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I think I've finally passed the age where it feels cool to be a grownup...
...and have veered straight into the downhill slide to old age and death.
I received an invite to my 20 year high school reunion...which must be a mistake because I didn't feel old enough to have a 20 year reunion until one of our 19 year old seasonal workers asked me if I was his friend's mom because "you look exactly like her but you've got glasses so I wasn't sure", and I realized that technically I am old enough to have a 19 year old son. It got worse when I asked him how old his friend's mom was (because I wondered if I might know her) and he said "like 50 I think", ouch.
And then our newly-engaged-after-a-whirlwind-totally-utah-romance-of-2-months 24 year old tech asked me for marriage advice because "You've been married like a couple times haven't you? I'm worried about screwing it up. I thought you might have some insights." sigh Apparently I'm who people go to on what NOT to do in a marriage. Great.
This is on top of all 5 of my younger sister's kids all separately calling me grandma last night when I was babysitting them. So apparently 36, still relatively young and hip, 37, nearly dead.




I'd call in sick to work (depression is a kind of sick, right?) Except I've already been here for 3 hours and they won't believe me.
The only constant is change. It's ok to be old. Some of the best people are old. And we can all commiserate together. So we've got that going for us!
I want to skip straight to retirement and being known as everyone's favorite "Crazy Old Lady".
I've been ready to retire since I was 25. Just don't quite have the money yet.
I just turned 42 and this post made me feel ancient. Thanks for that . . . .
Sorry to spread it around, yesterday was just too much of everything.