Purim- then and now

Purim's in a little over a week!

Yes I have to admit that purim as an adult (or a generic adult, something along those lines) is not as much fun as it was when I was a kid, when we got to dress up and traipse all over the city delivering shaloch manos to our 25 little classmates, friends and neighbors, and teachers, eat tons of junk food, throw up, trade stuff with the siblings, take whatever we wanted from the table that wasn't being claimed yet, eat more junk food, eat some real food at the seudah, fall asleep with clown make up still on our faces, (littles girls are queen Esther, naturally, but once you're a bit older you need a more mature costume and clown just seemed beffiting for me.) throw up again, go to school the next day (or day after that) and trade more junk food for better tasting junk food and eat and eat until it was all gone. Oh of course hear the megila being shushed in shul by all the adults, wave around out cute little (notice that everything in regards to kids is 'little' in my mind) handmade graggers, and stom our feet at Haman's name. Oh what glorious glorious times we had.

Now I barely make one or two shaloch manoses just to get the mitzva. Sit at home waiting for people to come to me, bored, whiling the day away, don't bothered getting dressed up cuz that's what little kids do. It's just not fun anymore.

Is that how everyone feels, or am I just a real party pooper?

Oh and get this: this year for my shaloch manos I'm making a salad or some other such health foods. DON'T tell me I'm boring. Junk food is so over rated.