Chronologically and emotionally, I will be 31 next month. My attitude toward life is more like that of a 21 year old, but with the child-like wonder of a 6 year old.
Howdy, neighbor! We have a pretty good representation here from the Dallas area, and we are a friendly bunch, to boot. Watch the MPSIMS board here and join us next time we all get together. I have missed the last few, but hated that I had to.
On Sept. 1, 2000, I celebrated the Third Annual 29th Birthday (that makes me 31, BTW).
I’m a reasonably young man, but I’m practicing to be a codger in a few years; Misanthropic and grouchy outside, heart of a softie inside.
Who knows, maybe being born on the 30th Anniversary of the official start of WW II influcenced me, and the fact that my first solid memory of childhood is sitting at the kitchen table with Mom and watching the Ervin Watergate Senate hearings didn’t help.
I watch the Simpsons daily. I sing silly songs daily. I pretend I don’t know my children daily.
At supper, when Mrs. Nipples is working, we play,** “Now you see it, now you don’t”**. It’s a wondeful game where you put a huge peice of food in your mouth, and your kids giggle like…well kids.
For those of you who couldn’t be bothered with the math on Crunchy’s welcome thread, I’m 33[sup]1[/sup]/[sub]3[/sub] (if you don’t get the reference, that’s because I’m old and you’re not).
::imagines hearing the collective “ewwwwwwwwww…” from the minors on his cute list::
Yeah, that’s right, I’m a cantankerous old lech. Come over here and I’ll gum your shoulder.
Well, for you guys I’ll admit to being 43. 12/17/57 BUT!!! I still play video games, computer games and any other game I can find someone to play against. In other words I’m just a kid.
I’m 47. In all honesty I usually have to subtract to remember the number. One good thing coming from a family that never made a big deal over birthdays: it is just a number.
All in all it’s a weird but nice suprise, that I can still feel young inside w/o for one moment wanting to “undo” the years or experience. Hadn’t expected that.
Veb
(whose namesake has been thoroughly dead for a century, so there.)