My inspiration is a list I got from Cosmopolitan:
Moves that look lame past 30
- Going the backpacker/hostel/couch-surf route every vacation.
- Dressing like a sexy cat, sexy devil, sexy cheerleader, or sexy hooker for Hallowe'en. oh thank the LORD...the pressure to be sexy at Hallowe'en is a bitch.
- Hitting last call and making out with a new guy each weekend. Too bad for all the Cougars out there..apparently they're all "lame".
- Screaming at your mom on the phone where people can hear. When is that EVER okay?
- Habitually skimping on your share when the check comes. Once again...was that okay to do in your 20s?!
- Ceasing communication with friends the minute you meet a guy. This also applies to a guy you've dated forEVER. He'll be there tomorrow. Chill. ANd if he's not there tomorrow, why the eff is he getting your free time and not your friends?!
- Buying drinks with "sexy" names that aren't clever, just plain dirty. WTF drink has that bad of a title?
- Prefacing every bite of junk food with "OMG, i'm soooo bad!!!"
- Using multiple emotions or LOLs within any email, text, or IM Okay i'm guilty for that. I use LOL alot and ":P" alot. Time to get that habit in check.
Here's my "rules" for life in my 30s:
1. No more staying out past midnight on new year's eve. Wherever I am at midnight is where I'm sleeping.
2. No more clubbing past 11pm unless I'm with my husband OR i'm seeing a friend i havent' seen in ages. After 11, if you're not single, its kinda boring.
3. Seriously need to put the smackdown on the use of "and I'm all like, whatever, and she's all...". LIKE is not a word for SAID. ALL is not a word for SAID.
4. I will not feel bad declining events if I'm just in a grouchy mood or tired or whatever. Obligation is a thing of the 20s...in my 30s, I don't need to justify the use of my time. Suck it.
5. I will be diligent about taking vitamins.
6. I will be diligent about proper posture.
7. If I should ever be single again (aliens abduct Kraig, i don't know!), I refuse to embrace the cougar lifestyle. I will remember that any activity that a 21-year-old mocks is never a good thing.
8. I will never buy beaded glasses-holders.
9. I will go through my old makeup and chuck anything that seemed okay when I was a crazy drunk party girl but just not okay now. Do I really need ten different shades of aqua, purple, and other "only looks good in black light" makeup?
10. I will wear sunblock even if i'm NOT going out in the sun.
More to come as I think of them....
3 comments:
Damn... I'm already in my 30's n' this is a crazy list. I don't feel or act that much older than when I was 25 or 28.
Going the backpacker/hostel/couch-surf route every vacation.
-- I love hostels n' I've used them on my last 3 long vacations Europe/Mexico/Europe, but I don't use them for places like Vegas or the beach.
Dressing like a sexy cat, sexy devil, sexy cheerleader, or sexy hooker for Hallowe'en.
-- Sorry it's Halloween... all women are required, yes required, to dress sexy/sluty. If not than just stay home and pass out candy n' let the little kids talk about you being the crazy cat lady.
Hitting last call and making out with a new guy each weekend.
-- I never hit last call... it usually hits me. Damn you 2 am for making me go home to drink. As for Cougars... I think that they start in there 40's now not 30's.
Screaming at your mom on the phone where people can hear.
-- My Mom barely uses her phone, n' I never scream at my Mom
Habitually skimping on your share when the check comes.
-- If anything I over tip, and I have ever since I delivered pizzas when I was 18 n' saw all the cheap fools out there.
Ceasing communication with friends the minute you meet a guy.
-- I might not talk to my friends as much, but I'd never stop talking to them
Buying drinks with "sexy" names that aren't clever, just plain dirty.
-- Yeah... no more Red Headed Sluts, Screaming Orgasms, or Blowjob drinks... errr... wait... Blowjob shots are still ok
Prefacing every bite of junk food with "OMG, i'm soooo bad!!!"
-- I don't live in the Valley, so I don't have to worry about hearing this
Using multiple emotions or LOLs within any email, text, or IM
-- UHHH... I hate it when people do that even when they are under 30
Here's my "rules" for life in my 30s:
1. No more staying out past midnight on new year's eve. Wherever I am at midnight is where I'm sleeping.
-- The night just starts at midnight. I don't think that I can remember going to bed before midnight on any day unless I was really sick, or it was a crazy... crazy end of a weekend.
2. No more clubbing past 11pm unless I'm with my husband OR i'm seeing a friend i havent' seen in ages. After 11, if you're not single, its kinda boring.
-- What time do you go to a club... 5 or 6? People don't start showing up until after 10.
3. Seriously need to put the smackdown on the use of "and I'm all like, whatever, and she's all...". LIKE is not a word for SAID. ALL is not a word for SAID.
-- Again... I don't live in the Valley or the OC for that matter, so I don't have to worry about this
4. I will not feel bad declining events if I'm just in a grouchy mood or tired or whatever. Obligation is a thing of the 20s...in my 30s, I don't need to justify the use of my time. Suck it.
-- I attend events that I want to go to. If I'm not in a great mood than I would want to go out and do something to get me out of the house.
5. I will be diligent about taking vitamins.
-- I'm pretty bad at this... always have n' probably always will
6. I will be diligent about proper posture.
-- I never think about this... n' my posture has been bad ever since that stupid scoliosis test in 7th grade
7. If I should ever be single again (aliens abduct Kraig, i don't know!), I refuse to embrace the cougar lifestyle. I will remember that any activity that a 21-year-old mocks is never a good thing.
-- Again... Cougars now are in there 40's not there 30's from my semi-scientific study that I did last week
8. I will never buy beaded glasses-holders.
-- Those are not cool... even on my grandma
9. I will go through my old makeup and chuck anything that seemed okay when I was a crazy drunk party girl but just not okay now. Do I really need ten different shades of aqua, purple, and other "only looks good in black light" makeup?
-- No comment on the makeup... just wear some so that we know you have it on, but not too much to where it looks like you are a clown
10. I will wear sunblock even if i'm NOT going out in the sun.
-- I've never liked to wear sun block, and usually when I do I'm usually already burned
... interesting list
Hmmm, yeah i should have specified that that list is for CHICKS in their 30s...dudes are pretty much the same regardless if they're 19 or 59...
yeah... and I was bored at work n' needed to kill some time.
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