Pre-Birthday Countdown

[jetpack_monkey]

I keep telling myself that one week from today is just another birthday, that turning 25 isn't significantly different than turning 24 or 22 (although 23 is significant because I'm not going to be a prime number again until I'm 29).

I think I might be lying to myself. It feels significant. It feels heavy and weird and impossible. I never considered being older than 25, because I don't dwell on the future that much. It's not that I live for today -- it's just that being ADD, plans for the future always get waylaid. Things don't really change when your Big Ideas keep getting put aside for the next bit of shiny. So you stop. You make a reasonable, flexible budget (which you tend to overspend) and hope that your charm and your uncanny ability to rally together a last-minute plan get you through the year.

midnightfae has some sort of awesome (in the classical sense) and complicated Birthday Plan for me. I have no idea what it is and I'm grateful, because surprises are awesome. Plus, she gets me the best presents. She freakin' tracked down a Clone High DVD for me for Christmas in 2005. Clone. High. WIN.

Keep an eye out in the next seven days for the tracklist for my annual birthday mix CD and the semi-annual Top 25 movies update.

Comments

[kenobi.livejournal.com]

I kinda hope she rents out the YMCA guys and has them dance for you.

That would be hot.

25 is just another number. (ohgoditbetterbecauseangstypantsyangsty)

[kenobi.livejournal.com]

which btw it totally tho. I bet the best number age ever is 42.

for no reason.

[neonhummingbird.livejournal.com]

Looking back, I don't remember 25 as being a big deal for me; 30 was a little more traumatic, and I'm having a few issues today with 34. (I'm not in my early thirties anymore; I'm in my mid-thirties. It seems so much older.)

Birthdays are weird. :P

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

OH no, no, 34 is still early thirties, IMO. (I'm 32, so it damn well better be!) You're not in your mid-thirties until you're 35! ;)

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

For me, personally, 25 was a little more traumatic than 30. I'm not sure why, but it was.

Of course, the 5 year plan I set out for myself at 25 absolutely failed.

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

25 was weirdly traumatic for me, too. I had kind of a quasi quarterlife crisis, quit my job, went back to school, dyed my hair weird colors, smoked too much, and wrote strange stories about mysterious British people in nightclubs. o_O All in all, these wound up ultimately being good choices, but I think I just sort of had a major freakout and decided that Everything Must Change.

30 was a lot easier and had much happier associations. :)

ETA: The smoking too much was not a good choice. That's the one thing I don't advocate you suddenly start doing. ;)

[diannelamerc.livejournal.com]

I don't remember 25 being all that weird...the thought of 30 weirded me out far more.

Then again, 30 was surprisingly not-weird (or maybe not so surprising when everyone around you is partying like 'cuz it's 1999 and waiting for the world infrastructure to break down at midnight. :)

(And put me down as another vote for the YMCA dancers! ;-)

[steinba.livejournal.com]

25 is a significant age! You get to save a bunch of money on your car insurance. Hooray!

Also, I met all you crazy folks when I was 25, so 25 is awesome.

[kajivar]

You're all so young.

I hate you.

[kenobi.livejournal.com]

I would respond but I'm too busy being pulled in by the gravitational pull of your breasts.

[kajivar]

Those aren't boobs, that's a space station!