What I've Learned Since High School Could Fill A Book
Today is the *hands over mouth* year anniversary of my high school graduation. One would hope to have learned much in the intervening years, right? While I can't help but marvel at how many years it's been, I also realize I've learned more since than I ever did in school.
The list is long, but then when you've been out of school for *hands over mouth* years, the lessons come fast and furious and in great numbers, usually at the hands of your children, who are after all, the great equalizers. Lest we think you're "all that," have a kid or two and you'll soon discover you aren't and never were - ask them, they'll tell you with great relish.
Beside that point, here's a not so comprehensive list of what I've learned since those days of walking down the hallowed halls of good old NLCS:
1. Potato chips and chocolate cupcakes have a LONG hip life - there ought to be warning labels, with diagrams.
2. How to find all those socks the washer eats - answer is easy - son moves out. Duh!
3. Clean clothes really don't magically appear in closets and dressers - a real human being puts them there - guess who? Oh, and Mom usually doesn't go with you when you move out, that's why they call it growing up and moving away.
4. No one else will ever fold your underwear again, but you'll make a career of folding for others - Hmm - Is there a union for this stuff?
5. Don't put red stuff in the washer with whites, unless of course you prefer that lovely muted shade of pink. (Hubby doesn't!)
6. Okay, this one is embarrassing, but in my defense, I was just out of high school and newly married - raw shrimp are gray, and it isn't the cocktail sauce that gives them that nice pink tint. True story - but it was kind of funny when our guests said they'd never seen gray shrimp before. Hmm, maybe I invented sushi and didn't know it.
7. Spacing my children was the wisest thing I ever did - yeah, enough said there. Childbirth hurts, damn it!
8. You really can't go home - because you take home with you wherever you go. Along with all the "stuff" you can' live without. That's where my five-year rule comes from - if I haven't used it in five years, hubby has permission to dispose of it without asking. Except of course that old record player that I might want to use someday, you know, when 45s come back into vogue.
9. Those you love don't live forever. When you learn this one, you'll really learn to LIVE and not just play at it.
10. The voices in my head are only characters clamoring for a voice - Phew! Had me worried for a few years there.
11. Talking to myself is my way of introducing my characters to one another. Nothing more, I promise.
12. Sometimes the best things in life really do come to those who wait.
13. The meaning of friend changes over the years. A lesson that is fraught with hurt and great reward. Love you Deb, Deb and Deb. (I'm one of those people who has amassed many friends of the same name)
14. The love of that one special person is worth all the toads you have to kiss to find them.
15. Marry your best friend - that covers lots of bases.
16. Marry one that can cook - this eliminates the pesky potato chip, chocolate cupcake and raw shrimp lessons.
17. Coffee is still the elixir of the Gods.
Hard won lessons all, learned over time, sometimes with the added incentive of a brick upside the head.
What have you learned since high school? I'd love to know.
Hugs,
Brita
The list is long, but then when you've been out of school for *hands over mouth* years, the lessons come fast and furious and in great numbers, usually at the hands of your children, who are after all, the great equalizers. Lest we think you're "all that," have a kid or two and you'll soon discover you aren't and never were - ask them, they'll tell you with great relish.
Beside that point, here's a not so comprehensive list of what I've learned since those days of walking down the hallowed halls of good old NLCS:
1. Potato chips and chocolate cupcakes have a LONG hip life - there ought to be warning labels, with diagrams.
2. How to find all those socks the washer eats - answer is easy - son moves out. Duh!
3. Clean clothes really don't magically appear in closets and dressers - a real human being puts them there - guess who? Oh, and Mom usually doesn't go with you when you move out, that's why they call it growing up and moving away.
4. No one else will ever fold your underwear again, but you'll make a career of folding for others - Hmm - Is there a union for this stuff?
5. Don't put red stuff in the washer with whites, unless of course you prefer that lovely muted shade of pink. (Hubby doesn't!)
6. Okay, this one is embarrassing, but in my defense, I was just out of high school and newly married - raw shrimp are gray, and it isn't the cocktail sauce that gives them that nice pink tint. True story - but it was kind of funny when our guests said they'd never seen gray shrimp before. Hmm, maybe I invented sushi and didn't know it.
7. Spacing my children was the wisest thing I ever did - yeah, enough said there. Childbirth hurts, damn it!
8. You really can't go home - because you take home with you wherever you go. Along with all the "stuff" you can' live without. That's where my five-year rule comes from - if I haven't used it in five years, hubby has permission to dispose of it without asking. Except of course that old record player that I might want to use someday, you know, when 45s come back into vogue.
9. Those you love don't live forever. When you learn this one, you'll really learn to LIVE and not just play at it.
10. The voices in my head are only characters clamoring for a voice - Phew! Had me worried for a few years there.
11. Talking to myself is my way of introducing my characters to one another. Nothing more, I promise.
12. Sometimes the best things in life really do come to those who wait.
13. The meaning of friend changes over the years. A lesson that is fraught with hurt and great reward. Love you Deb, Deb and Deb. (I'm one of those people who has amassed many friends of the same name)
14. The love of that one special person is worth all the toads you have to kiss to find them.
15. Marry your best friend - that covers lots of bases.
16. Marry one that can cook - this eliminates the pesky potato chip, chocolate cupcake and raw shrimp lessons.
17. Coffee is still the elixir of the Gods.
Hard won lessons all, learned over time, sometimes with the added incentive of a brick upside the head.
What have you learned since high school? I'd love to know.
Hugs,
Brita
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Jun 23, 2011 02:20PM
Cute list. What I've learned since high school is don't look back. There is nothing you can do about it now anyway.
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