old.

Its ironic to me how NOT thrilled about your birthday you get when you get older. When you're young you wait all year for your birthday, when its someone else's birthday it makes you sad, cuz you want it to be YOUR birthday. Its all you can do to maintain your 5 year old lifestyle when secretly you wished you were 6 or even better 10.

This is not the case when you get older. Suddenly age brings along a whole slew of not so pleasant side effects, and all you want is to be 5 again. Ok, maybe not five, but if i could be like 20 forever, that'd be pretty great.

My birthday is this weekend, and though I am still skimming by in the early twenty category, I'm hanging dangerously on the edge.

Regardless of all this, I have noticed myself getting old. And this scares me. I have compiled a list of the occurrences that signify my ageing.

#1 Staying up past 10:00 is a REALLY big deal.
#2 I have varicose veins, or at least the starts of them.
#3 I have a chin hair. Yes, ONE chin hair. gross...
#4 I drive a Taurus. enough said.
#5 About 75% of my friends are married, and have children.
#6 I have a life insurance policy.
#7 I like broccoli....I CRAVE broccoli.
#8 I'm really quite terrible at texting. ESPECIALLY while driving. Its just safer to call, I envy
young kids that can text without even looking at their phone.
#9 I have been caught (and later mocked) referring to life in high school/college as "those
were the days."
#10 Mt. Dew give me a stomach ache when drunken on an empty stomach.