Ok, I know some of you don’t actually read anything that is posted on a site unless it has an immediate effect on you. So don’t read below the warning unless you want to feel a little old ok?

I knew this day would come. June 13 (41 days from today) will place me exactly 6 months away from being 30. (That means I am 7 months and 10 days away now). I am ok with this. Being 30 does not scare me. It does not make me “old”, it doesn’t change anything.

This is probably because I do not look like I’m almost 30. Most people usually think I’m about 25 or 26. When they see Rapunzel they don’t think she’s almost 10, they think she’s 7. It is hereditary.

In high school my Mom came to pick me up early, they told me my sister was there, I do not have a sister. (Well I do, and she’s great, but I didn’t then. To say I was confused is an understatement. It was in fact my Mom, who is only 16 years, 9 months, and 6 days older than me. So in all reality it could have been my sister. But it wasn’t.

This happens a lot. I know it is a good thing. Maybe if I can actually loose the extra 40-50 pounds I am carrying around, I won’t look like a “pregnant Mommy”, and I’ll look even younger!

Maybe I won’t feel old. Maybe I’ll feel, vintage.

You see, old is yucky. Vintage is cool. I would much rather be “vintage”, wouldn’t you?

Apparently my childhood now fits into the vintage category. That makes me laugh. Does that make things from when my MIL and FIL were growing up antiques? (No I am not saying you are old, Mom and Kedge). I’m just babbling.

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I actually read this today while on my Etsy page.

Here is an excerpt:

“Vintage – This special vintage search returns only items within the Vintage category. This means items with vintage as their first tag (selected from the drop down menu in the listing process). Only items 20 years or older can go in Vintage.”

Did you see that “20 years or older?” That would be 1988, I was almost 10.

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I remember 1988. I watched Alf, had an ALF birthday complete with tape playing talking doll (which I still have the tape and box to also), and cake. Ewok’s, Rainbow Brite, Twink and the other Sprite’s (which I think I have the whole Taco Bell collection.), and the Garbage Pail Kids. The Dodgers won the world series with Oral Hershiser at the mound, and we went to Sears or Penny’s to get the t-shirt.

When did this happen? Apparently I wasn’t looking when it did. But that’s ok.

Maybe I can make some money on it. Because we all know that these items are worth about a billion dollars. So I should be able to sell them quickly, easily, and never work again from the profits.

Well, apparently I fell off the wagon. I managed to blog one whole time in the month of December.

And it wasn’t for lack of trying. I actually started a few posts, but never managed to finish them. Add a whole week in the High Desert, where I have full internet access and a computer that won’t allow WP to work no matter what I do, and the month goes poof.

Christmas was spent with my parents, brother, and grandmother in the High Desert. New years was spent at SAJ’s san SAJ and BB.

All in all the holidays went well.

The girls got just about everything they wanted, wait, scratch that, with the addition of $25 cash EACH, they did get everything they wanted. I got new pj’s, slippers, cd’s and Meet the Robinsons. Shawn got pants, pj’s a new front pocket wallet, a Brooks and Dunn cd, Pirates 3, the new Die Hard, and Fantastic 4 and the Silver Surfer. Everyone was happy.

For those of you checking out Flickr, I apologize for the lack of photos from Christmas, my brother took all the photos and I just haven’t uploaded from the disk to the computer yet. But there will be more coming.

The good news is that after getting about 10 decent shots of Rapunzel all last year, I think we made up for it today.

Not to mention the worlds most awesome sunset. We stayed until it was gone and you could no longer see Catalina.

I was tagged by Kim at ancora imparo to do a NaBloPoMo meme. I haven’t done one of these things in so long it might actually be fun.

We all have things that we think are weird or unusual about us. Where other people look at us and say, “that’s not weird, I do that. ”

So here’s your chance to see how weird I think I am.

1. I love to eat ice cream wrapped up in a blanket in front of the fire when it’s snowing outside.
2. I come across as happy go lucky and super outgoing. When all I want to do is crawl in a hole and hide.
3. I’m afraid of heights, closets, elevators and driving.
4. I don’t know how to accept a complement. If someone complements me I almost always feel like they’re only saying it to make me feel better, because it can’t be true.
5. I really hate clutter but I hate getting rid of things too.
6. I’d rather stay at home and read and be by myself than go out with friends or family. This is true 95% of the time.
7. I read romance novels because they’re easy and fast, but I don’t enjoy them. I actually find them boring because I can usually predict what is going to happen.

Here are the rules:

1- Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.

2- Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.

3- Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.

4- Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

I’m tagging:

unabashedly me, the shrubbery, amusing on life, all consuming, where’s the mute button?, sicker than others, and getting my kicks.

So how weird can you be? If I didn’t tag you and you would like to participate please do. Just leave a little note saying that you’re participating.

Updated to add:

I’m also going to tag Bethany Actually because she’s never been tagged before. The only reason I didn’t tag her before was it said to tag random people.

Every mom at one point or another can say that they have a pain “In My Middle.” Bethany can help you with that pain. She is a life coach, wife, mom of two boys, and has started a new site aptly called Sane Moms. It’s not complete yet but I expect it to be great.
This woman is awesome. I only wish she didn’t live on the other side of the country. I also hope I can see her again one day soon.