As the old year is passing away......

Observations On Growing Older

* It's harder to tell navy from black.
* Everything old is new again, but if you wore it before, you're too old to wear it the 2nd time around.
* Your kids are becoming you -- and you don't like them, but your grandchildren are perfect!
* Yellow becomes the big color -- walls need paint, hair need tinting, teeth need whitening.
* 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.
* You forget names, but it's OK because other people forgot they ever knew you.
* The last 2 outfits you wore had spots on them.
* You ask your husband or friend how your outfit looks, and they tell you the truth.
* The five 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.
* The things you cared to do, you don't care to do, but you care that you don't care to do them anymore.
* 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. Won't they cut them off anyway?
* You used to say, "I hope my kids GET married; now it's, "I hope they STAY married!"
* Who wants to wear 3" heels anyway?
* 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 use more 4 letter words -- "what?"..."when?" and "where's my"
* Now that you can afford expensive jewelry, it's not safe to wear it anywhere.
* You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you've read it.
* Notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"?
* Many of the people in People Magazine you've never heard of.
* Your concealer doesn't conceal.
* Your lipstick bleeds.
* Your mascara clumps, and your eyebrows are disappearing.
* You don't have hair under your arms and very little on your legs, but your chin needs to be plucked daily.
* 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 again.
* But old is good in some things -- old songs, old movies, and best of all -- old friends!

Sent to me by my oldest sister, Carol. This had my name written all over it!!! Except the retired husband part, of course....