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Hello 2024!
By: Adrea Nairne-Barrera / Senior Moments
Here we go again! What little surprises are in
store for us this year?
Will you get a new dog? Find out you won
mega bucks? How about vacation plans? Redecorate?
Overall, does anything ever surprise you?
My personal wish regarding The Vegas Voice is I hope I don’t run
out of ideas.
Moving on, I want to stay the way I am now. I’m happy with myself
most of the time and I’m accepting aging with determination. They
say one should accept it with grace but that never seems to be my style.
Determination keeps you on your toes, makes your brain work better
and overall takes on challenges. It makes me fight harder to return to
my version of normal.
And my friendships seem to be intact so far. A few have wandered
away from me but that’s their choice to do.
The friends I’ve had for 30 to 60 years are still part of my life and
we get to complain and moan together. We get better and better at it
every year!
2024 promises to bring some opportunities professionally so the idea
of retirement is way out in the future somewhere. I am still working
and secretly hoping I don’t screw up.
Sometimes I burn out early in the day and I’ve introduced myself
to napping in the afternoon. I truly never expected that but I have to
admit I like it!
I will still record my soap so I can skip the commercials, watch court
shows and sit with my guy watching almost every Dateline there ever
was. I can now tell you 300 ways to kill someone and get on TV.
I don’t ever know if readers find me interesting or not. But I like
putting random thoughts down with remarkable events from my
senior life. I measure things differently so I don’t want to waste time
on some long-drawn-out superficial project that is built to last longer
than me.
2024 is my now. I hope it will be filled with instant gratification
along the way. Let’s do this thing!
Adrea likes to opine and find the lighter side of life as a senior.
January 2024
New Year, New Laughs
By: Bill Caserta / Bill’s Blurbs
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Perks of reaching the New Year, being
60+ and reading my column in The
Vegas Voice
1. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
2. In a hostage situation you are likely to be
released first.
3. No one expects you to run - anywhere.
4. People call at 9 pm and ask: “Did I wake you?”
5. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
7. Things you buy now won’t wear out.
8. You can eat supper at 4 pm.
9. You can live without sex - but not your glasses.
10. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
11. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
12. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks
into the room.
13. You sing along with elevator music.
14. Your eyes won’t get much worse.
15. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay
off.
16. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the National
Weather Service.
17. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can’t
remember them either.
18. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.
19. You can’t remember this column or the name of our magazine.
**Words of Wisdom
1. When people say, “Enjoy them while they are young” they’re
talking about your knees and hips, not your grandkids.
2. Apparently exercise helps you with decision making. It’s true. I
went for a run this morning and decided I’m never going again.
3. And by the way, never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping
pill and a laxative on the same night.