top ten signs you are not as young as you used to be

[Phoebe]

Your nightstand has both excedrin and icy hot for easy access

Have you been in my bedroom? How did you know?

[mommax3]

Hah, DH likes to make dinner reservations for 5pm. I usually make him push it to 6 because we're not 80 yet, for crying out loud! I don't need to order off the early bird menu and be in bed by 7, thankyouverymuch. That said, we're home by 8:30 at the latest on a date night.

lol that is so us! We want to go to bed early and the teenagers are staying up later (hence the first item on my list)! Makes it hard to enforce curfew, too!

[Momo]

Or when the Challenger exploded. Or when the Iranian hostages were released. Or Colonel Oliver North testifying in the Iran-Contra Scandal. Or the bombing of the US Embassy in Beiruit. Or when Reagan was shot. Or when Clinton wagged his "that woman" finger. Or the Achille Laurel. Or when the Berlin Wall fell. Or Tinanamen Square.

Maybe my parents were weird news junkies (which I do not remember being the case), but I remember all these moments clearly and I remember at the time recognizing, as best a child can, that the world changed somehow that day.

These late 20th century moments that your children think are "the olden times."

I remember all of these! I was a middle kid of 5; my 2 sisters paired off& my brothers did as well, thus leaving me to my own devices. Instead of playing by myself I hung out w/my folks (a lot) watching TV/news ,w/them.
I can still recall Hubert Humphrey dying, even made a memorial lite brite display for him. I can also recall seeing Nixon on TV,when he resigned. I remember watching the Iran Contra hearings& infamous "pubic hair on a Pepsi can" hearings for SCJ nominee Clarence Thomas. Gosh, I feel like a really old 42 yr old!

[poky]

She was 16 when she hit it big in 1987, and was already kind of a "has been" by her early 20s... so it's surprising to me that she's already 42 and I feel old. Well, not old. I'm in my 30s. But my doctor (not my partner ) likes to tease me that I'm "young middle-aged," because she used to refer to people who were 40-60 as "middle-aged," until a patient pointed out to her that she'd then be expecting people to live to be 120. That's funny.

Ah! See, at the time, I didn't know how old she was; I assumed she was older than me by at least a few years....and apparently she wasn't (now that I look it up, she's older than me by less than a month)! Hence my surprise that she's as young as she is.

[Amiens]

your kids ask if there was electricity when you were a kid, because you told them how computers were just coming out when you were their age.....
your kids are shocked and amazed that you survived a trip across the United States over a three week period without an IPad, DVD player or IPod.
songs from your childhood are being remade - You Spin Me Right Round, anyone?

[scarlett09]

Or when the Challenger exploded. Or when the Iranian hostages were released. Or Colonel Oliver North testifying in the Iran-Contra Scandal. Or the bombing of the US Embassy in Beiruit. Or when Reagan was shot. Or when Clinton wagged his "that woman" finger. Or the Achille Laurel. Or when the Berlin Wall fell. Or Tinanamen Square.

Maybe my parents were weird news junkies (which I do not remember being the case), but I remember all these moments clearly and I remember at the time recognizing, as best a child can, that the world changed somehow that day.

These late 20th century moments that your children think are "the olden times."

I remember where I was during the first attack on the WTC. Both times we started shit with Iraq. Oklahoma City bombing. September 11th. OJ Simpson's ride in the white Bronco and the verdict. My parents weren't weird news junkies, but probably should have changed the channel during the first Iraq war and attack on the WTC - I was way too young to comprehend what I was seeing and they made no effort to explain it or make me less worried.

I've got some more from today:
- College students make no effort to rock out to "Teenage Wasteland" or various other songs that were popular before they were born during football game.
- Make every effort not to get soaked during football game, when just a few years ago, you would have stood in the downpour.

[MrsK]

You remember watching the entire arc of Princess Diana's celebrity, including her engagement, marriage, children, divorce, death, and funeral, on television.

[Momo]

You 8 year old daughter ask you earnestly : "Mom what was it like living in the 1900s?...especially way back in the 1970s?" I kid you not

[GreyhoundsRUs]

My mom actually kept two little kids mesmerized through a 3 hour plane flight by telling them about life in the 50's and beyond and answering their questions

[MrsK]

You let your subscriptions to Cosmo and Glamour expire because you'd rather sign up for Real Simple, Kiplingers, Working Mother, the New Yorker, or More.

You have no idea who any of the current pop musicians are because you only listen to NPR.

[MrsK]

You prefer the History Channel to MTV.

[poky]

You prefer the History Channel to MTV.

You remember when MTV actually showed music videos.

[Liisi]

Oh, I've got another one:

Your bedtime routine has ever been as follows:
Brush, floss, put in your mouth guard (to protect against teeth grinding), put a Breathe Right strip on your nose, take a big dose of melatonin, fill and turn on the humidifier, put on the wrist braces that are necessary for your RSI pain, and climb into bed looking OH SO SEXY.

[corn poffi]

One of your friends from high school just posted a Facebook picture of a puzzle she just completed.

[HouseofWool]

One of your friends from high school just posted a Facebook picture of a puzzle she just completed.

That is just sad.