Comments on: Star Signs.

By: Carolyna S

Carolyna S — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:54:24 +0000

Well, sharing the same view as most of your other noters, I’m going to be 35 in December and still when someone tells me how old they are and they’re in their 30′s I think ‘Man, you’re old and boring’. Then I remember that so am I. I’ve got to say, it’s always a shock.

Your baby is adorable by the way.

Kiss kiss. Keep well, fellow 30-something teenager.

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:52:38 +0000

I have 5 years on you and have a three year old daughter and I still don’t completely feel like a grownup…still feel like I’m in my 20′s. I always assume that everyone is older than me and then I remember…Oh no, I’m 35!! How’d that happen?? My husband just turned 38 and feels the same way so I guess it’s normal?

By: DD

DD — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:16:41 +0000

Years ago, at my grandfather’s 80th birthday party, he said, “I never thought I would be sitting here, 80 years old, and still feel so much like ME on the inside.”

Deb

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:39:46 +0000

Wow… ok, I do feel like a grownup these days, but that’s probably because I can successfully manipulate my three-year-old into doing the right thing half the time.

I’m 37. In my twenties I was a teenager, trying to define myself and hang out with people my age. In my teens I was determined to never be a teenager and tried to be a grownup. I have come to so many realizations about not being able to follow every glancing thought about Exciting New Direction I Should Take My Life!! So yes, I feel older.

But at the same time, I’ve never expected I’d feel Like A Grownup, i.e. competent with makeup and briefcases. My own parents are geeks that don’t blend in and can’t fake it, so I never expected to turn into some magical grownup :)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:59:26 +0000

I always think – You are grown up when you are there is no-one else to clean up the puke.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:03:29 +0000

Ha! I just checked both of my girls’ horoscopes and it’s brilliant. For my irreverent 18-month-old:

Your way of seeing the world is as free and independent as your spirit today, and you really need to make sure that you keep talking despite opposition. People can see how right you are.

I suspect she read this actually.

By: Sallie

Sallie — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:38:41 +0000

I’m 28 and still think I’m 15. It’s really weird to me when I realize that actual teenagers look at me and think I am just someone’s mom, another boring grown up.

By: geohde

geohde — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:29:58 +0000

Thirty is the new twenty though, right?

Tht’s what I told myself when I crossed that particular milestone.

I’m waiting for a trendy way of making forty sound better, though.

By: Kath

Kath — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:16:13 +0000

“Look at that nice baby” indeed. Such a touching image!

I laughed so hard at that horoscope — I bet it was written by someone who was babysitting a toddler. And I laughed even harder at the word “brattiness-related,” which I see myself using often in the coming years…

And yes, for the longest time, I felt, too, that I was older than I was. Now I just feel old.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:16:35 +0000

Huh. I’m 42 and I feel like I’m 55. But that might just be because of my 1 year and 4 year old kicking my butt every day.

And that deadline… is it making you feel nauseous yet? That’s how you know you are really for real a real writer. Nausea. I suggest you just write the crappiest stuff you can – just throw a lot of words at the paper or rather computer screen. You’ll be stunned when you read it a couple days later. It will be shockingly good. I just promise you. Or maybe I’m just saying this because I desperately want to read your book and I won’t be able to if you don’t write it.