Fifty Things To Do WHEN I am 50

Saw a blog, awhile back...a list of 30 things some young whipper-snapper wanted to accomplish/do before she turned the ripe old age of 30. It sure caused me a lot of thought...days of thought: while driving, while running (45 minutes means a lot of thought), while laundering...I really thought a lot! Now, I am really not the kind of person with a list of unrealized dreams. Till last Winter, I wanted to see the Christmas Tree in front of Rockefeller Center, see the lovely store windows in New Yok City at Christmas time... You see, I said "till last Winter". I watched the weather reports, I checked weather.com, and saw the actual temperatures there, in the Winter...Oh, my heck...they were absolutely klondike-ish. One thing about me...I absolutely, totally HATE to be cold! So, that trip, in those awful, cold, non-Arizona temperatures...is totally NOT a desire at all, any more,ever! I couldn't even come up with a list of 10 things I want to do before I turn 50. The other issue is that I turn 50 on July 4th...not much time to do anything by then.

Then, another issue came up...and I got an idea. First, the issue. I love hearing teenagers say that they cannot wait to be an adult, for then they will be able to do whatever they want to, whenever they want to. Huh? Hey, wait, I thought I was an adult, but I certainly can almost NEVER do whatever I want to, whenever I want to!!! Then, the self realization that, hey I have been on this earth 50 years...a half a century...and I still am NOT what a 16 year old sees as "an adult". So...my idea...for my 50th birthday, and the year that begins on July 4th, 2010 (now, I do know it will be my 51st year on the earth, but, hey it's my idea, my birthday!) I get to be an ADULT! And here, I will compile a list of what things I will...or won't do... since I get to do/not do what I want/don't want to do...this year...as I turn 50...my first year of being an adult. So, as things come to me, you get my list...as it grows...to be, hopefully, 50...and, also hopefully, not 500!


Fifty Things to Do When I am 50

1. I am not going to go out to lunch with anyone, anytime, anywhere. (Silly to many, but I hate to go out to lunch! I get "guilt-ed" by kind and well meaning people...they make me feel like I am some inferior person because I don't like to go out to lunch. I have a fault that must be "fixed" so they make me go...I eat a few pieces of lettuce that cost that poor person waaaaay to much. They feel they have taken a step in correcting my personality flaw...and I go home, day shot, not happy, and often hungry cuz I didn't get to eat what I wanted to.) So, my first step to being an adult, the first of 50...As an adult, I will not eat lunch out, because I don't like to!
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