1. Your houseplants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.

2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.

3. You have more food than beer in the fridge.

4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not go to bed.

5. You hear your favorite song in an elevator.

6. You watch the weather channel.

7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of "hook up" and "break up".

8. You go from 130 days of vacation to 14 days.

9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualifies as dressed up.

10. You're the one calling the police because those &%#@ kids next door won't turn down the radio.

11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.

12. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.

13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.

14. You feed your Dog Science diet instead of Mcdonald left overs.

15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.

16. You take naps.

17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.

18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would upset, rather than settle your stomach.

19. You go to the drug store for iboprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy test.

20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer, "Pretty Good Shit".

21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.

22. "I can't drink the way I used to" Replaces "I'm never going to drink that much again"

23. 90% of your time in front of a computer is for real work.

24. You drink at home to save money before going to a bar.

25. When you find out a friend is pregnant you congratulate them instead of saying, "Oh shit! What the hell happened?"

oh god

Some of those apply to me.

Imago said:

I know Sweetie, I know

littlemissG said:

That one's the other way around, though. I no longer drink before going out to save money.

25. When you find out a friend is pregnant you congratulate them instead of saying, "Oh shit! What the hell happened?"

CarrieMpls said:

I barely drink at all now.

Imago said:

But surely not number 23?

Imago said:

Comparatively, me too.

I think number 11 is the only one that applies to me.

no. Nonononononono.

And about the weather channel... I only watch it for like five seconds at a time to see the temperature and then OFF it goes...but I know someone who watches it all day sometimes.

I don't have any houseplants.

littlemissG said:

blasphemy!

Instead of wanting to say 'yes' to all those statements, I was actually looking for holes in the ones that are true...I'm supposed to be embracing my inner five year old right now! That's my one goal, and apparently I'm not doing it well enough.
So another temper tantrum.

evenstar3 said:

I will never ever be able to do that. My stomach is like an old steam train that has to slowly get rolling before it can do any work.

20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer, "Pretty Good Shit".




Old English 800, Boones farm, Mad Dog 20/20
I may have to rethink my "I miss my 20's " attitude.

Protege said:

Girl, that avatar is scaring the shit out of me.

It's almost perfect in it's ability to evoke horror.

Also,

A 12 dollar hair cut was splurging.

Imago said:

You helped create it.

Imago said:

ok, I never went that far.

Imago said:

i totally haven't cut my hair since i've been at college 'cause every time i go to a salon the prices drive me nuts.

CarrieMpls said:

I did


I was one thrift store shopping, cheap ass haircut, pick-between-food-or-beer-with-what-chash-I-had-left-till-payday motherfucker!

I cut my own hair.

edit: waitwaitwait! for extra five year old-ish measure, I cut it with CRAYOLA SCISSORS!!!!


[Edited 3/7/07 18:21pm]

retina said:

the only time i ever get sick to my stomach is when i get food poisoning, which hasn't happened since i was 14 or so.

Imago said:

oh, I was broke broke broke for many years, but my hair never suffered. I would do my hair before eating. I spent over a month's rent to get extensions as one point even.

OK, it suffered briefly when I was 18 and decided to let my friend chop it all off and I'm thankful to this day that only 1 picture survives from that period.

CarrieMpls said:

Was this when you had crispy buffoon 80's hair?

Imago said:

CarrieMpls said:

Tell the truth---were you ever an Aquanet girl!

Imago said:

Guess what Aquanet's really, really good for????

Im an old heifer

Imago said:

Nope.

OK, I did curl my bangs a little bit in 6th-7th grade. But they were never big, never crispy and the rest of my hair was not sprayed all out to there.