Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

Monday November 30th 2020 My last post saw us into the late night of my birthday, and it saw me as my wondering inquisitive self, with my brain that never stops thinking about stuff. Friday was the second day of Marvmas, the day after my 50th birthday!  I know, we’ve talked about the fifty-ness already! I’m constantly surprised that I reached it. I went out to the bank to put some cheques into my account that I had as gifts from people - thank you 😊 I couldn’t believe that there were so many people out and about while we’re on a country wide lockdown. It was ridiculous, especially with so many of the shops in the town centre closed.  Going to work on Saturday evening was bad as well, which found me waiting for around ten minutes to cross the road, because of so much traffic on the road! Where were they going? It’s completely different to the lockdown earlier in the year, and I have a theory that that has to do with the oncoming Christmas shopping, where the government want people to s

Hey y’all... I’m trying to sound all “street” there, but it’s not working is it?!?!?!  So, the transition from 49 to 50 then, what’s it like? Thinking back to what I remember of going from 39 to 40, I was thinking then about the old adage of “life begins at 40”! What a crock of shit that was, and so is going from 49 to 50...  Someone asked me about it, saying “what’s it like to turn 50?” My answer was something along the lines of “like it’s a day after being 49!” I’ve still got thin hair on my head, with lots of grey therein. I still make the money at the same job, which I’ll probably still unfortunately be doing in a year when I’ll turn 51!  The changes that have happened recently have very little to do with that transition.  Or do they? I’ve mentioned before to people, particularly fellow podcasters, but I think also in my previous blog series (Ramblings of a Forty Something), that I had been thinking about doing some new things, because the then still a few months away fiftieth birt