I was packing for this trip and realized that I did not have any 3-ounces-or-under bottles. How, then, to get past airport security with all the various fluids essential for watering and pruning a woman facing 50? I hit on a brilliant idea: prescription containers. We have tons of empty plastic prescription canisters littering our bathroom cabinet. Plus, if you run out of room in the mandated 1-quart (or whatever it is) ziplock baggie, you can put them with your prescription medicines and no one will know. (I've done it now, and they don't. Should your experience differ, should you get arrested because you've threatened national security with hair conditioner in a pill bottle, well, why the heck are you taking advice from a menopausal woman writing on the internet?)
But, back to the packed liquids: Important safety tip--you might want to label the pill canisters. Because otherwise, in the haze of the morning, you just might mistake your sweet-smelling tame-your-hair gunk for your sweet-smelling smear-this-on-your-face-and-pretend-you're-reversing-the-aging-process moisturizer. The results are not good.
2nd important tip for the menopausal traveler: Do not wear leggings and a sweater dress. When the hot flash hits, you need to strip off clothing. If you can't (because if you do, you'll be sitting on the plane in leggings and your bra), you'll crouch there in your sweater dress and drip and steam and sweat and look increasingly crazed while the 20-ish woman in the next seat eyes you with revulsion. I was about to tell her, "Look close! I am your future!" But then the peanuts arrived.
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