The List of Lists

Hubby has a new game. And he's enjoying it tremendously. He'll stand over me while I'm seated, bend his head down to my ear, and murmur sweetly:

"Oh look! I have bags under my eyes!"

He is such a charmer.

Excuse me, while I go burn his dinner and hide his remote.

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We were compiling our "Top 10 List" and couldn't decide whether to call it "Things That Make Us Laugh", "What Were They Thinking", or "Dumb, Dumb and Dumber". You decide.

10. Somalian pirates firing on French naval flagship. Oops.

9. Bank robber who swipes his ATM card before handing teller the hold-up note.

8. Congress passing bills without reading them

7. Actually, anything Congress does ...

6. That $25,000 electric Cupcake Car in the Neiman Marcus' Christmas Book

5. Bathroom Breaks Before Boarding -- on Nippon Airlines

4. A dancing Tom DeLay -- and those red pants

3. One-Child Rule: China's Gender Imbalance Leaves 30 Million Men Without Wives

2. Rare Hunk of Elvis' Hair Up for Auction

1. NASA bombing the moon

'SOUNDS-LIKE' WINNERS:
Who do the descriptions make you think of? We picked our choices; send us yours.

1. IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN: Glenn Beck
2. WE LOVE TO ABHOR: Tie between Nancy Pelosi and Michael Moore
3. NEVER THOUGHT WE'D FEEL SORRY FOR: Hillary Clinton
4. NEXT OUT THE DOOR: Safe School Czar Kevin Jennings (we hope)
5. COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED TO A NICER GUY: Roman Polanski

Young Fogeys ...

Just got off the phone from talking with a longtime girlfriend. And we both wound up lamenting those sudden aches and pains of old age.

And we're both only 23 ... or 24 ... well, give or take a few decades that we won't talk about.

Forgetting the pains, there are multiple advantages to aging ... one being all the fond memories you acquire.

I still recall 5-year-old son, Alex, sitting on a hilltop at the town fair one cool summer evening. We'd wandered past all the arcades, he had ridden all the rides and now we were enjoying greasy hamburgers from the food court.

But when he looked up at me and said "this is the best-est hamburger ever" ... one of those moments was made.

While that moment is only in my memory, others are in the myriad boxes of images and negatives stuffed in my closets. Lately, I've been repackaging our photo albums, trying to get these into some semblance of order. But it is slow going -- trust me, there are a LOT of pictures.

We all go through stages in life, and growing old is just another -- but maybe one that is much more entertaining. We can wear loud colors and bright purple hats with enormous feathers. We can eat, sleep, drink, and - most importantly - shop when we want. We can be as eccentric, outspoken, cranky or opinionated as we want. We get a reprieve and can practice all that early childhood behavior we once learned to control.

And what happens? Everyone chalks it up to old age. If I'd known it was this much fun, I would have turned old long ago.

The only thing I have not figured out is this business about weight. I always thought when you got old enough, it wouldn't matter what you weighed. Who would care. You could get fat.

But, sigh, I must not be that old yet. For all the fun and hollaring, am still on a diet. Go figure.

Maybe in another 10 or 20 years ...