Scribbles by ME

Getting Old is Hell!

I have become an expert on getting old and when I am not having any senior moments, I have decided to make a list of why!
1.  Mind works, body not so well.
2.  The hot 20-year-olds used to be me.  I used to have an 18 inch waist.
3.  When I arrive in the bedroom, from some other room in the house I have forgotten why I came to the bedroom.
4.  Then, I remember what I was doing and needed to end up in the kitchen, not the bedroom.
5.  My cell phone which goes off roughly once a week....in a good week.  Scares the hell out me.
6.  I can't find my cell phone most of the time.
7.  I make it a habit never to look in a mirror because when I do, I am scared to death.  Who is that old person in my house and why are they here?
8.  When I sit down to weed the garden, it takes all four appendages to get me back up.
9.  I now know why the wooden cut-out of the old fat lady bending over in the yard is funny.
10. I can't recognize people I knew well only 15 years ago.
11.  I can think for three days trying to remember a vocabulary word that used to roll off the tongue so easily.
12.  People--a long, long, long time ago--used to think I looked to old to be my son's mother.
13.  I ruined my body for my sons and they forget they have a mother....except when they suggest I need to come see them.  Forget, that apparently the road only runs in one direction.
14.  My high school students no longer call me Momma Estes but Granny Estes.
15.  I forgot the rest right now, but will add them every three days when I remember another.