When I Get Old

                                                                Notes for When I Get Old

I was sitting here at my desk scrolling through Facebook and Pinterest and just basically amusing myself.  I started thinking about when I got 'older'.  (I can't say when I get old because my family kinda already thinks I am.)

I'm going to take chalk and outline dead people in my driveway.  People in the neighborhood know I don't have any kids hanging around so they won't be expecting me to playing with chalk.  

I'm going to try skating again -- maybe.  I won't tell the girls -- last time I went skating and made the comment about how it wasn't as easy as it used to be I was informed by oldest that if it was hard to put the skates on I probably shouldn't be skating.  I quickly informed her that I had been skating for an hour; I just commented that it wasn't as easy as it used to be.

I'm going to buy a bunch of smoke bombs and light them all at once.  Wont't that be interesting?  I'm hoping someone sees all the smoke and comes to check it out.  

I'm going to go gather up all my other 'older' friends and take them to the playground.  We are going to chase all the little kids off the playground and take it over.  It will be a playground with swings.  I like to swing even if it does make me kinda sick to my stomach.

I'm going to get up real early and hide Easter Eggs in all the yards up and down the street on Easter morning.  How fun would this be?  Perhaps I won't wait until I'm old to do this. Can't you just see how excited this would make kids?  

I'm going to blow bubbles.  Well, I do this already but I'm not going to stop.  I'll just buy myself a bigger bottle of bubbles.

I'm going to buy a clown suit and wear it all day.  I'll make sure that it is my errand day also.  Wouldn't want anyone at Target, the bank or the grocery store miss out on this.  

I'm going to call my kids and ask them stupid questions.  Things like, Do you know where I put the dish that I liked that was Grandma's?  No, not the gold one - I know where it is.  The other one.  Or maybe, I can't get my computer to work.  I've typed in my password and it won't take it and I know it's the right password but it isn't working.  I know what it is - I'm using the one you gave me last week.  I need you to come over here and help me out.  Or this one, I can't get the TV to work with the movie machine thing.  It's time to watch Christmas Vacation and I can't get it to work.  I don't remember which of these 5 remotes you told me I had to use and I've tried them all and now the TV won't even come on.  

Yep, I think I'm gonna have some fun when I get older.