Comments | zayichik: Tick tock

zayichik

Tick tock

Nov 09, 2006 15:43

When did I get so old that women (!) my age are talking about their biological clocks ticking? It's one thing to see girls you graduated with in high school with 5 screaming kids in tow in the supermarket, but my own friends asking me if my biological clock is ticking yet seriously freaks me out. Um, no, my biological clock is broken due to me ( Read more... )

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cnv November 9 2006, 20:55:00 UTC

your biological clock is broken? forgive my idiocy but what does this mean?

zayichik November 10 2006, 00:20:10 UTC

When women talk about wanting to have kids and their window of fertility running out, they usually use the phrase "biological clock". Biological clock ticking simply means you get to the age where you get "baby fever" and y ou madly want to have a child. When the biological clock is not ticking, i.e. it's broken, that means for some reason at the prime child-bearing age, one doesn't want to have kids.

tiradora November 9 2006, 21:44:09 UTC

i carry pictures of my guinea pig in my wallet. he's all the small child i can handle.

zayichik November 10 2006, 00:21:05 UTC

I know. I'm just as mad about my kitty. If only babies required as little work as cats and were half as cute and smart.

yannaboo November 10 2006, 04:33:00 UTC

oh, I want tons of babies. In the future. But not too far in the future - before I'm 30.

Dating a 21 yr old quells such baby needing, though :-)

groen November 10 2006, 09:27:54 UTC

I was a groomsman in a friend's wedding for the first time a few weeks ago, and that's liable to be repeated several times over the next ~year. After that, the first wave of podlings will start hatching out.

I'm glad, really. Smart people I know are breeding so I don't have to.

Correct me if I am wrong mylanta November 10 2006, 17:53:29 UTC

but don't they have like 20 some years left on their clocks? Or do all the hormones we ingest fuck with that?

Re: Correct me if I am wrong tiradora November 12 2006, 01:30:22 UTC

i heard that once you reach 35 the chance of your child having biological problems increases astronomically.

plus, i'm already lazy and out of shape. i can't imagine how decrepid i will be 10 yrs from now. imagine chasing around a toddler while you gimp around on your cane.

Re: Correct me if I am wrong zayichik November 13 2006, 02:27:40 UTC

Silly Liza. Why chase a toddler? Simply put them on a leash. Seriously, my parents did that. i've seen it. It's all the rage.