Tag: getting older
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In Between Years
Work milestones are every 5 years. For adult ages I’ve got things like: 21 (legally drink), 25 (can rent a car), 35 (can be president), and all the decades (like turning 40). But I find those in-between numbers to be less memorable.
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Won’t Stop Groovin’
Looking it up, Shake It Off was released over 10 years ago in 2014, and the song I played for her was released in 2004. It’s not as though I was playing music from the 1970s.
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Who Wants To Be…A Scout?
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was such a stressful show to watch.
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You’re Scaring Him
I mean, once you have kids, you’ll wonder why you waited so long! (Even if only because you’ll imagine it would have been easier to handle when you were younger and more energetic in general.)
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Dead Ringers
Sadly, I did think that the basic plot of The Lord of the Rings was enough in the cultural zeitgeist that stopping someone over spoilers was a joke in itself. Then I remembered how many years it’s been since the movies came out.
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Un-emergency
I understand that there are legal cover-your-ass reasons that they have to consider the worst case scenario when you call for medical advice, but it’s not always the worst case, you know?
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So Retro
On the plus side, people assume I know a lot of stuff because I’ve been around a while, and I actually know a lot of stuff! On the other hand, now I can apparently sleep “wrong” once and then I can’t turn my head for a week.
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Old Movies
This “I don’t watch old movies” response to Star Wars happened to a coworker after the Prequels had been made (and still years before the Sequels). I’m still surprised every time I learn that another of my kids’ classmates has never watched the original Star Wars trilogy. They’re not new releases, but they are classics.