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| Wheels! |
Go outside & play!
That is what I heard when I was little, after Captain Kangaroo & Romper Room. The TV was off until my mom's stories were on in the afternoon & I was kicked outside to play. Free to roam the neighborhood, only required to be home when the street lights came on. Ah, those were the days!
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| 9th grade |
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| My 1st car |
When I was a teen all I wanted to do was be OUT of the house, I didn't mind being IN my friends' houses, I just didn't want to be at MY house! As soon as I got home I would turn on the TV to watch Dark Shadows, House Party & Lloyd Thaxton & then do my homework. After that, if I weren't on restriction I was out of there! If I were on restriction I would sit in the front window, watching who went by and wishing to God I was not cooped up in the house. By the way, I was on restriction a lot - I had a bad habit of climbing out of my bedroom window. I was bad, what can I say.
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| Danny & me, ready for a walk. |
Nothing changed after I had my 1st son, we walked EVERY day, rain or shine. I think that is why he was rarely sick. But then things changed and I started having more kids and I got a car. (I got the car after my dad died, before that it was my mom's car.) I stopped walking but I was gone a lot in the car. I can pretty much say I maintained that MO until just recently. Now, if I don't have to go out I won't. If I have to go out, I don't want to. I mean I go to work everyday and all that, just when I am home I don't want to leave. Have I finally settled down? Has my restlessness subsided? I know I don't have any kind of agoraphobia. I guess it is just that I have so many things to hold my interest at home now.
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| This is where I am right now! |
I know I might need to go out and I just don't want to and I really don't have to. It is hot outside, maybe that is the problem. I don't like hot so much any more. Gas costs too much, maybe that is it. I am too fat, maybe that is it. Who the hell knows, but I wish I could just find a happy medium.
