I've been divorced for about 17 years now. At first, I found myself always looking for someone to be with. Now, I LOVE being single. And I, too, think my married friends sometimes envy me. I've gone to SEVERAL weddings solo & had a blast! Now, I have a single female friend who people swear we're attached at the hip. Her family thinks it's great that we pal around. They say that way, she's not as quick to go for the first guy who hits on her just to keep from being alone!
As long as you have good friends (like I do) you may be single, but you're never alone!
All the time here! My mom used to get so mad at me because I loved to take butter bread & put my spaghetti in it & make a spaghetti sandwich!
I'm going out with a dear friend for dinner tonight. Then it's off to tailgate & listen to the Rush concert with a young hottie I met this week. He's leaving to go back to Canada tomorrow, with his co-workers. He was in town to teach a hockey camp.
Irishlass, I remember, when I lived in Mississippi as a little girl... picking berries off of the bushes & eating them! Also finding toads & taking them home. We lived near the beach, so we'd take styrofoam cups & collect minnows, taking them home & setting them on our headboards to watch them.
I used to live behind a hotel in a tourist town... just moved from there. Well, last year, someone punched out my driver's door lock during the annual car show.
We lived in Biloxi, Mississippi when I was very little. But then my father got stationed up here. So, when I was about 11, our family took our camper & went on a summer-long vacation down to Biloxi. We went on our friends' shrimp boat for the "Blessing of the Fleet", which was sooo much fun! During that same summer, we visited New Orleans (where we went to the French Quarter), Disney World, SeaWorld, went across Lake Ponchetrain Bridge, & visited several of our parents' friends in various states. What an ADVENTURE!! I LOVE to travel!
After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver's license to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home.
I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.
The woman said, 'Unbutton your shirt'.
So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair. She said, 'That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me' and she processed my Social Security applic ation.
When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office.
She said, 'You should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten disability, too'
My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.
My wife asked, 'Do you know her?'
'Yes,' I sighed, 'She's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't Been sober since.'
'My God!' says my wife, 'Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?'
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Rest in Peace, Estelle Getty
I'll miss her!