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"Your college friends are almost all married, and half of them have kids"

We're both 22 and I don't know how this is possible. I have one friend from college that is married only for the benefits he gets from the marines (living off base, etc.) and none of my college friends have kids. the same applies for my high school friends.

[Edited on July 6, 2009 at 6:04 PM. Reason : 5]

7/6/2009 6:04:41 PM

When planning to head out to meet with friends on Friday night

...10 = super late.

8/3/2009 6:42:45 PM

You begin mentoring interns/coops in your own department...

8/3/2009 10:20:34 PM

^ try you are the internship coordinator for your division...

8/4/2009 9:47:53 PM

you're playing basket ball with some kids and one of them asks another, "is that your dad?"

8/5/2009 10:25:12 AM

well, aren't you 53?

8/5/2009 11:24:38 AM

Girls' Night Out involves women who are old enough to be your mom.

You think nothing of spending $80 on a great bottle of wine. Or $30 on an amazing Kobe burger.

A great night involves a solid 8 hours of sleep.

You become extremely loyal to certain products (hotels, airlines, foods, etc.). SPG for life, baby.

8/5/2009 12:20:31 PM

Am I odd in that I'm 27 and I don't feel at all older than I did five years ago. I'm the youngest person at work, was one of the youngest in my MBA program and am the youngest of most of my friends (at least in Cali). I'm MORE active now at 27 than I was at 22.

I mean I don't go drinking every night anymore, but I really stopped doing that when I was a Junior in college (grades needed to get better)...

[Edited on August 5, 2009 at 12:37 PM. Reason : x]

8/5/2009 12:37:21 PM

^ I still feel the same age, for the most part, at 26 as I did at 21. It's just now I can afford nicer things and I also hang out with people who can afford to go to the places that I like to frequent.

Otherwise, I still look and act like a ten-year-old. I am always, always carded.

8/5/2009 1:56:34 PM

^^^ aha tell me about it...
- i haven't stayed in a non-hilton or non-marriott hotel in years now...
- i go out of my way to fly continental and argue with company travel when they try to convince me to go on delta/us air/etc. i will outright refuse to travel at all if my only choice is northwest

my husband thinks i'm a hotel snob (true), but the two above actually make sense financially too... we went to hawaii last year for 2 weeks completely for free (nonstop airfare and all nights in hilton hotels) on travel miles accumulated.

- i only use redkin hair products, only estee lauder face lotions, and only a handful of makeup brands (cargo, estee lauder, lancome, clinique)

8/8/2009 9:58:43 PM

FYI most college freshmen this year were born in 1991

8/9/2009 8:41:10 PM

^

good god, man, these incoming freshmen were FIVE when I was a college freshman.

8/9/2009 9:21:31 PM

LOL @ Queti

It's no secret that I ONLY stay in Starwood hotels when I have the choice. Love affair with Westin, W and The Luxury Collection.

Hair products: Paul Mitchell and Aveda only

Jeans: Lucky usually

Running shoes: Mizunos only

Bookstore: Borders ftw

TV News: NPR and Current TV only

Online News: NPR, Slate and Perez Hilton only




I feel like such a diva in my old age.

8/9/2009 9:42:23 PM

the weekend stubble is approaching 50% gray.

8/9/2009 9:56:54 PM

^^no, you're not a diva. i look at it like this: i work pretty hard, put in long hours, and travel a lot on business.... i might as well enjoy my free time and do things that make myself happy.

i used to use aveda almost exclusively. i loved their products, especially the shampoo smells. then i moved to an area where they don't have an aveda flagship salon... only rinky dink little un official salons that carry a few products but no aveda color. i don't do well with those places... i tend to go to fairly pricey salon/spas and go often... oh well. i'm just happy i found a nice place that handles redkin products and color. my husband also thinks i'm a spa snob too. oops!

[Edited on August 9, 2009 at 11:25 PM. Reason : er]

8/9/2009 11:24:57 PM

you watch the disney channel and notice the kids getting older and maturing through the shows

yes, i watch disney channel from time to time

8/10/2009 12:31:09 AM

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"FYI most college freshmen this year were born in 1991"

Good god, they weren't even alive for Mario 3.
Or the first Tim Burton Batman movie.
Some of them probably don't even know what a VCR tape is.

[/arbitrary nerd references]

8/10/2009 11:27:22 PM

or grunge.

8/11/2009 4:56:59 PM

^ haha, grunge to these kids is like 70's rock was to us back when grunge was current.

8/11/2009 7:29:43 PM

They won't know who Michael Jordan is

8/12/2009 12:19:40 AM

I take a 25 year old girl out to dinner and run into my sister, her husband and their two kids.

A few weeks later my nephew turns 6 and when I get to the party he asks me where my daughter is.

8/12/2009 3:51:04 PM

^burn

8/12/2009 4:12:27 PM

I kept his present.

