The Next 50 Years

I can't for the life of me figure out how I feel for the "Tiger Test" thing. It has been a long time since I felt that stupid about something. Certainly something so obvious. I am glad you had such a good laugh about my gullibility.

I can't wait for summer. Or really I should say I can't wait for some nice weather. Friday night was really cool. Nice night. Sitting on the patio, talking, drinking some beers and just being together. It kind of struck me that we have like 50 more years of time together. 50 more years of killing time together. 50 more years of talking, sitting, sharing and just being together.

So I figured I would figure out a few things for us to do during the next 50 years while we are killing time.

1) "Learn a new card game." It appears I am a bit out of my realm here. I taught you to plan gin rummy and then you promptly spend the next 20 years kicking my ass at the very game I taught you. We can't play regular rummy because you beat me to death at that as well. I am thinking "war" might be good, because it is all luck and no strategy.

2) "Come to common ground on some music." This one is one we have made plenty of progress on in the past 20 years. I remember just how "grossed out" you were at my music when we first started dating. I know you were just being polite when you listened and hated every note. Now there are few you actually like. Since I am never going to be a fan "70's music", we are going to have to find a band or 5 we both agree are acceptable. Then once we get some new speakers on the back patio (maybe as part of us getting a new back patio) we can pipe in something we both enjoy.

3) "Tell stories about our children's married lives". This one just scares the heck out of me. I can see it now. We have a whole new array people to talk about. We will talk about their husbands, their husbands family, their husbands friends....the list goes on. We will have a whole new family of stories and "gossip" to talk about. I can only imagine the stupid things they will doing to give us plenty of ammo for our conversations.

4) "Tell stories about our grandchildren". I can only imagine the awesome things they will do. They will present us with dozens of years of wonderful discussion about the cute things they do, about how proud of them we are, how proud of their parents we are and how happy all of that makes us every day.

5) "Have plenty of 'alone' time". See with no one else around we will have ample to time to "get to know each other". I can only imagine how this will work during the 40th or 45th years of the next 50 years.

So see I have some plans for us and our time over the next 5 decades. We will have a lot of time to fill. Most of it will be spent holding hands. Looking at each other. Smiling at each other. Arguing about dumb stuff. But it will be time spent together. I can't wait.

You're the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.