Breaking News..65 Year Old Grandmother Does Something Amazing!

I was woken up around 4 am this morning due to an aching shoulder from playing iPad games too much the night before (that is a whole other story in itself).  I started thinking about turning 65 next year.

Then to my mind, loud and clear, came news broadcasts describing events that may have happened to someone like me, a woman in her mid sixties.  When you hear on the radio or television, "65 year grandmother wins the lottery", what do immediately think?

I think of some doddering old lady, bent over, walking with a cane who does not have long to live!  Whaaat?  That's me next year!!!!

So I looked up "senior citizen" in Wikipedia.  "Senior citizen" in Wiki language is described as an elderly person and implies that the person is retired.  It goes on to say that the person is over the retirement age of their country....65 in Canada.  It is when I will start collecting Old Age Security Pension!

I vote we change the word to "jubiladas" (spanish for "new beginnings, joyful jubilation). Actually in Central America, it is a verb reflexive meaning "to play truant" or "to gain experience" (Caribbean meaning).  Anything but "elderly", "senior citizen"....please!

So cheers to my fellow jubiladas/jubilados (girls and boys).  We are having the best time in our lives!