Time!!

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  • saffyres
    saffyres Member Posts: 10
    edited August 2011

    Middle-aged, huh?  Scooch on over on that Shady Oak bench for this 44-year-old!

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  • 2KidMom
    2KidMom Member Posts: 20
    edited August 2011

    I love you "old ladies"!!  hahah!!

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  • jc3win
    jc3win Member Posts: 61
    edited August 2011

    Checking in with my Van Halen (David Lee Roth) and Pat Benatar rockin' 41 year old self!

    I too was TOO young for cancer. Yell

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  • ChiTownSherri
    ChiTownSherri Member Posts: 23
    edited August 2011

    Lovin' the music choices ladies!! I have to bring my man Bon Jovi along to the party!! 

    I wonder if I can get my hair all nice and big like I used to? 

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  • MustangIA
    MustangIA Member Posts: 177
    edited August 2011
    Hell, yeah.  JBJ is always welcome at Shady Oaks.  I would also like to include the 80's/90's version of Sebastian Bach (Current version not so much!) .  He was my fantasy man back then -- that hair, that voice!!  Damn, I'm one perverted golden girl. Tongue out  Good to see my hysto hasn't affected my fantasy.   
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  • othermother
    othermother Member Posts: 18
    edited August 2011

    How is it that nobody has brought Prince to Shady Oaks yet? I pulled up in my Little Red Corvette. With my Raspberry Beret. (Playing Rick Springfield on the cassette player!)

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  • MustangIA
    MustangIA Member Posts: 177
    edited August 2011

    Of course, we have to have Prince -- time to party like it's 1999...crap - there I go showing my age again.  Bouncing back out now singing at the top of my lungs (thanks Cass)...oooh I wish that I had Jesse's girl.....

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  • MissCurmudgeonly
    MissCurmudgeonly Member Posts: 16
    edited August 2011

    Umm, I hate to be the crotchey old lady here, but y'all know how I am.......plus i like to think of myself as the resident know-it-all....but I'm pretty sure (and I'll bet a drink on it - in Philly!) that the old folks home that Sophia was always being threatened with was Shady PINES, not Shady Oaks.

    "How would you like to go sit outside underneath the shady PINES, mother?" Dorothy would threaten.

    I think.

    If I'm wrong, I blame tamoxisurly. :-)

    Miss C.

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  • ChiTownSherri
    ChiTownSherri Member Posts: 23
    edited August 2011

    Shady Oaks, Shady Pines, whatever!! As long as we are hanging together I'm happy! Rick Springfield-check! Sebastian Bach-Check! And Prince-Check!! I remember thinking he was soooo hot back in the day. My mom was mortified! I recently watched Purple Rain again-not sure what I saw. I was thinking --ewww!! I remember going to the store and buying every tape he had made up to that point too! Funny the things we do when we are kids!

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  • kwise
    kwise Member Posts: 7
    edited August 2011

    Shady Pines, Ma !

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited August 2011

    Woo hoo...a thread just for us inbetweeners! 42 at DX now 44..which sounds sooooo old.

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  • MissCurmudgeonly
    MissCurmudgeonly Member Posts: 16
    edited August 2011
    kwise wrote:

    Shady Pines, Ma !

    LOL, i love how that was all she had to say!

    Miss C.

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  • MissCurmudgeonly
    MissCurmudgeonly Member Posts: 16
    edited August 2011

    Cookiegal! We're not old! Nay! We're....ummmm.......non-old! Yeah, so there. :-)

    Miss C.

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  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited August 2011

    48, am I too old for this bunch?  How about some Culture Club?  Love Boy George! 

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  • marial
    marial Member Posts: 255
    edited August 2011

    Just turned 43 a few days before my diagnosis.. I wouldn't mind some tunes from the past from Styx or Journey while sipping on a margarita or long island!

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  • saffyres
    saffyres Member Posts: 10
    edited August 2011
    Gahhh. Sebastian Bach!!! He did a stint on Gilmore Girls and I just swooned every week he showed up on my screen....
     
    Kiss
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  • reesie
    reesie Member Posts: 2,078
    edited August 2011

    48 is NOT old Kay lol. You'd think I'd put your name and my age together and realize we were the same age. I call chemo brain lol.



    And I swear I'm not stalking you this is truly a coincidence!

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  • reesie
    reesie Member Posts: 2,078
    edited August 2011

    edited to remove double post.

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  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited August 2011

    LOL!

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  • odie16
    odie16 Member Posts: 1,882
    edited August 2011

    80's hair bands & margaritas? COUNT ME IN PLEASE!!! Failed my base line mammy (congrtats on turning forty & fabulous!) so I think I qualify.....lol  Oh, and I brought plenty of hairspray ....

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  • MustangIA
    MustangIA Member Posts: 177
    edited August 2011

    Mmmmmm....margaritas!  I've decided we can't be at Shady Oaks without Journey and Def Leppard!  Are they invited?  Pour some sugar on me and remember, don't stop believin!!  Hey Odie...can I borrow some of that hairspray??

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  • odie16
    odie16 Member Posts: 1,882
    edited August 2011

    MustangIA,

    You must be my kindred spirit.....lol  You don't mind White Rain right? If I am napping, feel free to "shake me" with Cinderella......

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  • MustangIA
    MustangIA Member Posts: 177
    edited August 2011

    Odie - Totally kindred spirits!  If we run out of White Rain, I've heard AquaNet really helps get the hair big!  I'm pretty sure there is still a photo of me in my college sorority house with hair that looked like I stuck my finger in a light socket!  Aw, the good old days when "Life was just a Fantasy....am I the only one with Aldo nova on my Ipod??  LOL.  Oh, and how about...It's the final countdown...dana na na..dana na na na...  ha ha... This is fun!!

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  • SunnyTeresa
    SunnyTeresa Member Posts: 3
    edited August 2011



    Well, if there's gonna be dancing, we must have the "Material Girl."



    But, I vote for mojitos over margaritas. :)

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  • reesie
    reesie Member Posts: 2,078
    edited August 2011

    It was a sad day for me a couple of weeks ago when I was waiting for an MRI and they had the oldies station on and they were playing MADONNA.



    Madonna on the oldies station? Ugh.

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  • odie16
    odie16 Member Posts: 1,882
    edited August 2011

    Guess I best start tuning into the oldies station...... Oh the things we think of "In the still of the night" .... (during insomnia)

    By the way, MustangIA, I LOVE the ball & chain of Aldo Nova.... Just hoping the "Poison" does it's job.....

    So glad we have this healthy outlet to destress. Thanks so much ladies Cool

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  • ringosmommy
    ringosmommy Member Posts: 91
    edited August 2011

    did someone invite that smoking HOT billy squire to the party?  i have seen him twice in the last few years, and let me tell you, he is freaking HOT as hell.  In the dark.  In the light, he's HOT. :)

    add me to the senior roster ladies, I'm pulling out my AARP card and I'm ready to party!!  

    Cori (turning 43 in Philly next month)

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