Signs I’m turning into an old woman
- My extreme interest in the status of the bird feeders
- My ideal bedtime of 9:00*
- My interest in the weather (and talking about it)*
- I think our neighbors are too loud
- I find most children annoying**
- We’re growing a garden
- I talk to my cat… and do a little voice back for what I think he is saying to me
- I dress my cat up in funny outfits.***
- We don’t go out to the bars
- We**** spend our free time experimenting with recipes
- I use an umbrella with kittens on it – and am not embarrassed at all
- I don’t feel like I should have to apologize for saying what’s on my mind
Steven sent me an email yesterday with this picture and the subject line “Didn’t you fill this yesterday?” Why yes, yes I did. At first, the birds ignored us. Then they slowly started visiting. We had to refill this thing weekly, then every 5 days, then every 2, now every day?!
The sad part is that I am excited. I think I will ask for a Northern Illinois Bird Book for my birthday.
So far this week, it has been Chocolate Babka and Pitas.
(They poof up while baking then flatten out.)
Hey, at least I have a lot to talk to my grandmas about!
Ha. Just kidding (kind of). I really don’t think I am turning into an old woman (I could probably make another list for how I am not), just that I have interests that don’t always relate with the rest of the people my age (25).
Do you ever feel like you have “old woman” or “old man” interests? Do you relate with what the stereotypical interests are for your age group?
*Let’s pretend this is running-related.
**There are exceptions!
***Let’s make sure this doesn’t turn into a “Signs I am turning into a cat lady” list
****Meaning Steven
Themocracy
Ha ha! Just wait til you hit 40!!
This list is awesome. At 28 I find myself enjoying some of the same things. haha. If I had a yard I’d probably have a garden (my roomie is trying to garden on the balcony but our lack of sunlight has kept me from wanting to try). Oh and my roomie has had bird feeders for years and got binoculars last year to bird watch (did I mention she’s also 28). And we make our animals “talk” all the time… It’s especially amusing to me when Delilah cusses. haha.
You sure the squirrels aren’t getting into your feeder? If not, you’re gonna have some fat birds in your backyard! hahaha.
I wish we had squirrels! We don’t have enough trees around our neighborhood to attract them!
I ALWAYS feel like I am an old lady. I have the strangest interests and they are kind of all over the place. Luckily I run so I do have that in common with people my age but I go to bed early, don’t go out much, knit, make cheese, etc. None of those are super common with people I know.
The weather thing is interesting. My kids think of me as a walking weather channel. I normally check the weather on the news each morning as I run on the treadmill. Because of that I am almost always prepared to give the weeks forecast. It isn’t always right, but I can always quote Paul Konrad or Tom Skilling and blame it on them!
The bird feeder is so cool! We used to have one but all the other wild animals in our yard from the forest kept eating it all so we stopped filling it.
Wow, I can definitely identify with this list. I don’t really drink and would prefer to do a million other things Saturday nights than go to crowded bars and clubs. It’s not that I don’t want to be social, I just don’t understand why the only thing people want to do is get drunk when there are SO many places to explore and things to see.
Yeah… especially since you can’t remember the things you explore and see when you are drunk 😉
I find myself relating to almost everything on your list, with the exceptions of the cats (we do not have any pets). Hell, I am often whinning about my middle aged neighbors blarring their Bob Seger until 11 PM nightly (we live in a town house with paper-thin walls; I wear earplugs and can STILL hear them!!!)
And there is nothing wrong with being interested in the weather and talking about it. I think the science behind it is actually pretty cool!
OLD!!!
Actually I love talking about the weather too. Meteorology major was option #2 for me. This week in Chicago (St Charles) as been WAY better than the boring weather in PHX. Chance of severe weather this afternoon! WEEEE
I do a lot of things on that list too, especially talk to Bodger and enthusiastically voice his presumed responses.
Also, I was thinking about picking up needle-point/cross-stitch. Except, I’d design subversive pictures and messages….
You absolutely crack me up!!!! I think one of the things I like best about you is how you just put it all out there… you don’t feel the need to censor yourself and you can just be yourself!!! (I like to talk to the cats and they talk back to me too, don’t feel bad! And your cat umbrella- and yoga mat- just rock!!!)
