Things that are making me feel old

With baby #2 on the way and things aching more than they used to I have been thinking a lot about being old.

I know that at 27 this should not be on my mind but it is.

There are several things that are making me feel old currently - here is an abridged version.

1. I graduated high school 10 years ago in August. 10 years ago right now my biggest worries were finding the right dress for prom, deciding on a major, getting my STAR Event finalized for competition, finding a birthday present for my boyfriend and hoping I would be accepted into Clovia. Occasionally I still worry about finding a dress for prom and what I am getting my husband for his birthday.
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2.. Facebook is almost 10 years old...as it the same year I graduated high school FB was born. (February 4th to be exact)






3. My husband is going to be 30 in less than a month. I always felt like hitting the big 3-0 was more adult like than being 18 or 21. This means I am married to an adult. YIKES - good thing he is cute.

4. Things that happened in my lifetime that I think were just yesterday are no longer in the "miscellaneous" category for scholars bowl but in the "science", "history" and "language arts" portions of the scholars bowl meets. They are novel things that the kids don't know. WTF?? How do you not know that we used to have nine planets and that it was called Pluto?
  This is not the only Pluto that once existed.

5. You have to SUBSCRIBE to the Boomerang channel to watch "old" cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Looney Toons, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Sylvester and Tweety. This seems borderline blasphemous.

6. My former students are getting married and/or having children ON PURPOSE! They are actively procreating. That is so weird.

7. My students have heard of Usher and know a few of his newer songs but have no idea he had some sweet raps back in the day and was full of soul on his My Way CD. I have kept very few of my CDs. I am going to make like Rick Astley and never give that one up.

8. Radio stations now call it "Classic 90's" music.

9. I blew a kid's mind one day. They had this awesome rap song from "a cray long time ago" so I listened to it. Oh Marky Mark, be still my beating heart. When the kids learned that Marky Mark was Mark Wahlberg they were aghast. Then to find out his brother was in NKOTB. OMG!!! It was a day of true revelations - I am proud to have brought them to the light.

 


The list could go on and on for days but I am tired and that is 10. I am so stinking tired all the time. When did this happen?

In love with an appliance!

The fact that I am proclaiming my love for any type of kitchen gear should surprise no one. Anytime someone buys me a kitchen or house tool is fine with me. My husband once brought home a new vaccum and I jumped up and down. Maybe I was born in the wrong era.

I have wanted an immersion blender for a gazillion years but could never justify buying one (even though they are relatively cheap).

The reasoning "I have an 8 cup food processor, a blender and a 2 cup food processor. If I can't grind or chop it now there are bigger problems at hand."

Then something wonderful happened. My husband decided to make Snickers Blizzards! He is awesome at making frozen treats, if his business doesn't work out I want him to work at Dairy Queen, or Coldstone, yeah Coldstone!

Anyways....so he opened an ENTIRE bag of mini snickers and put THEM ALL in the blender with the milk and ice cream and began his magic. Then everything stopped and the notable stench of appliance death filled the kitchen. I was so sad - not for my beautiful blender (a present from him the year earlier) but for the loss of a delicious treat.

I immediately ran for the basement - THE FOOD PROCESSOR! The larger capacity and hefty motor did the trick, as did blending in two batches. It was delicous, but not worth the loss of the blender. The food processor became a counter top staple even past it's high point of use during garden harvesting time.

I couldn't justify buying a blender with summer coming to a close and my pregnancy - ice cream treats, smoothies and alcoholic delights are pretty much all that the blender is used for and the food processor was doing just fine with the first too.

And then there was Christmas - I have a hard time finding things to ask for at Christmas time. The list was quite short this year: black dress socks, scarves, cardigans, maternity dress pants and an immersion blender.....the holy grail of cooking show tools.

When that box was unwrapped and it was apparent that the contents of the box matched the exterior of the box I was estatic. Since the Friday after Christmas (1 week since today) I have used this delightful tool 5 times! The roasted red pepper linguini wasn't the best but it was a lot of fun to make. I was giddy while blending!

Smoothies for Carly and I are so easy now and take so much less clean up. This handy tools breaks into two pieces for easy storage - much less space than the blender.

I don't know that I will ever buy a blender again. I am in love.