• I, like Lainey, am much better at picking my battles
• I am much better at pleasing the females, physically, than I was in when I was a teen and my post teen years. - Hell, son, if you haven't been doing what you can to get better at what you enjoy, you are wasting your time! 
• I am more handy around the house and yard than I was when I was much younger
• I am, much more, forgiving than I was when I was younger
• Cant forget the cooking either...much better and more variety of things that I can make.

I have learned when to speak and when to shut up and my cooking has come a long way from when I first married..No more Hamburger Helper... just a lot of spices and love of doing it.

Oh my cooking has definitely improved as well. I vividly remember a dinner about 11 years ago that I made for my family when we had a friend visiting from out of town - pork chops, mashed potatoes, gravy, and steamed veggies. The veggies were overcooked (gross), the pork chops were like hockey pucks, the gravy had more lumps than the mashed potatoes, and the mashed potatoes were a weird consistency. In my defense, my mashed potatoes were usually good, something weird happened there...and I'd called my mom for the baking instructions on the pork chops and did them exactly as she said. What a disaster. And of course it had to happen when we had company. Not that my food was ever as good back then as it is now, but it certainly wasn't the catastrophe that was! Needless to say, the next time our friend visited, he offered to cook 

I remember my first Pot Roast per my grandmothers instructions. OMG!!! If I had hit ya with it , it would have killed you...It was that bad....But then again my grandmom wasn't the best of cooks. I learned a lot from my mother in law and then of course Food Network.

 Food Network

My mom is a fantastic cook, but she's one of those that doesn't pay attention to the specifics (as am I now, with my own recipes) so she can never give a good recipe or timing in an oven, etc. Just when it looks/smells good, and her recipes are all "a dash of..." or "some of...." or "about (this many/much)....." I'm getting just as bad. My husband's grandparents stayed with us for a week last year and his grandma wanted the recipes for 3 or 4 of the things I made while they were here. It was interesting trying to explain how much of something I put in, how long to cook it, etc. 

I'm still pretty much the same smart a$$ed, sarcastic $h*t that I used to be, but I make a lot more money now.  Does that count?

Honestly, I haven't changed much. I never was an arguer, I'll talk for just a few minutes, but at some point, I'm ready to fight.  I'm not as quick to be in those situations since I had a kid. I mean, I can't really be going to jail right now, sooo I guess I'm better at keeping myself out of situations that would cause me to want to choke a bitch. Besides that, it's all the same.

Complaining about the f**kasses in government. WTF I can do smilies now!! My COC probation is over already? Man 12 months sure flies by in solitairie.