I'm old, deal with it.

Last night I was tiptoeing around my house because everyone else was asleep and I was not ready to go to bed.
It was 8:30 pm. Only babies and grandmas and grown men with terrible kidney stone pain should be in bed before 9 pm.

I stayed up until about 10:30 to watch my brother's girlfriend's appearance on "LA Ink" (she is the hula hooper Krisy Rose) and then I fell asleep fast.

So, yeah, I'm old.

But I used to be cool.
I used to stay up late and go party and hang out with friends. I used to see movies IN THE MOVIE THEATER and not just on TBS with all the cursing bleeped out. Effing effers.
Now I stay up late to finish laundry. Bleh.

While I was awake at the *ahem* wee hour of 9 pm I thought I might color my hair with the Garnier Nutrisse I bought last week.

I was checking out the box debating whether or not I wanted to get into all that when I realized....
I picked out a color that is pretty much the exact hair color that I already have naturally. I laid my hair over the "this is what your hair will look like" picture and dangit, it already looked like that.

Lame.

I mean really, what's the point!?
So I'm going to try to exchange it later today for something more...different and less totally lame.

**As a side point, did you know that when you get on LA Ink (you have to audition) you still have to pay for your tattoo? And did you know that it is SO NOT CHEAP! Krisy got her tattoo done by Kim, not even KatVonD, and it was wow! Knock your socks off moola. Rent money moola. But, she got to be on TV so, that's cool.

Thirty, flirty and ... oh who am I kidding....

This is my last week as a twenty-something...
I'm torn up about it.
Having a husband who will continue to BE a twenty-something until May 2010 doesn't help my very fragile ego either.

While I know that having my age start with a 3 won't really change anything about me, I wonder which of my totally regular twenty-something traits and activities will become totally unacceptable as a thirty-something...

Here are my concerns:

Can I still watch "The Hills"?
Can I still wear flip flops to the grocery store? If so, can they be glittery?
Are graphic tees and hoodies allowed? Or is that just sad? Cause I really love graphic hoodies....
Chunky highlights? Ponytails? What is still OK hairwise? Audrina hair? No?
Do I HAVE to eat Fiber One for breakfast?
Am I required to worry about my cholesterol?
Can I still rock fun colored nail polish?
Can I still say that I "rocked" anything?

I'm so confused.

Another big scary life changing realization is that the next time I buy a car it will be a big damn minivan.
My life, as measured by the car I drive, has really slid backwards!
At 20 I drove a hot Ford Mustang.
By the age of 25 I was married and driving a friggin Mazda sedan.
Now looking at the precipice that is 30, I can see that in the not too distant future I'll be rocking a minivan, in a sensible pants suit and loafers, with a nice shag bob in normal human colors, with lots of fiber in my diet and absolutely no knowledge whatsoever about who L.C. is dating and what's up with Speidi.

Sigh.