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    5/13/2009

    Born To Be Mild?

    As I get older, that edge I once teetered on no longer is an edge.  It's more a quiet stroll amongst the herd with no edge in sight.  I can't begin to tell you my dislike for mellowing with age and although it seems to happen to the best of us, every now and then when that wild hair still tickles, I still listen.  Okay, it's not exactly a wild hair anymore.  It's more like an annoying itch that needs to be scratched. 
     
    I scratched my itch the other day when I went to see Star Trek. I suppose after watching something that made me think about my mispent youth, I was inspired to scratch the itch by doing a double feature (the second movie I didn't pay to see).  I walked out of one movie and into another.  There definitely are advantages of being an average middle-aged woman.  So I sat and watched The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past with a smile on my face.  When I realized I was smiling at my own actions and not at anything I was watching, I laughed out loud.  Age really has mellowed me and that wildhair is so easily sated these days.

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    Rudywrote:
    A quiet stroll is good for the soul, and a laugh from within is no sin. Be at peace my new friend.
    Aug. 26
    Deborahwrote:
    Like Doug I am commenting here to urge another blog from you. I have been remiss I confess since becoming addicted to Evony, a multi-player on line game. I know, shame on me at my age, chatting with teenage boys about how best to attack the enemy. What am I thinking!!!
    Blessed be
    June 11
    Hey Kitten!
    You finally came back.
    June 11
    Jockwrote:
    When number two son was young, I "forced" him to sneak into a second movie. "Forced is his word, not mine. At the time I thought nothing of it, other than to, hopefully, show the brat that dad was cool enough to do something so wild and spontaneous. Unfortunately, it didn't work out as I had hoped. He bitched and moaned about how wrong it was to do such a thing, and was afraid we were going to get caught and thrown out. After the guilt trip, I decided to leave, so we never really saw much of the movie anyway.

    To this day he reminds me of how I scarred his life. Okay, on the surface, it makes me happy to know that he remained true to his upbringing and knew that sneaking in without paying was wrong. And it was, of course, and i should not have put him in the situation but, underneath it all I still think...what a little tightass.

    Your sneaking in may be mild compared to the wild of your youth, but at least you're not a tightass.

    June 1
    Douglaswrote:
    Hey toots!

    When's your next post coming?
    May 26
    Dear Karen, Just wishing you a good, great, safe, abnormal, and meaningful Memorial Day Weekend and
    as ever be well
    May 24
    dying2diewrote:
    hi there
    wow
    welll that sounds fun, keep your heart young
    Take care
    regards
    May 24
    Hi Karen, sneaking into a movie was one of my favorite thrills as a kid. It just goes to show little Karen is still in there, alive & well!
    May 15
    Dear Karen, I laugh and cry at even stupid movies. Thank God!
    And thank you for being a good-great friend.
    As ever be well, Stepnen Craig Rowe
    May 14
    Deborahwrote:
    I am so grateful that you wandered by my blog and commented. It brought me here with invitation in hand. This is the kind of blog that has kept me blogging in LiveSpaces for five years. Through all the ups and downs and changes, which is life! I have thought of leaving here and following other's whos blogs are but ghost towns now, but stayed. Every so often I stumble upon (no not as in dot.com, just a phrase) or have someone special like you find me, and doesn't it feel good? I read your previous blog, and now I am off to discover this tinman, and having just perused the comment of Doug Taylor, must go check him out as well. I feel as if I was just given an injection of Vitamin B (I'm buzzing Dude!) isn't this fun?
    Blessed be
    May 14
    LOL!
    You GO, girl!
    Dragon
    May 13
    Douglaswrote:
    Enjoyed reading this... It was nice to see how normal people with abnormal traits think and act as they grow older. As for myself, I donno, I can't really relate in the milder part. Musically speaking, I am loving the most hardest and abrasive anti-social and Goth music in my life. I am writing more now both as a novelist and a blogger than ever before. I am also into exposing the BS in government and politics more than ever before.

    I think I am speeding up in my old age rather than slowing down or becoming milder. I am certainly more wiser these days and with every passing day. Shit, I don't know what else to say?
    May 13

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