My friend Carla started a list of things she's not ashamed of. She's trying to get to 43 things (she's 43 years old) and her list inspired me to create one of my own. I'm not going to try to get to 46 but I'll share a few with you here. Maybe I'll include more in future blogs. So here's a few of my things I should be ashamed of but I'm not:
1. I am a daddy's girl. I admit it. Always have been, always will be. It's fortunate that I'm his only child because I'm not willing to share. He's mine, mine, mine!
2. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. I really don't want to work at all but since I'm not independently wealthy and my dad won't support me I have to work. I don't gamble or play the lottery so I have to work. Darn!
3. I sing along with the radio in my car. LOUDLY. Even when I get home in the driveway. I know my neighbors get a big kick out of my serenades and the dance routines that sometimes accompany them. Music moves my soul and is a big part of my family's life and is as much a part of me as breathing. America's Got Talent, here I come!
4. I can be intimidating to some people who don't know me. I am aware of this and sometimes I intend to be :) I am actually quite reserved until I get to know you and sometimes that can come off as cold or aloof. Don't be scared. I'm really nice, I don't bite (usually).
5. I don't follow all the rules I was brought up with. I don't make my bed every day ( ask my college roommate about that), I don't clean my house every Saturday and do laundry every Saturday and I very rarely eat vegetables, just meat.
6. I don't like to let people know how smart I am. I'd rather be underestimated, it gives me the element of surprise. I believe in never letting anyone know everything you know.
7. I think, no, I know , I'm cute. You are too! My parents didn't make any ugly children. I believe God didn't create any ugly people. It's just people's behavior sometimes that makes them ugly.
8. Even though I am calm, peaceful and try to live a stress free life I am a product of my environment and if I have to get "ghetto" sometimes, I will. I let a LOT of things go , but push too hard and feel the wrath. You have been warned.
9. I have a crush. No, I'm not telling who! Not until I tell him first and that may take years, LOL.
10. I am addicted to reality crime shows. Why? I don't know. I just am. Maybe I'm trying to figure out how to commit the perfect crime. LOL
That's enough for now, you all don't have to know ALL my bad habits. Ten is enough. I don't want to ruin your perfect image of me. After all I'm old enough to know better..........................
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Goin Fishing
You all know the Chinese Proverb "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"? Good stuff right? WRONG ! Some people just don't want to know how to fish.
Today, for example at work I was asked to run a report by someone whom I've told how to run said report at least five times and I know other people have told them as well. I politely told that person I would be happy to show them how to run the report at which they looked at me like I was crazy and turned and walked away. ( Breathe, Carol, breathe!) Being the mature individual that I am, after all I am trying to grow old gracefully, I went to my computer and typed specific instructions with nice looking screen prints. Printed it out and took them to the person. As I approached I said" I have this for you" and they jumped up and said "It's the report I need right?" and I calmly said "No, it's the instructions on how to print the report you need, I'm on my way to lunch."
Did I get a thank you for teaching them how to fish? NO! I wanted to take the proverbial fishing pole and shove it where the sun don't shine but the growing old gracefully manual says I can't do that .
I'm thinking tomorrow we'll play baseball and I'll take a Louisville Slugger to work........
Don't worry, I'll swing gracefully ;)
Today, for example at work I was asked to run a report by someone whom I've told how to run said report at least five times and I know other people have told them as well. I politely told that person I would be happy to show them how to run the report at which they looked at me like I was crazy and turned and walked away. ( Breathe, Carol, breathe!) Being the mature individual that I am, after all I am trying to grow old gracefully, I went to my computer and typed specific instructions with nice looking screen prints. Printed it out and took them to the person. As I approached I said" I have this for you" and they jumped up and said "It's the report I need right?" and I calmly said "No, it's the instructions on how to print the report you need, I'm on my way to lunch."
