Help, I'm going pre-middle aged crazy...I'm today 39 and holding :(
So today I'm now 38 (edit: now 39) and holding...and while I doubt I'll do the stereotypical mid-life crisis things like get a sports car (for mental/emotional health reasons I don't have a drivers license; long story short it wouldn't be safe for me to attempt driving) with a young chick inside (though in Jerry's case he infamously got one that wasn't even close to being ripe for picking), it is kinda hitting me in the sense that I wonder if I'll get to experience all the things I want to experience, like all the blue chip video games, and books (like those reference yearbooks/learning history and such) and getting to collect all the baseball cards I'd like (I'd love to someday do 60s Topps sets but right now I don't know if I can even afford early 70s, like the classic 1971 black beauties). I know some have told me that I'm still "just a pup" but I'm not so sure about that. I was "just a pup" in my college days (early 2000s) and when I got hitched (2005) but that just seems so long ago now and it really shouldn't be.
All that being said, I couldn't help but notice when I turned on my WiiU (hee hee after I just mentioned college, I mention a console that sounds like it's going to college!) it made this neat little jingle...is it supposed to do that on your b-day? Does the PS3 or PS4 do that too? I guess I should fire up my Animal Crossing on GC and get its birthday stuff too?
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Jingle jingle
(a special jingle for you)
I turned 38 myself 21 days ago. We're getting fucking old!
Happy birthday! The DS and DS Lite makes a neat little jingle on your birthday if I remember correctly.
Thanks I'll try both my DS-XL and 3DS-XL!
Happy birthday, man! You've got a decade on me, but I'm a teacher, so I get daily reminders of my age.
What do you teach? Quantum physics? Advanced Placement calculus BC? Speed Latin?
Happy birthday, man! You've got a decade on me, but I'm a teacher, so I get daily reminders of my age.
Ha! True that. I'm also a teacher and was asked recently if I knew that I had white in my beard by one of my "observant" students ...
Happy birthday, man! You've got a decade on me, but I'm a teacher, so I get daily reminders of my age.
Ha! True that. I'm also a teacher and was asked recently if I knew that I had white in my beard by one of my "observant" students ...
Oh please don't even go there...I do in fact have way too much gray in my hair/beard already Not to mention I'm about 40-50 lbs heavier than I was when I was in college/first got married (I'm around 205ish)...my wife must've jinxed me (and NO she does not do the cooking; I actually do that). I guess this right here might be what my doctor would advise?
Happy birthday, man! You've got a decade on me, but I'm a teacher, so I get daily reminders of my age.
What do you teach? Quantum physics? Advanced Placement calculus BC? Speed Latin?
I teach history, which of course doesn't help my cause. I love it, but those kids don't have any sense of time.
Happy birthday, man! You've got a decade on me, but I'm a teacher, so I get daily reminders of my age.
Ha! True that. I'm also a teacher and was asked recently if I knew that I had white in my beard by one of my "observant" students ...
Oh yeah. I'll reference something, and the kids will say, "Whoa! You were ALIVE for that!?" or they have no idea what I'm talking about.
We were playing volleyball in PE, and one of the kids just couldn't reach the ball. I said, "You need to bust out your 'Go-Go-Gadget Arms!'" All I received was confused looks--from the entire class. None of them had heard of the cartoon, which is what I was specifically thinking about, but they didn't even know the movie! I couldn't believe it.
Congrats.
Originally posted by: Estil
Then again I remember ever since Back to the Future 2 came out (I was nine years old at the time, 1989) being so excited about what 2015 would be like...and that was a loooooooong time away, especially for a kid!! I mean the year 2020 (when I reach the f-word) is when the second to last Turtles in Time level takes place and there was Super Baseball 2020 (I don't think that's gonna happen though) and who knows what kinds of technological and gaming and such of things we might see by then? So I guess part of me is curious as to what we will have then. After all, wasn't it not that long ago when the year 2000 was often a synonym for "the future"?
I remember when I used to hear radio ads for mattresses and furniture with "no payments til January 2000" and it used to sound like some made up non existant date that was never going to actually happen. Or you would see "in the year 20xx" in a videogame and basically just think of a Jetsons type existance.
I used to be a regular Conan O'Brien viewer for years growing up and always thought it was brilliant that he continued his "In the year 2000" segments long after the actual year 2000 was over, but still presented it as if something futuristic and alien was happening.
Oh, and happy birthday!!
Wow pre-middle aged crazy? I'm only 37 and I'm already beyond my mid-life crisis.
How do you figure?
Dear Cat Dad,
Thank you for being my Dad.
If some other man was my Dad,
I'd piss on his shoes,
claw up his face,
and go find you.
Love,
Jamiee The Cat!
Plus I also got a $25 Amazon gift card (which I'll use towards pre-ordering this year's Peanuts Every Sunday book) and I managed to pick this up too (see my reference books topic):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-World-Book-Health-Medical-Annual-1987-2001-Lot-of-15-vols-HC-VGC/183658935977?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
I hope I can get the science ones soon!
All you kids get off of my lawn.
I don't have any (not the human kind anyway). You wouldn't say that about my kitty would you?
Then again I remember ever since Back to the Future 2 came out (I was nine years old at the time, 1989) being so excited about what 2015 would be like...and that was a loooooooong time away, especially for a kid!! I mean the year 2020 (when I reach the f-word) is when the second to last Turtles in Time level takes place and there was Super Baseball 2020 (I don't think that's gonna happen though) and who knows what kinds of technological and gaming and such of things we might see by then? So I guess part of me is curious as to what we will have then. After all, wasn't it not that long ago when the year 2000 was often a synonym for "the future"?
Just played that 2020 stage in turtles in time 2 days ago. When I was a kid 2020 seemed so far away that it was believable