WHAT SUCKS ABOUT BEING SINGLE, (and kidless)

1. No one is there to put salve or cream in the very middle part of your back that you can't reach after getting a really bad sunburn. 2. No spooning. Or kissing, amongst a host of other physical niceties. 3. Only food can become your little reward after accomplishing some great feat and wanting to celebrate. 4. Having someone to take pictures of while you're doing cool things, so you can look at them years later and think, "now weren't those the true salad days." 5. No one around to steal bites of dessert from when they are not looking. 6. And in correlation with number 5, you never do go out to eat at a restaurant, because if you do you sit there all alone like some dork with no one to talk to. 7. And sometimes you can find yourself getting too monked out and serious because there is no one around to pull jokes on. Just like the other day. I was up on the hill cleaning out the neighborhood irrigation ditch with a rake before the water flowed. And across the ditch was this waist high tree going perfectly horizontal. So i laid over it with feet and hands dangling down to rest my back. And out loud, without even thinking, i said, "Hey Lynne, what's this?" Meaning who's this person dangling there. And then i say, "Earthquake victim in China!" And i laughed to myself, then realized i was talking crazy-like to myself and making fun in a not so nice way. But i always used to do crazy stuff like that. Especially when the kids were little. Like whenever i would see Shane and Shilo piling off the bus out front of Lynne's house, I'd run to find the hugest knife i could and stick it between my chest and arm and be all sprawled out dead like on the living room floor. Then when they walked in they would always just step over me saying, "Yeah right Pop, sheesh." No shock. No nothing. But i keep doing it anyway. So i really miss getting to joke around like that for sure. HOBO

Comments

[Mary]

I was checking out some of your photos - I really like the one uploaded June 17 from Wizard Falls. It's so cool to see you actually working on the MC!

[Shilo the coolest daughter ever]

Ha ha pops, you are a funny one! But we must get one thing straight, you are not kidless. I am still here, and always will be. And now my little munchkin is yours too, so sorry but your still with us for like, awhile atleast. Well forever actually. HA!