You Know You're Getting Old When...

As Mark and I were driving the three plus hours to his mother's house in the Bay Area last Friday, we couldn't help but laugh at the conversations we were having....we sounded so...OLD! We used to talk about going out, partying and who recently hooked up with who. Now, we find ourselves talking about taxes, sore backs and food.

Over the course of the last five days, we constantly caught ourselves saying or doing things that we never would have done ten, or even five, years ago. The running joke became, "Damn, you know you're old when..." Mark thought it would be funny to create a running list of these things and to have me post them on my blog. Below, is the list we've started...

You Know You Are Old When...

1. You get socks, underwear and ear and nose hair trimmers for Christmas and you are actually excited about it!

2. You have to pop five Tums after eating things like onions or pizza with red sauce because those items now give you heartburn or indigestion.

3. You leave Christmas parties at 8 because your kid is tired and has to go to bed, but truth be told, you are actually really tired too. 

4. You complain that the bill from the Olive Garden is too expensive when all you ordered was two appetizers and two desserts even though you used to go out in Vegas and spend an insane amount of money on dinner at NINE and didn't even flinch at the bill. 

5. Your hangovers now last for three days instead of three hours.

6. Your New Years Eve plans consist of making fondue at home and watching a good movie. 

7. You started getting hair in random places on your body (I like to call these "phantom hairs") or you find one really, really long hair on a part of your body where there is actually supposed to be hair.

8. You find yourself saying phrases like, "You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig." 

That's all we could remember at the moment which is frustrating because we must have said "You know you're old when...." about twenty times over the last few days. We'll keep a list running and I'll update it occasionally. Feel free to add anything you do or say that makes you think, "Damn, I'm getting old."