Did I get a thank you for teaching them how to fish? NO! I wanted to take the proverbial fishing pole and shove it where the sun don't shine but the growing old gracefully manual says I can't do that .
I'm thinking tomorrow we'll play baseball and I'll take a Louisville Slugger to work........
Don't worry, I'll swing gracefully ;)
Monday, July 18, 2011
So why blog?
Blogging is something I had intended to do for a while. Why? I don't know, maybe as a means of self expression, maybe because I can, maybe because I'm grown... I really can't say. But here goes...
Growing old (not so) gracefully is really tongue in cheek because the older I get the more I love the woman I've become. I constantly discover new things about myself. I've become more of a listener and observer than a talker (you learn a lot that way) and I LOVE my life! Is everything perfect? Of course not but overall I can't complain. I care less about what others think of me and more of what God thinks of me. I've learned to let a lot of things go and not worry about things that are beyond my control and most importantly I've learned that when people show you who they are believe them!
I truly believe you're only as old as you feel, so depending on which day you ask me I may be 2, 21 or 91. I still have hopes, dreams, fantasies, aspirations.... Now don't get me wrong, you won't catch me in the club dropping it like it's hot, getting my eagle on or whatever the heck it is young people are doing nowadays. Some of the more contemporary artists and their lyrics I just can't listen to, however I can dance, will dance and sometimes it may not be as dignified as some may feel it ought to be ( depends on if "my song" is on and who my dance partner is). Maybe that's one of my purposes for blogging - to let my younger friends know life doesn't end at 35, 40 or whatever. We old fogies have fun too, we party, we date and yes we have SEX (shh, don't tell) but you won't be hearing too much about that from me (LOL).
Yes we have Facebook pages and are on other social networks as well (it cracks me up when my younger relatives thinks OMG she's on FB, how cute!) and I always get a good laugh when my younger sorors are lamenting about turning almost 25 or 30 or whatever ( child please!). I'm determined to live life to the fullest so you won't hear me complaining about turning 50, 60 100( God willing) etc.. Every day I can wake up in my right mind with a sound body is a good one.
So anyway, that's my spill for now. Take care and live life to the fullest. Guess what?? You just grew older reading this! But that's o.k. as long as you do it not so gracefully.....
Growing old (not so) gracefully is really tongue in cheek because the older I get the more I love the woman I've become. I constantly discover new things about myself. I've become more of a listener and observer than a talker (you learn a lot that way) and I LOVE my life! Is everything perfect? Of course not but overall I can't complain. I care less about what others think of me and more of what God thinks of me. I've learned to let a lot of things go and not worry about things that are beyond my control and most importantly I've learned that when people show you who they are believe them!
I truly believe you're only as old as you feel, so depending on which day you ask me I may be 2, 21 or 91. I still have hopes, dreams, fantasies, aspirations.... Now don't get me wrong, you won't catch me in the club dropping it like it's hot, getting my eagle on or whatever the heck it is young people are doing nowadays. Some of the more contemporary artists and their lyrics I just can't listen to, however I can dance, will dance and sometimes it may not be as dignified as some may feel it ought to be ( depends on if "my song" is on and who my dance partner is). Maybe that's one of my purposes for blogging - to let my younger friends know life doesn't end at 35, 40 or whatever. We old fogies have fun too, we party, we date and yes we have SEX (shh, don't tell) but you won't be hearing too much about that from me (LOL).
Yes we have Facebook pages and are on other social networks as well (it cracks me up when my younger relatives thinks OMG she's on FB, how cute!) and I always get a good laugh when my younger sorors are lamenting about turning almost 25 or 30 or whatever ( child please!). I'm determined to live life to the fullest so you won't hear me complaining about turning 50, 60 100( God willing) etc.. Every day I can wake up in my right mind with a sound body is a good one.
So anyway, that's my spill for now. Take care and live life to the fullest. Guess what?? You just grew older reading this! But that's o.k. as long as you do it not so gracefully.....
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