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Current mood: enthralled

Guess who's going to be a Fairly Oddparent?!? ME!!! One of my best friends from Kentucky is having a baby girl in November and I've been asked to be her godfather.

It's very perspective changing to have a close friend having a child. While he is a few years older than I am, it's very disconcerting to have someone in my circle procreating. We are all still kids dammit! And yet, in my vast circle of friends and acquaintances around my age, I have marriages, divorces, kids, deaths, self-employees, business owners... it's amazing to sit back and watch the world around you change, and while it doesn't seem as though, you change with it and in response to it.

Finding myself 2300 miles from "home" and nearly a thousand miles from my surrogate home, self-employed and independent; it's enough to catch me off-guard occasionally.

I remember the days of...
...stay up all night and go to work on 2 hours or less of sleep.
...doesn't matter what you drink, have a great time!
...so what if you haven't eaten, just have a drink!
...Bills? Let's party!
...grownups just don't understand
...getting carded for cigarettes
...getting carded for the bar
...being the youngest in the bar

Now it's...
...gotta be in bed by 11 to be useful the next day
...only one kind of alcohol and plenty of ibuprofen
...I have to eat before, during or after drinking
...can't drink, have to pay bills!
...only if the cashier is a teenager
...I still get carded at bars :)
...Sometimes one of the youngest, but feel like the oldest

Yes, now I find myself saying those age defining statements like:
...Kids today are terrible!
...If that was my child...
...Today's music is awful!
...Remember when gas was under a dollar?
...What's the world coming to?
...I said I'd quit smoking when they got to $2 a pack
...Whatever happened to...
and the clincher
...That's a nice looking Buick!