How Much Money Do You Need?!

(Foggy Day In Santiago - Original Painting by SwissRivieraArt)

      I won't get into the details this morning, but hubby and I got into a conversation about how much money we would need to live comfortably. Not exorbitantly! But Comfortably. You know...the light, heat, telephone, and cable bills paid on time every month, and not having to worry about where we were gonna live!

      When we were younger the amount would have been TOTALLY different! That's because when we were younger, when we were teenagers, I'm talking about, we both had crazy ideas about what we would do with our lives!...Hubby's ideas included his owning his own grocery store, or chain of stores. And mine included me becoming a famous singer!....Uhhh....I said crazy! LOL

      If things had materialized the way we then thought, we would've been 'rolling in the dough', raking in money left and right!! :-] ...How much money would we have needed to live the life we thought we wanted?!...Ohhhh...I don't know....about 40 million, give or take a million. ^_^ 

      Then we could've had paintings like the one in the header photo all over our mansion....Yes, mansion! Because with that kind of money, we would've just had to have a bigger house. I think it's the law!! LOL

         And I, of course, would've been one of the best dressed women around, with a whole slew of accessories to help me out, like this bag...

(Hemp Messenger Bag by Uzura)

        ...and maybe even a car to match the color of my bag! :-)

      We would have slept in luxury...

 (Under the Apple Tree Canopy Bed by lummedesigns)

      ....danced, played and lived our life in luxury. With only the best of everything!...

 (Mosaic Guitar with Case by PiecesofhomeMosaics)

      You know what happens when you get older and wiser and you've lived life a while?!...Reality. That's what! LOL And guess what?!...you find out that reality is not so bad. :-] ...That's what you find out if you haven't wandered around in disbelief and unrealistic expectation for too long, I mean. O_O

       No, hubby never owned a chain of grocery stores...and I never became a famous singer...except in my house! ^_^ And we've never had enough money so that we could say we were exorbitantly rich...Comfortable?!...Yeah, we've been financially comfortable. But comfortable like..."The car blew a gasket?!"...."You better take it to the repair man.".....Not comfortable like..."Our niece wants a car for her graduation present."..."Okay, we'll get it for her, but not the Ferrari. Her mom might get mad with us." kind of comfortable! LOL

        And our expectation about how much money we would need to live has also drastically changed since we were teenagers...Now our concern is having enough to pay the bills, and go to the doctors, and to get our blood pressure medication, without worrying about what we'll have to sell off in the house to get it! ^_^ As long as we can still be together, serve our God, take care of each other, and still be moving and breathing...we're good! :-) In fact, it's priceless!....As soon as we get the moving and breathing part coordinated we'll let you know. ^_^ Have a good day, Everybody!

Everything Is Getting Older

Everything is getting older,
past it's time, and rusting fast!
No matter how many times you oil it,
Somehow, still, it doesn't last.

Everything is getting older.
Even veggies just from the store,
have now browned and withered up.
They're not all shiny like before.

Everything is getting older.
Old dogs included, people too.
Even babies, from the womb,
start getting older, just past brand new!

Everything is getting older,
like real good books, with tales all told.
But, Wait a minute! Some books are good!
That's why "To read" will not get old.

Everything that's getting older
doesn't harm us and displease.
Just think of wisdom in the aging-
that's with people and with cheese!

All the things, those getting older,
showing marks and scars of time,
just need a tad bit more attention,
or just a small aged glass of wine!