Observations on Growing Older
~Your kids are becoming you...and you don't like them...but your grandchildren are perfect!
~Going out is good..Coming home is better!
~When people say you look "Great"... they add "for your age!"
~When you needed the discount, you paid full price.
Now you get discounts on everything...movies, hotels, flights, but you're too tired to use them.
~You forget names .... but it's OK because other people forgot they even knew you!!! (Sooo TRUE!!)
~The 5 kilos you wanted to lose is now 10 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 10 kilos
~You realize you're never going to be really good at anything .... especially golf.
~Your spouse is counting on you to remember things you don't remember.
~The things you used to care to do, you no longer care to do, but you really do care that you don't care to do them anymore.
~Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair with the TV blaring than he does in bed. It's called his "pre-sleep".
~Remember when your mother said,
"Wear clean underwear in case you GET in an accident"?
Now you bring clean underwear in case you HAVE an accident!
~You used to say,
"I hope my kids GET married...
Now, "I hope they STAY married!"
~You miss the days when everything worked with just an "ON" and "OFF" switch..
~When GOOGLE, ipod, email, modem....were unheard of, and a mouse was something that made you climb on a table.
~You used to use more 4 letter words ...
"what?"..."when?"... ???
~Now that you can afford expensive jewellry, it's not safe to wear it anywhere.
~Your husband has a night out with the guys, but he's home by 9:00 P.M. Next week it will be 8:30 P.M.
~You read 100 pages into a book before you realise you've read it.
~Notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"?!!!
~What used to be freckles are now age spots.
~Everybody whispers.
~Now that your husband has retired ... you'd give anything if he'd find a job!
~You have 3 sizes of clothes in your wardrobe ... 2 of which you will never wear.
~~~~But old is good in some things:
old songs,
old movies,
And best of all, OLD FRIENDS!!