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This is why I feel like an old lady:
-I do almost every single thing you listed.
-I read this and said to myself, “damn that bread looks good”.
-I already have an idea of what movie I’m renting from Red Box on my Friday night. No decisions as to if I will even drink a glass of wine or not…
i do everything that you listed above and started crocheting and knitting. this is the epitome of feeling old.
haha that is funny! The ppl at work call me an 80 year old woman because I go to bed at 10pm every night (or earlier) and I don’t go to the bars either.
My fater loves his gird feeders and constantly thinks of ways to outwit the squirrels.
I talk to my dogs and respond in their voices too. and I dress up Rosie.
Don’t worry. I have the crazy cat lady in the basement thing taken care of.
I’m old in that I really don’t have any interest in going out every weekend! I never really understood the appeal of getting drunk every weekend, and I would comment on the whole “staying up until 3am” thing, but I stay up until 2am on a daily basis (because of my job…), soooo I can’t say anything about that. But never been one to drink my weekend away!
Too funny! I can totally relate – I do like to go out at times, but often, if we find ourselves venturing out after dark for dinner/drinks, we’ll be quite impressed (with ourselves)!
Haha! Once you start cutting in lines and driving 30 in a 65 I think your AARP card will be in the mail.
FWIW I am guilty of most of the above as well!
Keith and I always joke that we are grandma and grandpa! Considering a crazy night out for us is dinner and then renting a movie…we’ve earned that title! haha! Oh and sorry about the cat picture yesterday!
Ha! No worries about the picture 😉
I’m pretty sure that I am 85 living in a 33 year old’s body. I mean, when I sit down on the couch with some prunes and turn on Antiques Roadshow, could “old lady” be yelled any louder? I doubt it. I’m okay with being an old lady. I have a lot of the same statements that you have on your list. I also think that a retirement village would be the best place for me to live because it would be quiet and there would be no screaming kids or school buses. Did you know in Canada they are allowed to have apartment buildings and complexes with age restrictions?! Like if you wanted to live in a building with only 20 somethings you could (also meaning no kids). And so on. In the U.S. we’re only allowed to have retirement villages and still people protest those!
Wow. I think I belong in Canada! Ha ha. No, really, that would be great. We often say we should live in one of those retirement homes where children are not allowed to live, but that we are too young.
Um, I could have written this list EXACTLY, with the exception that I’m not growing a garden and I’ve only thought of having a bird feeder (haven’t made the purchase yet). My bedtime is creeping closer and closer to 9pm, I use earplugs to sleep because I think our neighbors are loud (they’re not really that loud), children bother me, I got moles removed due to fear of cancer, I go to weather.com regularly (even though I live in CA where we don’t have weather), I talk to my cats all the time (and I’m pretty sure I already am a cat lady as we have cat trees in our dining room), I consider TV and calzones a wild Friday night, I often wake up sore from sleeping “wrong,” I call people in college “kids,” I get excited for coupons, I adore fiber, and I wear lots of cardigans.
It would be fun to do a follow-up list of how you’re still a kid. I’m sure we all have things for that too 🙂
My son-in-law kids me that “someone forgot to tell me I’m old!”
I do boot camp three days a week and run three days a week. I go to bed early because I get up early. I signed up for the Women’s Half Marathon in November. If I didn’t know how old I was I would say I was 48.
this is a great post! i am an old woman in age and am starting to feel like one too…….i am swooning over your babka 😉
My husband gives me grief for wearing a fanny pack! He calls it my “granny pack”, LOL. I prefer the term ‘waist pack’ and hey, its much more convenient than lugging around a purse all day!
Best. Post. Ever. You crack me up, Kim.
I have noticed that many of my fellow bloggies who are in their 20s are WAY more mature and together than I was at their age. When I was 25 I was working at a punk rock club, going to 2:00 a.m. parties, and mooning after guys in bands. My lifestyle has changed considerably, but I have to keep a toe in that water to feel like me. (Except now I moon after my husband, who is in a band).
