Sunday, October 23, 2005
25 Ways To Tell If You Have Finally Grown Up!
1. Your houseplants are alive, and you can’t smoke any of them.
2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
5. You hear your favorite song in an elevator.
6. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of “hook up” and “break up”.
8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as “dressed up.”
10.You’re the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door
won’t turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you
12. You don’t know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
14. You feed your dog/cat Science Diet instead of McDonald’s leftovers.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
16. You take naps from noon to 6 PM
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
19. If you’re a girl, you go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.
20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer “pretty good stuff.”
21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
22. “I just can’t drink the way I used to...” replaces “I’m never going to drink that much again.”
23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
24. When you find out your friend is pregnant you congratulate her
instead of asking “Oh S*$#! What Happened!?!?!?!
25. You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that
doesn’t apply to you and can’t find one to save your sorry old butt.
Thanks for sharing Dar!
Where Are you?
For four days now a little voice has been tapping on the inside of my forehead. Mom always said I’d end up hearing voices! But I digress. This little voice kept saying, “Where have you been little girl”? Even if I am a bit older I knew it was talking to me.
Reviewing these last days things like a quick weight gain for both Jay and I brought some concerns. Trying to figure out what to do occupied part of the time. A change in Jay’s medication brought bad numbers in his blood pressure and blood sugar. I had figure out a plan to combat that. This meant back to the old records of diets, menus, and exercise. Still trying to work on a menu plan that will handle both kidney and diabetes problems at the same time. Lastly waiting for a phone call from my Doctor on the results of my stress test. Oh well I’ve had many years to do the damage so I’ll have to take it as it comes.
On the lighter side I have to figure another Halloween picture of Molly before Thanksgiving gets here. I also find myself grabbing the camera every time I leave the house. The trees are beautiful as I drive around. I keep saying that on my way back home I’ll stop and catch some of the color, but I never do. Soon there will be no leaves to shoot.
Jay and I are getting ready to move the swing to down under the deck again. I have to start gathering the lawn ornaments to store in the shed through the winter. I’m hoping David will be up soon to convert the tractor from a lawn mower to a snow plow. There is some brush to be cut from the base of some of the trees out back. I’m still waiting for 10 redbud trees and 10 lilac bushes to plant before the ground gets too hard to dig. I am debating pulling the solar lights along the driveway so we don’t slide into them in the snow.
I just remembered I forgot to end the onion/potato box saga. Jay had started these just before one of the times he went temporarily blind. The cuts were off and no matter how hard he tried the boxes didn’t come together right. I finally told him to scrap them and we will try again next year. It upset him to lose all the time and materials but it was worse to see him try to save it. Sometimes it is better to step back, take a deep breath, and try again.
So that is where I have been hiding. Nothing earth shaking, no great discoveries, just the simple things that ‘old folks’ face every day. I’m thankful for that!