Say Hello to Thirtysomething
I figure the best time to post would be on the Eve (well not exactly the EVE EVE but you know, fairly close) of my 30th Birthday! And I know (sadly) that people don't look forward to their 30th Birthday but that has a lot less to do with the number and more to do with their expectation of what that number means. ie: if you saw yourself married to Daniel Craig and at home barefoot and pregnant and that's a far flung dream then yes, it's a disappointment. But it's not the number 30's fault. (Can you tell? I watch a lot of Sesame Street.) Thirty is great. Being thirty is grand! You want to know why? I'm not neurotic about everything like I was in my early 20s. I spent so much time being crazy about boys, about my appearance, about clothes, about status symbol purchases, about stupid nonsense. Getting older is great because I have the best family, and I never appreciated it until very recently. I have amazing loving parents who bend over backw...