The big three oh.

Maria said:

The Naval Aviation Museum this past weekend was fun. Except the part where the volunteers asked me if the baby was a girl or a boy and when I answered "boy" and rolled my eyes, Tony had to chime in and explain that the "girl" they were seeking out in our group was not there... she just graduated high school. I elbowed him in the ribs and told him how much I hate it that he does that. It makes me feel so ... old. I am not old enough to have an 18 year old.

Tony and I are 8 years apart. When you are older, age really does not matter so much as when you're .. say 12 and 20 years old... or even 20 and 28. I'm 29, Tony is 37. Not a big deal. We hardly notice.

Except for times like at the museum.

At any rate, my decade of being in my 20s is rapidly coming to a screeching halt. February is fast approaching and I am far from prepared. While on Facebook a while back, I noticed one of my high school classmates looking for ideas for her to-do list for before she turns 30. I so need one of those. Although, it may have been a better idea to come up with this list, oh, say, 10 years ago.


Tony said:

Yes I agree. It can be a little annoying when people ask whether or not Nicholas is a boy or girl. Seriously I won't go out in public and let Maria put anything on him even in the shade of yellow. I prefer to stick to the "manly" colors of black, blue, maroon, brown; you get the idea. The kind of things you would never dress your daughter in.
Now as far as bringing up my daughter, I have several reasons. The first and most important is I never want Maria to forget what having a teenage daughter in the house is like. You know, just in case Maria starts to get the idea that she wants to try for a daughter. And the second reason is that I am not going to be a grandfather by myself. I pride myself on being able to live up to the old adage: you're only as old as you feel. And frankly I am very young until the end of the day.

Now I'd like to help Maria out with that list of hers. Here's some advise to live by. If you make out a list of all the things you want to accomplish it can only go one of two ways.
First let's say you accomplish everything on said list. After the euphoria wears off you will spend the next two years in a deep depression wondering what in the hell you are living for and what you are going to do next.
Now let's say you don't finish the list. Most likely you will fall into a deep depression because you were unable to finish the list. You will feel like a loser. So keep the list unwritten, in other words make a mental list and take your entire life to finish it.
You may be asking how I can be so well informed about this list thing. Two years of trying to figure out what comes next enlightened me.