Love & A Geriatric Gratitude Journal from Grandma’s Attic
Volume: Soft Sigh from a Sugar High
Issue: Happy Valentine’s Day!
Date: February 14, 2022
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”—Charles Schulz
Love & A Geriatric Gratitude Journal from Grandma’s Attic
Ever play Grandma’s Attic as a kid when sitting in the back seat of that non-air-conditioned, rusty old Studebaker on that hot, sticky, boring four-hour summer car ride to Ocean City, Maryland? If not, here’s how it goes:
Kid#1 starts: “I was in Grandma’s attic and I saw an Alligator eating Applesauce.”
Kid#2 repeats what kid#1 said and adds, alphabetically: “and I saw a Balloon and a Bicycle.”
Then the game goes on, each kid repeating everything and adding alphabetically until someone flubs up.
Well, for some Valentine’s fun, let’s take that 20th-century Grandma’s Attic game and combine it with the 21st-century Gratitude Journal concept… and expand the whole Valentine’s Day Love Theme into a Valentine’s Day Love-Them List.|
So…in case you are still semi-quarantining and bored out of your gourd, here is a page from a Gratitude Journal found in Grandma’s attic, a personal love list of old fogey faves, shaken, not stirred, with a geriatric twist.
My Geriatric Gratitude Journal
February 14, Valentine’s Day
“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.”—Dave Barry
I am so grateful for these— they help me find inner peace and comfort and joy in my older years…
Almond Joys, Alzheimer’s research, Apple Pie, Advil, Alexa, Amazon, Alzheimer’s research (did I already list that?)
Baby Ruths, BinexNox, B movie romcoms, Botox, Ben Gay, Ben & Jerry, Boosters, Bucket Lists, Book Clubs
Crunch Bars, Compression stockings, Coloring Books, Clairol (aka Clearold), Cats, Cialis w/o the bathtubs, Cpaps that don’t resemble Darth Vader masks
Dots, Door Dash, Do-nuts, Do-nuttin’ Days, Dentures that don’t dent my wallet, Dogs, DIY projects
Eyepoppers, Easy Sunday mornings in bed with an Easy crossword or an Easy partner, Extra-Strength Tylenol, Essential Oils, EBikes, Elastic waistbands, Etsy
Fun Dips, Fast men, Fast cars, FitBits, Fireworks, Fast men in Fast cars checking FitBits after the Fireworks
Good ‘n’ Plentys, Grandkids, Granddogs, Grandcats, Golf carts, Google health scare searches that are reassuring, Gardening
Hershey Kisses, Hugs, Healthy lab results, Hip Replacements, Heating Pads, Hot tubs, Hot men, Hearing Aids, Hearing men
IceCubes, Independent living, Instagram, InstaPot (the cooker, not my belly after five beers!)
Jelly Beans, Jeans that show off my butt, Jingle Bell Rock, Jello before a colonoscopy, Junk food after a colonoscopy
Kit Kats, Knitting, Knee Replacements, KN95s
Lemon Heads, Love in all shapes, sizes, colors, species, Laxatives, Laughter
M & Ms (all colors, genders!), #Metoo, Miralax, Medicare, Mary Janes (the shoe style and the other), Medicine organizers
Now and Laters, Now and Later sex, Neti Pots, Negative PCRs, Noom, Neck scarves, Netflix
Oh Henry!s, O-O-O-Ozempic, Olympic Games, Oxygen tanks, Orgasms, Outlander, Orgasms on Outlander
Peanut Butter Cups, Precious Old Dames and Dudes, Pickleball, Pelotons, Prosthetics, Prunes followed by Preparation-H
Quince Candys, Queso, Queen’s “We are the Champions,” Quickies, Questions like “Did you lose weight?”
Rolos, Roses from someone special, Regular glasses to help find my Reading glasses, Racquetball, Retin-A (where are Retin-B,-C, and -D when you need them?)
Starbursts, Steamy Campbell’s tomato soup, Steamy baths, Steamy Sex, Salon Pas after Steamy Sex, Sweatpants, Shoe Horns, Smiles
Twix, Time with beloveds, Turtlenecks, Tummy Tucks, Tennis, Trilogy, Tunic Tops, Teeth Whiteners, Teeth to whiten
Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls, Underwear that’s sexy w/o that string thing that goes thong between your buns, Umbrellas that aren’t gone with the wind, Ugly Christmas Sweaters, Uber Eats
Valentine Hearts, Valentine’s Day, Vaccines, Viagra, Vibrators, Viagra+Vibrators
Whoppers, Whoppers on men, Weighted blankets, White New Balance sneakers, Walkers (for me and for dogs), Wining, Whining, Words with Friends (the game, not the conflict!)
Xtremes AirHeads, Xxx from British friends, Xrays that say it’s OK, Xrated movies, Xanax
York Peppermint Pattys, Yoga, Yogurt, Yoga while eating Yogurt in a Yurt (thank you for the inspiration, Dr. Seuss!)
Zero Bars, Zooming with grandkids and friends, Zzzzzs in the afternoon, Zany writing (you bet!!!)
Please feel free to email-share these Valentine laughs with your Precious Old Dames or Precious Old Dudes!
Hoping you are showered with love and chocolate and filled with Geriatric Gratitude this Valentine’s Day!
Irene