Why am I writing this? Oh yeah…Rob Zombie’s new CD! See, your short-term memory is often the first thing to go in your elder years. Doesn’t growing old suck? Don’t even get me started. Of course, that does not stop me from scheduling a vacation day or two every so often to check out a new movie or Blu-ray release, but for the most part I have become what I guess you can say…an old responsible geezer who now has priorities in life and obligations to others. When you get older, you obviously can’t celebrate things like that anymore. That meant no workouts, no stressful activities and if I could help, no work that day either. I would religiously devote my entire day to their arrival. Often, I would celebrate them much like any other festive holiday. Whether it was the new Nirvana CD or the new KISS CD, I treated those Tuesdays as my own special holidays. I remember how pumped and excited I used to get about them. Looking back at my youth, I also remember the joyous occasions such as the new release Tuesdays of my favorite musical artists. Growing old simply means more aches and pains, more responsibilities and of course…more bills to pay! So kiddies, whenever someone says, “these are the best days of your life,” heed those words cautiously. I never truly understood what he meant until I hit my thirties. I did not feel fortunate in life, and I certainly was not going to listen to an old man who obviously did not know what he was talking about. Growing up in the rebellious grunge era of the 1990’s those words were unfortunately lost on me. Back in my late teens, I remember my grandfather always saying that these were the best days of your life and to enjoy them.
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