Older But Not Necessarily Wiser

Ok, I am not the best blogger ever... but in my defense, I was injured... well, sort of injured LOL. The truth is, I am just not as young as I used to be. I forget that (as most of us do I think) from time to time. Well, a couple of weeks ago happens to be one of those times.

My last post was a picture of me and two of my friends riding 4-wheelers. Now, up until two weeks ago I had never driven a 4-wheeler. But that day I learned how to drive it and proceeded to do so for about 6 hours straight. I knew that my hands and arms were getting tired and were starting to feel like jello toward the end of the evening, but I had no idea what kind of a wimp I really was. The next morning I woke up and basically had no strength or control of my right hand. Since I am right-handed that was not a good thing! Finally after about 5 days doing every single task with my left hand (including writing... and it was bad!) I finally went to get it checked out. I had actually sprained my thumb and bruised my hand clear through.

After a week of ice and therapy the feeling and control started to return. Yay! I could finally do a few things with my right hand again... Finally two weeks post ride I can do almost everything again. Still a little weakness, but at least now I can type again so I will try to be a better blogger!

Like I said, older but not necessarily wiser. Oh, and don't tell my mother, but I rode it again today...

Wordless Wednesday on a Tuesday... is that legal?

I'll explain later!

The Murtaugh List

So the other night, two of my favorite boys in the world shared with me a list of 100 things they wanted to accomplish before they went off to college. For those of you who don’t know… I was at Bobe’s and my two boys are Bin and Derek. They read off this list of activities they hoped to do together before they parted ways in August. I have to tell you that approximately 90% of the list did not sound like anything that I would particularly like to do, and as much as I hate to admit it and actually fight the whole age thing……. Yeah, “I’m too old for that” was my thought on probably 88% of them.

There was a recent episode of “How I Met Your Mother” on a few weeks back where one of the characters (Barney) with the help of Robin, set out to prove to another one (Ted) that they were still young enough to do the things on this list of “I’m too old for that” activities. As Barney begins to do the things on the list, he slowly develops pain throughout his body (ie. His ear getting infected from getting it pierced and his back going out from doing some goofy thing etc.) and by the end of the show concedes to Ted’s original murtaugh list.

After they shared with me their list of things to do, and after I had mentioned that maybe 20 years ago some of those things would have been on my list, but now not too many of them sounded like they would be on my to-do list, I started thinking… what would be on my list? I have never seen “The Bucket List” but I wonder if this very thing is what it is all about?

Hmmm….. I mean, there are the usual things you expect to see on a princess’ wishlist , you know, things like:
1. Find a tall, dark, handsome guy to marry and
2. For that guy to be the kind that cooks, cleans, & is at your every beck & call
3. Acquire a lovely beach house on the ocean that someone else cleans for you
4. Accumulate as many cute shoes & purses as possible

I could go on, but I think you get the picture. Although I must confess, all those things do sound really good and probably would be on my list in some form or fashion, (definitely the guy and the shoes and purses) as I have gotten older (not old, just older than I was 20 years ago) the things that are important in my life have changed a bit.

I will have to think about this. Why don’t you too?
I will make my list and you make yours… post it on my blog if you’d like to share it. I will post mine as soon as I get it done. Oh, and I will post some of the things the boys listed as well. You'll see what I mean...