Is is getting old or growing old?  All I know is that it's happening to me.  My dad use to say it beats the altenative, but who knows if that is true.  What I do know is that the time whizzes by and I think I know why. What use to take me 5 minutes now takes me about 30.  Now that the holidays are over, I'm trying to get the decorations down and put away.  I kind of go from project to project leaving a huge mess in my wake.  So the best example is today when I'm trying to take down the outside lights (I put them in the back yard so I could enjoy them).  While I'm taking the lights down, I step in dog shit.  So, I leave that and come inside to wash off my shoe.  I do it in the laundry room, but I can see very well because I took the light bulb out over the sink. (The people who bulit this house put one million overhead cans in and the electric bill was shocking; thus the removal of the bulb.)  Anyway, so I go to the basement to get the pole to put a light bulb in because the short ladder I already brought in is too short.  So, I get the bulb in and then I'm afraid it might not be tight and will fall on my dogs in the night.  So, I go get the taller ladder and double check the bulb.  Oops, one more ladder to put away and the goddamn pole.  Then I go to scrub my shoe and realize I can't see worth shit and have to find a pair of glasses.  

My point?  It took me at least a half hour, maybe more to do this.  But how long should it take to get dog shit off your shoe?  They say getting older really messes with your sense of time.  If this next year is going to fly by as quickly as the last one, I had better get to work making it worth it.