Incoherent Scribblings

25 Signs you are over 25

Someone sent me this list a while back. After reading it, I must ask myself, “Hey, when did I grow up?!”

1. Your potted plants are alive. And you can’t smoke a single one of them.
2. Having sex in a twin-sized bed is absurd.
3. You keep more food than beer or wine in the fridge.
4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to sleep.
5. You hear your favorite song on an elevator.
6. You carry an umbrella. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of hookup and breakup.
8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 7.
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as ‘dressed up.’
10. You’re the one calling the police because those darn kids next door don’t know how to turn down the stereo.
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’s.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
16. You no longer take naps from noon to 6 p.m.
17. Dinner and a movie - The Whole Date - instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 a.m. would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
19. You go to the drugstore for ibuprofen and antacids, not condoms and pregnancy test kits.
20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer ‘pretty good stuff.’
21. You actually eat breakfast foods at breakfast time.
22. “I just can’t drink the way I used to,” replaces “I’m never going to drink that much again.”
23. Over 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
24. You don’t drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
25. You read this entire list looking for one sign that doesn’t apply to you!

If these signs also apply to you, Welcome to the Wonderful World of Adulthood.

By the way, I didn’t order this whole adulthood package… I want a refund!

February 29, 2004 - Leap Year

Leap Year Links of the Day:

It comes around only once every four years… leap year.

But why do we have leap years in the first place?
Click here to find out… or here… or here…
(Yes, today I am too lazy to write the information that is already provided by a multitude of websites!)

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have leap day for a birthday? Or… If someone is born today, will they be 1 year old next year or not until 2008?
This website, dedicated to those born on leap day, will give you some information.

Did you know there was a World Wide Leap Year Festival?

Or a Leap Year Online Museum?

Techno Pack-Rat

According to my personal lexicon, a “techno-pack-rat” is person who can not delete any files or otherwise get rid of any obsolete electronic equipment.

My husband and I come from “pack-rat” families. Everybody knows somebody that just can’t throw anything away… and for some reason everybody (with the exception of us) in each of our families are like that and we try really hard not to be that way. Of course, as time goes on we all accumulate junk, but unlike a pack rat, we can throw things away.

But one night, A. was going through the files on his computer and mentioned to me that he had files with creation dates of 1993! I asked if he was going to delete them… he hesitated… I asked if he REALLY needed them… he hesitated again. It was at this point that I called him a techno-pack-rat. We then traded verbal barbs for a few minutes, but now he will forever be my techno-pack-rat!

Cultural References

Sometimes I forget that A. didn’t grow up in America (he’s Austrian) and experience the phenomenon that was American Pop Culture in the 70s and 80s with me.

A few nights ago after pulling the sheets out of the dryer I wrapped them around me and proceeded to the living room chanting “TOGA, TOGA.” When A. looked at me with curiosity, I asked, “What no toga party?” He quite innocently replied back to me, “What’s a toga party?”

After some cross-examination I learned he has never seen Animal House!!!

I guess I should have been tipped off the other day when I popped Ghostbusters into the DVD player and found out it was the first time he had seen it in English! (Don’t you just love the language choice menus on DVD players?)

Doonesbury and $10K

I have only read Doonesbury sporadically through the years… but this is great!