Well, I don’t feel old, but I’m getting old looking and I’m not happy about it.  My hair is graying and the wrinkles are getting visible.  I’m starting to notice some age spots!  I still feel twenty but look fifty.  And I don’t like it!  Not one single bit! 

I tried dying my hair once, back around ten years ago.  It was a total disaster!  I made a HUGE mess, ruined several towels AND the shower curtain, and the dye didn’t even cover the gray hair at all!  So I decided that I would not try it again, I considered that a lesson learned that I was wasting my time, money, and energy on trying to look younger than I am.

So, color me gray!  LOLOL!

When my sisters and I got older, sometimes we would double-date and go play “Putt Putt” on our dates, and that was fun, too!

Now that we have kids of our own, whenever I get the chance to take my kids to play miniature golf, I try to take them for a game or two.  We always enjoy it a lot!

It is good, clean family fun!

I went up to “J” and said “would you like to be my partner” and she was so grateful to be asked, she gushed “yes I’d love to!”

We have been dear, close friends ever since, even though we live on opposite ends of the US.  I’m on the East Coast, and she is in California.

We recently lost a dear cousin “B” to complications due to diabetes.  She was very dear to me.  She was my father’s first cousin (I can’t remember if that means she is my second cousin or first cousin once removed.)   Oh well…..

As I said, she was dear to me.  I have a lot of family that I considered “boring” and the visits to them were “requirements” that we had to endure, but she was NOT one of the”boring” ones.  I will miss her dearly.

I never really enjoyed playing any of the games, I prefer co-operative activities over competitive activities, and to be perfectly honest, I felt bad at the end of the game whether I had won or lost.  I found that most of the people that I played games with were poor sports, sulking when they lost, and bragging beyond reason when they won.  Either way, I did not enjoy it at all.

As I got older and entered the “dating scene” I found that many of my dates and their families wanted to play board games, too.  I found that they were usually all poor sports, too.  My first hubby “thought” he enjoyed playing board games, but whenever he would bring one home he would only play it with me until I would win a game, and then we would never play that game again!  After about a year we had a closet full of board games we had only played a couple times, so I eventually just stopped playing games.

I imagine that if I had been surrounded by people who were all around good sports, I might have learned to enjoy playing games, but that simply didn’t happen.

Isn’t it ironic how fast kids want to look older and “more grown up” and are anxious to become legal adults and be their “own boss,” and once they actually DO grow up they start to realize that being an adult really is not as much fun as they imagined it would be?

So many decisions, so many responsibilities, and not being able to run to their parents to “fix” whatever the problem of the month might be.  Although I married at an older age than my sisters, and my girlfriends, if I knew THEN what I know NOW I might have been a whole lot slower to get married at all.