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Old 05-11-2007, 09:23 PM   #1
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Feeling your age..

So do you feel your age? I actually feel like I am 20 (only better ) I was so sad when the empty nest thing hit but I LOVE being a single adult again! (My younger son is home for the summer and I love that.. but I do love being able to come, go, cook, not cook, sleep, not sleep, be messy when I want).
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Old 05-11-2007, 09:26 PM   #2
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Most the time I still feel 19. Not bad actually.
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Old 05-11-2007, 09:35 PM   #3
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HA! I do feel 55. Some of the tv shows that I talk about were a long long time ago. LMAO!! Yesterday I mentioned that I still had a crush on Bailey Quarters!(WKRP In Cinninnitti) from the late 1970s!!!
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Old 05-11-2007, 11:53 PM   #4
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I can't help remembering the episode on Roseanne, where she's talking to her mother and her mom says "I'm 65. I feel 65." very emphatically.

I LOVE being 40. I feel 40. I think it's the right age for me. Now, 41? Maybe not!
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Old 05-12-2007, 12:22 AM   #5
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I have a friend who never tells anyone how old she is as she feels that people judge you differently depending on your age. She is from Nigeria and very beautiful, so you can't tell how old she is anyways!

I certainly don't look or feel my age (which is almost 43! ) If it weren't for my DD being 20, I could probably get away with telling people I was in my early 20's. I find it flattering to still get carded at restaurants and liquour stores. Maybe it is the yearly trips to WDW which keep me feeling young!
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Old 05-16-2007, 12:25 PM   #6
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I LOVE being 40. I feel 40. I think it's the right age for me. Now, 41? Maybe not!

i am loving 40...have not felt this good in ages
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I'll be 45 in July and I usually don't feel that old. My DH and I were high school sweethearts and I still look at us like I did back then. I never had a problem turning a certain age (30, 40) but I did this past weekend. My older DD turned 21 and I don't know where that time went. So yes this week I guess I do feel my age.
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I don't feel my age...I was talking with one of our student interns the other day, who is 20, and she was saying how she really didn't feel 20 -- she was still adjusting to the fact that she had graduated high school, much less just finished her sophomore year in college. I was like, dude, me too, and I'm four years older than you. I watch Laguna Beach and The Hills, and I feel like those kids are older than I am - they sure do look like it sometimes!

In some ways, I feel like I should only be 15 or 16 - I'm definitely more mature than that, but I feel like it hasn't been 8 years since I was that age at all. Time flies when you're having fun, I guess!

The other day, my mom was talking about an "older lady" and when I asked how old she was, she said "late 50s, early 60s." I was like, "Mama. That's you." She was like, "IS NOT. Oh wait, it is...crap..." She doesn't look it, and I still see her as being in her early 40's, so I know what she means. Same for my grandma - she's still in her 60's to me, even though she's 78.
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I am 30. I certainly don't FEEL like I'm 30. More like 18.
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I don't feel 34 with a 15 yr old DS still at home he keeps updated on what is cool. But I do feel old when I start the lectures I use to get from my parents (which I said I would never say to my son cause at the time I didn't understand) and preach them to the DS. I roll my eyes at myself and giggle inside thinking "Gosh I sound like my Mother or Father" depending on what speech came out. This is why I go to WDW, when you walk thru the gates age is not a factor.
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Old 05-12-2007, 05:36 AM   #11
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I certainly don't feel like I'm going to be 35 this year - I still feel like I'm in my early 20's!
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I really don't feel my age- and my next one is coming up and I'm starting to feel depressed. I'll be 46 but don't look it. when I take my 4 yr ds to preschool and talk about having a 20 yr old they didn't believe me. LOL!! eveybody thinks I'm 10 yrs younger than I am. and I feel that way too. I just hate that I'm closer to 50.
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Old 05-12-2007, 10:38 AM   #13
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I just forget how old I am. I went somewere w/a friend of mine who is a month older than me and i had to ask him how old we were when someone asked me.
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I feel like I'm 50 today - sad part is that I'm only 34
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I still feel like I did when I was 19. And my husband still treats me like he did when I was 19. (When we began dating! )

Turning 30 in a few years scares me to death. 30 is my personal magic number for having to be an adult and I dread it. I'm closer to 30 than 25, but I can still fudge it and say I'm in my 20's. I won't be able to do that in a couple of years and I'm beginning to resent it.

Now, everyone who knows me either assumes that I'm older than I am before they meet me in person, or assumes that I'm younger than I am when they meet me, but never knew me before we met. Online friendships make this harder to explain.
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