Momo Fali's: Old and Out of Shape

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Old and Out of Shape

Last month, my son's cub scout troop visited a local library for a "Go See It" task. A librarian read the boys a couple of books and then gave them a tour of the building.

One of the final stops was the archive room, where there were local artifacts and books. In the corner of the room was a card catalog. In the archive room. I have never felt so quickly propelled toward old age.

At last night's cub scout meeting, we talked about the food pyramid. Now, if you're old enough to have used a card catalog, you also know that this is not the food pyramid with which we grew up. The government went and complicated the heck out of it. Imagine that.

This is the new one...

I'm pretty sure all of this is unnecessary. Why do we have to go and screw up a good thing? Also, get off my lawn!

Luckily, the other parents at the meeting also had one foot in the grave and when it was time for us to create our own food pyramid, we created something like this...

I was feeling pretty good about it. Making it old school for us old folks, and all. Until suddenly my son asked, "Mom, I know you know what the bottom squares are, but do you know what exercise is?"

Clearly, I need to accept the fact that there will always be change and that the things I grew up with are now relics. I also need to accept the fact that it's time to get back on the treadmill.

Labels: Getting Old, Shameless Statements

# posted by Momo Fali : 10:13 PM

Comments:

Oh snap.

# posted by

MidLifeMama : January 20, 2010 at 10:03 AM

Oh my, you poor old relic...I am SO right there with you, though!

# posted by

Kori : January 20, 2010 at 10:38 AM

-->I was just thinking about card catalogs the other day and how our kids will never know what they are anymore, unless I guess they go to the Archive Room.

www.WebSavvyMom.com

# posted by

Deb : January 20, 2010 at 11:08 AM

your kid totally just burned you, bigtime. ha ha ha ha. HE'S SO CUTE THOUGH!

# posted by

Heather : January 20, 2010 at 11:31 AM

Okay, that looks like the "Guitar Hero" version of the food pyramid. Lord only knows how they'll desecrate it thirty years from now. It'll probably be holographic and interactive or something.

# posted by

Tom : January 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM

OMG, you just made me feel so old! Next thing you know, we'll see the card catalog and typewriters in museums, along with CD's (I mean cassette tapes).

# posted by

The Urban Cowboy : January 20, 2010 at 1:17 PM

My daughter asked me who the Spice Girls were the other day.

I don't want to get old.

# posted by

Zakary : January 20, 2010 at 2:47 PM

This 'exercise' of which you speak, is it like liquor? :)

# posted by

Irish Gumbo : January 20, 2010 at 6:53 PM

Pwned....

# posted by

Tara R. : January 20, 2010 at 7:56 PM

I'm pretty sure all of this is unnecessary. Why do we have to go and screw up a good thing? Also, get off my lawn!

I am snorting and laughing out loud in my office.

# posted by

MommyTime : January 20, 2010 at 8:30 PM

Exercise. It's a dirty word.

Your kid totally needs to come to my house. He'd fit right in with my cheeky kids.

# posted by

Tanis Miller, RNM : January 20, 2010 at 8:53 PM

You never have to worry about getting a big head. Your son is always there to take you down a peg. And the old pyramid was made by the meat and dairy industry, which is why meat and dairy made up three-fourths of the old pyramid.

# posted by

unmitigated me : January 20, 2010 at 9:00 PM

I am seriously intimidated by the new food pyramid!

# posted by

meleah rebeccah : January 20, 2010 at 9:44 PM

long live the dewey decimal system.

and long live momo fali.

oh, look at that. i believe i just got a bingo!

# posted by

john cave osborne : January 20, 2010 at 9:58 PM

We have a technology museum in town with what look like massive LP records, brown, big hole in the center.

And my husband's reaction was, I used to work on those...

Speaking of treadmills. I got told today to buy one by the doctor treating me for bone loss. At 51.

# posted by

Alison : January 20, 2010 at 10:48 PM

(Oh, oops, forgot that Blogger auto-link silliness. Not on Blogger anymore.)

# posted by

AlisonH : January 20, 2010 at 10:49 PM

Why do they have to keep changing this stuff? Wow. Way to make us all feel old.

# posted by

Meg : January 20, 2010 at 11:53 PM

oh, now that is COLD!!!

# posted by

the planet of janet : January 21, 2010 at 12:34 AM

Exercise is overrated, that's what it is!

# posted by

Putting the FUN in DysFUNctional : January 21, 2010 at 1:45 AM

Damn kids and their rock n' roll music!

# posted by

WeaselMomma : January 21, 2010 at 7:32 AM

Diet AND exercise!

UP

# posted by

UP : January 21, 2010 at 8:05 AM

the new food pyramid looks very Masonic or New Age Scientology...
It is scary, but not as scary as yours with exercise at the top.

# posted by

Geeks in Rome : January 21, 2010 at 4:00 PM

the new food pyramid looks very Masonic or New Age Scientology...
It is scary, but not as scary as yours with exercise at the top.

# posted by

Geeks in Rome : January 21, 2010 at 4:01 PM

Life gets richer with age. Sure a lot of things change as we grow in age, but I can't imagine life not knowing what a cassette tape is. Or not going through the "preppy" fashion phase, or breakdancing and pop-locking.. Or Afros. It's funny to me how many of these things are popular with kids today. Full circle, baby.

# posted by

Mr. Man : January 21, 2010 at 4:18 PM

I can't even remember the old food pyramid.

does looking books up on the card catalog count as exercise?

# posted by

Everyday Goddess : January 21, 2010 at 7:30 PM

but it's oh so pretty

# posted by

v8grrl : January 22, 2010 at 9:51 AM

Your son is hilarious!

# posted by

wm : January 22, 2010 at 1:06 PM

I love the things that kids say... especially because I have none of my own ;0)

# posted by

Anonymous : January 23, 2010 at 8:10 AM

Your not a relic, or if you are I am positively ancient. Besides I like your diagram better.

Out of the mouths of babes . . .

# posted by

SurprisedMom : January 24, 2010 at 1:24 AM

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