LOL! This was hilarious, especially the pic of data dressed in the outfit! I love it! I sometimes feel like I may be acting older than my age, I too do not party that much any more, I would totally dress up my cat if I had one and the bird feeder thing would be so exciting. I think it’s great that you are proud of who you are. And rock that umbrella girl!
I can say each and every one of those reasons are the same for me. Best part, I am not even shy about it either. Data looking glamourous, as always. I will have to give homemade pitas a try. 🙂
haha is it bad that I thought “me too” for all of these?
For me, the signs Im getting old are:
-The bigger the purse the better
-Everything all of a sudden tastes too sweet
-The idea of going to bed at 9:30 on a Friday night sounds wonderful
-When my friends talk about parties, and being out all night I think “arent you too old for that?”
seriously!!! i feel liek I should be 40 not 28 most days! I don’t want to party all night, I want to sleep. I want to read the paper on sunday morning…oh man kill me
to be honest I made a list the other day of the stuff that I’m interested in and excited about and that kinda make up my “life” outside of motherhood and work. . . when it was written out I had not choice but to acknowledge that I’m a geek. (not to offend anyone else interested in these things because well, obviously I think that they’re cool and hey, I’m pretty cool too!)
Root-Riot is an urban gardening group that I’ve recently joined and that’s just getting started in O.P. and is bringing me tons of excitement.
WordCamp is coming to Chicago in early June and despite the fact that my computer is is a coma and I haven’t posted anything to my site because I’m in a bit of a slump, I’m SO THERE!
the L.A.T.E. ride is looking good to me and thousands of others who like to ride their bikes through the Chicago streets at 3 am.
every Monday my daughters and I attend meditation classes, and yes our home is more peaceful for at least a day afterwards (okay, maybe just the rest of the night).
and the highlight of any of most (sadly not every week) is kick-boxing class every Saturday morning, Pilates on Sunday and when I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing a couple of mornings (early mornings) doing other stuff because getting up at 4 am is easier than heading out past 8 pm and that is officially what makes me feel like maybe, just maybe, I’m actually getting a little older 😉
I am the same age as you and:
I never go to bars, or really drink at all. I look down on the people I know that party all the time as pathetic ‘children’.
My current obsession is list making (grocerys, chores, etc) and sprouting mung beans.
I wish I could get to bed at 9pm…but that never happens.
I think your cat umbrella is the shit.
All I can think about is having babies, it’s SO annoying, lol.
My back hurts.
But soon, I’m going to go back to school and, even if it is a master degree, I think I will feel 20 again being back at university. Hopefully.
You will either feel 20 again… or feel annoyed by all the youngin’s!
We never knew what to do with our sprouted mung beans. What have you been using them for?
Meh, I feel way older than my actual age all the time:
-I’m one of those people who like to pay with exact change if possible.
-My memory is the size of a marble.
-I hardly ever party or drink.
-I relate to most of the things on your list.
It’s all good.
Hahahaha I LOVE this post!! I also get tired right at 9 and a big night for me is pizza and a movie….or catching up on the DVR. 😉
Also, more importantly — I am currently obsessed with babka (chocolate or cinnamon) and have been thinking about trying to make my own for awhile now. Yours looks amazing!! Would you mind sharing the recipe??? (or once Steven perfects it ;)) Pretty please?
I will share the recipe! He wasn’t 100% pleased with the way this one turned out (too chocolaty) but he is already scheming up the next version of it, so I will definitely share it when we get it right!
Your *’s always crack me up – that’s my favorite part of your posts!
I am the only one of my friends married. All of them are single. We don’t have a lot in common by default. But, crawling into bed at 10:30pm on a Saturday night is totally old woman and FABULOUS! What can I say? 🙂
Finding the occasional gray hair makes me feel older, but reading posts like this makes me feel young again. 😉
Um, I’ve been talking to my cats for years… at least 20 years or more.
Old man traits… let’s see, maybe doing the same routine over and over each morning… coffee, oatmeal and then complaining about how cold it is. Does that count? lol
Ha! I think that does count… especially since I totally rely on my morning routine too!
i’m totally an old woman. i can’t go to concerts anymore, i always wanna be home in my pj’s in front of the tv. as long as i get out every once in a while, i embrace my inner geezer!!!
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