I received this from my friend Grace: Oh how true!!

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!!!   ~The 5 pounds you wanted to lose is now 15 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 15 pounds.   ~You realize you're never going to be really good at anything .... especially golf.   ~Your wife 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 jewelry, 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 realize you've read it.   ~Notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"?!!!   ~What used to be freckles are now liver 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 closet .... 2 of which you will never wear.   ~~~~But old is good in some things: old songs old movies And best of all OLD FRIENDS!! Love you, "OLD FRIEND!"

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