One of the realities of 50.

If it bugged you a little when you were 35, it's going drive you f**king crazy when you're 50.

'Round-the-bend insane.

"Get me the hell out of here" nuts.

I  get that people have mid-life crisis's. What I don't understand is why people think it's MEN who have them.  If a man goes out and buys a sports car, or finds some young thing to help him feel like a stud again, he's just having a mid-life crisis.

But when a women yells at you to STFU because she doesn't want to hear your burping/farting/snoring/smacking, then she's a bitch going through menopause. Hmmm....

None of these things has happened to me. Well, the STFU may have been uttered, and I know that some of my students, in the past, may have called me a bitch. I don't really care. But, no cheating husband or sports car in the driveway. (2 vans and a Ford Focus station wagon....we are wild and crazy). But if I have to hear the snoring dog and burping husband in the middle of the night one more time, I am going to, well, go bat-shit crazy.

I work away for the summers. I spend 7 weeks at cadet camp, teaching music.

The best part? I have my own room for 7 weeks.

My own bathroom: seat always down, floor never suspiciously wet, towels have only been wiped by my hands...no worries about what is on them.

I get to pick what to watch on the TV.

I can read or study and no one talks to me. BUT, I can walk for 30 seconds to the mess and go visit and have a drink if I want to.

It's really like 7 weeks of heaven.

I read that in ancient times, the sensitivity, or rather over-sensitivity of menopausal women could save an entire village from all forms of dangers....
...sensitive ears hear the wild beast sneaking up to eat you.
...sensitive noses and taste buds detect spoiled food before you eat it and die of intestinal illness.
...sensitive feelings....well, are just sensitive feelings....

Here is 2012, the hypersensitivity seems to just serve to drives us f**king crazy.