Seriously?

I spent most of today lounging on the couch, watching Lifetime Television. Then, my husband comes in and gets possession of the remote. Within two minutes the channel flippin’ begins – AMC, TNT, ABC, etc. Seriously? What is it with guys that force them to change the station every five seconds? Are they afraid they’re gonna miss something?

I remember when I was young… we had two channels on the television that came in good – 3 and 11 – and two other channels that my dad had to go outside and move the antenna around to get in on a windy day – 32 and 41. The only remote my dad had was me! You found something even slightly interesting on tv, you watched it til it was over. Seriously!

Yesterday my three and half year old granddaughter was at our house. She received about TWENTY new toys, that she can keep here, for Christmas. (These toys were from us, her dad, my mom, sister and friends – not just from us.) She played with nearly every single one sometime during the day. Then, last night, she came to me and said she was bored! Seriously?

When I was a child, we got ONE big present for Christmas and a COUPLE of small things. The rest of our presents were clothes. We never got BORED around our house, because if we did, my dad would happily find something to occupy our time. Seriously! (Gosh, I feel like I’m gonna break out in….”and we walked to school, up-hill – both ways” LOL.)

It’s amazing to me how much “things” (and we) change in the years from childhood to adulthood. But, if we don’t lose our sense of humor, I’ll think we’ll be okay.

Seriously.