I woke up this morning and was thinking about what a wonderful day it is today. My computer is working just fine. My son got to school on time. The paper was in the driveway where it was supposed to be...as opposed to wet from the sprinkler or scattered by the wind all over the neighborhood. The sun is shining. It's not too hot or too cold. The birds are singing. The ducks are swimming in the lake followed by their newborn ducklings. I got an email from my brother. Shock, gasp! Granted it was only to give me a new email address for him and his family. All is well with my world. So why am I sitting here worrying? I'm a Arizonan but I was born and raised in Minnesota. And as all Minnesotans know for a fact, "If everything is going just right....something must be coming around the corner to kick you in the ass."

While I sit here warily, waiting for something awful to happen, I'll pass on this little "funny" that was sent to me by a friend. She's married to a Minnesotan.


RESIGNATION

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." >>>>>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lol>>>>>>>>> :-)