8/12/2009 4:32:15 PM

oh god, i dread sept 6th

8/12/2009 9:46:48 PM

I turned 29 today. I can't believe my 20s are almost over.

8/12/2009 10:53:35 PM

Quote :

"you know you're getting old when.... "

you post in the 3000+ day club thread on Tdub

8/13/2009 11:12:24 AM

you are on facebook and all these people you don't even remember want to be your "friend"... or better, people that you absolutely were not friends with also want to be your friend and they say nice things.... people have such short-term memories... rose colored glasses and all that

or aha when you get a pm from a tdub member you e-flirted with a few (ok maybe like 5) years ago sends you note recalling fun memories when you were both single.. ahaha

[Edited on August 13, 2009 at 1:20 PM. Reason : er]

8/13/2009 1:18:17 PM

8/15/2009 10:03:08 AM

Instead of going to bars to look at hotties you just turn the TV to fox news

8/16/2009 9:17:02 PM

you were still a student the last time the tunnel was painted

8/19/2009 12:21:05 AM

I'm pretty sure I was a FRESHMAN last time it was painted!

8/19/2009 4:51:41 AM

Wait...what?

you can't paint anymore?

I'm confused

8/28/2009 1:45:49 PM

- so i was judging a social studies fair some months ago and came across a project that talked about 9/11. i started talking to the kid and realized that every single thing he knew and understood about the event came from wikipedia. i, like most of your folks, know exactly where you were when you heard the news. it is similar to my dad's generation and the jfk assasination.

- you watch specials on the weather channel

8/29/2009 11:57:31 AM

Damn. I'm gonna be 30 in about 6 weeks.

8/29/2009 5:41:54 PM

30 sucks big time. i had a bit of an episode on mine...

8/29/2009 6:59:45 PM

I'll be in Yuma, AZ at a training exercise for mine...

although it will be on a Friday night.

8/29/2009 9:33:22 PM

32 this year. i think what really struck me was when i hit 31 and realized i was 13 years older than 18 year olds. and this year i'll be twice the age of kids who drive.

i must still look decent though, i always get carded for cigarettes.

8/30/2009 2:43:50 AM

i know right... now i freaking love it when they card me at bars sad i know. i still remember flirting like crazy with bartenders way back when trying to make them forget to card me so i wouldn't get kicked out of clubs/bars

[Edited on August 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM. Reason : er]

8/30/2009 4:05:57 PM

two words: ear hair

the only time i get carded is at a bar/restaurant where the manager has a "you must card everyone, including your own grandmother" policy

8/30/2009 7:01:36 PM

you get called ma'am more often than you get carded

8/30/2009 9:00:49 PM

Well, you do look old Linda.

8/31/2009 9:06:05 AM

[Edited on August 31, 2009 at 11:52 AM. Reason : oops senior moment]

8/31/2009 11:51:19 AM

I just went to the Rogaine website. I don't know if my hair is falling out in the front but it's definitely getting thinner.

Quote :

"two words: ear hair"

Just one week ago I pulled out a dozen 1/2 inch hairs, all from the same spot above the lobe...

The people I know from Freshman year in HS... I first met them 15 years ago...

9/2/2009 4:17:53 PM

I was in Charleston with my parents this summer, and they kept laughing and pointing like five-year-olds whenever I got carded. I couldn't care less about whether I do or not.

Turning 30, on the other hand, makes me want to crawl under a rock.

9/2/2009 6:19:26 PM

We had a presentation at work about changes in our employee benefits and I paid close attention the whole time. Two years ago I was bored out of my skull.

9/2/2009 7:53:58 PM

^ha yeah i know right. i've been debating on increasing my life insurance and disability coverage... actually running numbers now.

9/2/2009 9:32:18 PM

Why, do you have dependents?

9/2/2009 9:36:21 PM

nah, when i set it up years ago, i just did the min's since i was young, dumb, and thus impervious to sickness and death. now i have a spouse, mortgage, etc. same for the spouse.

9/2/2009 10:39:39 PM

yeah, you really only need life insurance if you (A) have dependants, and (B) don't have enough of a nest egg to support them if you check out

or occasionally (C): if you have a whole helluva lot of assets and are using life insurance as a means of passing your wealth down without getting so much of it robbed by the IRS.

^ Right, but why do you need life insurance for your spouse? If you die, he can take care of himself. If he can't afford the mortgage, he can always sell the house. You probably don't need any life insurance at all, much less any more than you already have. If you're determined to do it anyway, at least get term insurance so as to not screw yourself as much or for as long.

[Edited on September 2, 2009 at 10:43 PM. Reason : ]

9/2/2009 10:42:09 PM

nah i know he can take care of himself. and vice versa. but we both made the decision to carry enough life insurance such as if either dies, the mortgage will be paid off, etc. our company benefits package (we both work for the same) has incredible rates, so too good to pass up.

9/3/2009 12:10:33 AM