I really appreciate your guys’ pics, you both have great eyes.
I wanted to say two things, the above, and that allergies really suck. Anyone else feeling it right now?
We have a blended house, as you know, it’s pretty clear who’s on my genetic side right now. Cutting way back on drinking and getting more sleep has kept me basically sick-free all year, minus me going to the hospital once bc I waited too long to go in to quik-care the one time I was.
I’m such a baby. I say it’s because I’m perceptive and notice the difference more than most people. Truth is I just suck sometimes. I have a high pain tolerance but actually being under the weather I’m quite a weenie.
Who still spaces twice after sentences?
I just realized that I still do after editing my post replacing a comma with a period. I assume most everything automatically reduces it down to one on appearance.
I tell myself at 38 I’m not really an old, and just say that as a self-deprecating move.
But no, I’m old. I’m noticing more and more things that have evolved. I’d like to give a list, but the memory these days…
For some reason I just keep telling myself that Dr Dre was cool at 50.
Dr Dre! That alone makes me an old.
One unexpected way I’ve noticed being old is band names. Soccer Mommy and Snail Mail are fantastic bands with names that make my eyes roll down the street. But I get why kids in their late teens/early twenties would pick these names. They’re throw backs to a previous generation, throwbacks that are just distant enough to sound cool but not reference anything you are personally familiar with.
If I was 35 in 1990, I probably would have rolled my eyes a Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails, too.
Goo Goo Dolls rolled their eyes at themselves. They grew to be really annoyed with the name.
Similar thing with the lead singer of Avenged Sevenfold, he’s pretty embarrassed he coined himself M. Shadows as a teenager.
Neither are bands I care for fwiw (not sure why GGD sit wrong with me), I remember the anecdotes from random interviews.
If I remember right, I think Hootie and the Blowfish had some regrets.
It was two random dudes from their school, like Bebop and Rocksteady. Instead, they’re the new Gladys Knight and the Pips.
Barenaked Ladies regretted their name at one point
Makes sense, when you gain respectability you don’t want to be a gimmick. It’s like Dwayne Johnson got to be that instead of the Rock in perpetuity.
Bands like Crash Test Dummies never got that far. Rappers can just rename themselves, but we don’t buy it if it strays too far. Get the hell out of here Snoop Lion.
idk about band names but i’m sure the guy from ac/dc didn’t expect to be wearing that schoolboy outfit into his 60s
For months, I can’t breathe through my nose.
I actually ran out of Breathe Right strips and forgot to get new ones. Gonna be a hard night to sleep for me.
I’m 34 and I’m feeling that.
Everytime I see a “[insert 90s rock band] is celebrating their 30th anniversary together”, I feel momentarily sick. Fucking Green Day has been together for 30+ years.
I don’t know guys. I feel what you’re feeling because I’m 34, but honestly I’m really enjoying being taken seriously professionally and actually getting ahead in life. These are literally the best years of my life, which is a super weird experience when Trump is in office. It’s super weird.
Yeah, I’m loving life.
That’s one reason I don’t feel old, the other is I have all my hair and no grey yet. I’m just saying the passing of time is very evident.
I drove through a subdivision the other day with tall trees that are 25+ years old, I remember when the lot was dirt and we used the mounds as jumps for our bikes.