Today's Bonus Thought for Labor day 9.3 (A bit Long)

The Simple Life







I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided
I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.



I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I
want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with
rocks.



I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want
to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a
hot summer's day.



I want to return to a time when life was simple; when all you knew were
colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother
you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All
you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the
things that should make you worried or upset.



I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I
want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the
complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.



I want to live simple again.



I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork,
depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money
in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.



I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice,
peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.



So . . . here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my
401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood.

And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first,
'cause..."Tag! You're it."




--
AZ

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 15:01:42 -0500, "AZ" <azikra@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> The Simple Life
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>I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided
>I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.
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>I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I
>want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with
>rocks.
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>I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want
>to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a
>hot summer's day.
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>I want to return to a time when life was simple; when all you knew were
>colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother
>you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All
>you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the
>things that should make you worried or upset.
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>I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I
>want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the
>complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.
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> I want to live simple again.
>
>
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>I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork,
>depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money
>in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.
>
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>I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice,
>peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.
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>So . . . here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my
>401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood.
>
>And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first,
>'cause..."Tag! You're it."

<sniff> <wipes tear from eye>
Sue

/me looks frantically for the lyrics to "I Won't Grow Up"!!!

Go Az, Go!!!

FlatironMike
Friend of PeterPan
Six months, three weeks, two days, 17 hours, 40 minutes and 1 second.
4094 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,228.17. Life saved: 2 weeks, 5
hours, 10 minutes.

I am all for it. Do you think maybe if we got a petition together
they'd let us??

>And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first,
>'cause..."Tag! You're it."

Tag!!!! Now you're it!!!

/me runs off into the woods....
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BessieBee

"If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain"
Steven Wright

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:00:06 -0000, writer272002
<writer272002@gmail.com> wrote:

>I am all for it. Do you think maybe if we got a petition together
>they'd let us??
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>

No petition or permission needed. Just do it. :-)

--
BessieBee

"If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain"
Steven Wright

me toooooo!!!!!
/me filling up balloons with water

--
Lynn VOF Leaper

"AZ" <azikra@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:nKZCi.51440$U24.39882@bignews5.bellsouth.net. ..
> The Simple Life
> I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have
> decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old
> again.
>
> And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first,
> 'cause..."Tag! You're it."
>
> --
> AZ
>

On Sep 3, 5:37 pm, "Lynn" <lynn.sc...@ns.spammenot.sympatico.ca>
wrote:
> me toooooo!!!!!
> /me filling up balloons with water
>
> --
> Lynn VOF Leaper
>
> "AZ" <azi...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> news:nKZCi.51440$U24.39882@bignews5.bellsouth.net. ..
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> > The Simple Life
> > I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have
> > decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old
> > again.
>
> > And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first,
> > 'cause..."Tag! You're it."
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> > AZ- Hide quoted text -
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I don't know if resigning as an adult is what's called for here.
I think what's needed is some sort of "Blow up your T.V. throw away
your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches....." type thing.
Marvie,, you got that one?

Whoooo! If I'm going to the country, I am taking my TV with me. How else
can I watch Bugs Bunny and Leghorn, I said, Leghorn Foghorn?

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AZ
"DavidL" <davidlipschutz@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1188877994.810286.256140@22g2000hsm.googlegro ups.com...
> On Sep 3, 5:37 pm, "Lynn" <lynn.sc...@ns.spammenot.sympatico.ca>
> wrote:
>> me toooooo!!!!!
>> /me filling up balloons with water
>>
>> --
>> Lynn VOF Leaper
>>
>> "AZ" <azi...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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>> news:nKZCi.51440$U24.39882@bignews5.bellsouth.net. ..
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>> > The Simple Life
>> > I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have
>> > decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old
>> > again.
>>
>> > And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first,
>> > 'cause..."Tag! You're it."
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>> > AZ- Hide quoted text -
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> I don't know if resigning as an adult is what's called for here.
> I think what's needed is some sort of "Blow up your T.V. throw away
> your paper
> Go to the country, build you a home
> Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches....." type thing.
> Marvie,, you got that one?
>

Once upon a time, AZ said:

>I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided
>I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.

Beautiful post AZ. Thank you!

--
Tihomir *I don't smoke anymore*
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irc://irc.starlink.org/nosmokers

VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. -- Ambrose Bierce