Maybe it's just me . . .

[pegkerr]

But I'd much prefer to celebrate my 50th birthday by getting a black belt than by reveling in the opportunity to dine in public wearing a purple dress and red hat. And by buying a lot of other tacky purple and red merchandise.

I kinda liked the idea of the Red Hat Society when it first came out, but I think they've been overtaken by merchandising greed and now they seem rather more cringe-inducing than empowering. And sdn is right, their website is really rather scary. If not downright blinding.

(Oh, and my fiftieth birthday is still three years away. Well, almost two.)

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[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

The women I know who belong to Red Hat groups seem to really need it. Like otherwise they wouldn't have had the guts or the imagination to do interesting and independent things, so it's a big deal for them.

If it works for them, then by all the means they should go for it. I imagine they're getting the same thing out of it that I'm getting out of taking karate.

And I love it that the marketing to Red Hat ladies makes more purple clothing and fabric available to me.

Ha. There's something to be said for that!

For my 50th - I have a few years to plan, too - I'm considering things like hiring a live rock band for a party, singing and/or playing with said band, enlisting several young men to help me celebrate, and getting a tattoo.

I'm still thinking about a tattoo, too. And taking up Gaelic fiddle. In my extremely copious spare time.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Gaelic fiddle would be extremely cool. I've been trying at least one new creative thing every 4 months, ever since I had to start my life over again. The newest is guitar. Which means that my fingertips feel funny when I type.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Not sure if it's quite the same thing - my mom belongs, and I think it more or less fills the place the PTA and then synagogue Sisterhood and her Mah-Johngg group had in her life.

On the other hand, she's been going to the gym the last few years, taking a couple of classes and getting Bat Mitzvah'd, and I really would say those things do for her something like what karate does for you.