Dangerously close...

[tolyk]

Well, this thread took off decently Spins, now let's keep it bumped up and active eh?!

 

[clearlight30]

spins
27 isn't the year to worry about, its 28
you got a whole year to go

 

[Spins]

spins
27 isn't the year to worry about, its 28
you got a whole year to go

I always do things ahead of time

 

[mirrors2]

Crap.

28 is getting awfully close..

 

[Spins]

Crap.

28 is getting awfully close..

Yeah. It just keeps creeping by. One day it's July first and everything in the world is great and humming along swimingly.

Then all of a sudden it's a week until Christmas and you just look up and say, "What the fuck!"

 

[mirrors2]

Yeah. It just keeps creeping by. One day it's July first and everything in the world is great and humming along swimingly.

Then all of a sudden it's a week until Christmas and you just look up and say, "What the fuck!"

At least at 40 I'm allowed to get a Corvette or something to compensate.

 

[Spins]

At least at 40 I'm allowed to get a Corvette or something to compensate.

That's a good fucking point.

Perhaps we need to brainstorm ideas of what we are allowed to purchase as we turn thirty. <ponders>

By the way...'57 Corvette Gazer with removable hard top and customizied to look like a drag racer. Corvette red, of course.

 

[mirrors2]

That's a good fucking point.

Perhaps we need to brainstorm ideas of what we are allowed to purchase as we turn thirty. <ponders>

By the way...'57 Corvette Gazer with removable hard top and customizied to look like a drag racer. Corvette red, of course.

I don't suppose a set of Le Creuset cookware would work, would it? Cause I'd be okay with getting that.

 

[juvare]

30 isn't so bad. I promise!

Most of society doesn't expect men to be accomplished, married or any of that other good stuff until they are in their mid-late 30's. That's when you find the hot twenty something, get married and have babies.

 

[Spins]

30 isn't so bad. I promise!

Most of society doesn't expect men to be accomplished, married or any of that other good stuff until they are in their mid-late 30's. That's when you find the hot twenty something, get married and have babies.

I think you must live in some other society

Thanks for the input, though.

Any thoughts on what would be a good turning thirty gift? Corvette's can't be bought until after forty

 

[mirrors2]

I think you must live in some other society

Thanks for the input, though.

Any thoughts on what would be a good turning thirty gift? Corvette's can't be bought until after forty

...and kitchen stuff is a crappy 'turning thirty' gift. I'm sure I can think of something better.

 

[Spins]

I don't suppose a set of Le Creuset cookware would work, would it? Cause I'd be okay with getting that.

I think a cook set would imply domestication.

However, i'd like to have a set. <ponders>

This whole turning thirty thing is just too much

 

[mirrors2]

I think a cook set would imply domestication.

However, i'd like to have a set. <ponders>

This whole turning thirty thing is just too much

Well, the cook set doesn't really say "bad ass" quite as much as the Corvette. So, mebbe the cook set can just be purchased quietly on the side, leaving room for an 'official' turning 30 gift.

 

[juvare]

I was being facetious. 30 really is a great age. You are old enough to really take stock of your life and figure out the steps to take to make it what you want and young enough to still change the things you want to or need to so that making those steps aren't difficult.

A good gift? I'll have to think on that.

 

[mirrors2]

I was being facetious. 30 really is a great age. You are old enough to really take stock of your life and figure out the steps to take to make it what you want and young enough to still change the things you want to or need to so that making those steps aren't difficult.

A good gift? I'll have to think on that.

Dammit, if it doesn't sound so bad, then the gift is much harder to justify.

 

[juvare]

Dammit, if it doesn't sound so bad, then the gift is much harder to justify.

Not really. Instead of compensation it should be in celebration that compensation is still years off. Ha!

 

[mirrors2]

Not really. Instead of compensation it should be in celebration that compensation is still years off. Ha!

...

Okay, that's true.

 

[lil_squirter]

And you can celebrate with cookware!

 

[chronicle_tenko]

I own 3 full kitchen sets now. Why I don't know. I'm 24, I've been in a headlong rush to 40 since 21. I have premature arthritis it's time enough to be responsible.

I'm not though. I work a job I enjoy that pays almost nothing because I enjoy it. I live with a college roomate and I have no plans other than to be happy a whole year before I attempt to do anything. I also would like to be semi financially secure, though all I have learned is I can live damn cheap if I try.

My family expected me to be an officer and well into a career by now, I guess I let them down. I don't mind though.

I figure as long as I'm happy I'm good.

I also don't go much for the hallmark dime store one line advice. I tend to ramble occasionally with or without a point to make. I think this may be a time for the latter. I guess as long as you're happy, Who cares.

As for me and 30. No real thoughts. A 6 year plan doesn't look well. I know that I'll have a better job by then. And that I'll be married at 33.

 

[lil_squirter]

I have no advice, cause frankly I don;t think anyone here can know what anyone else has gone through to see the world as they do. So all I can say is I know how I've done things in my life and how I would do them again or change them by that point of view.

All in all, major bad stuff that was unavoidable aside, I'm pretty happy with me.

 

[Spins]

I own 3 full kitchen sets now. Why I don't know. I'm 24, I've been in a headlong rush to 40 since 21. I have premature arthritis it's time enough to be responsible.

I'm not though. I work a job I enjoy that pays almost nothing because I enjoy it. I live with a college roomate and I have no plans other than to be happy a whole year before I attempt to do anything. I also would like to be semi financially secure, though all I have learned is I can live damn cheap if I try.

My family expected me to be an officer and well into a career by now, I guess I let them down. I don't mind though.

I figure as long as I'm happy I'm good.

I also don't go much for the hallmark dime store one line advice. I tend to ramble occasionally with or without a point to make. I think this may be a time for the latter. I guess as long as you're happy, Who cares.

As for me and 30. No real thoughts. A 6 year plan doesn't look well. I know that I'll have a better job by then. And that I'll be married at 33.

At least you have a plan. I need a plan <nods>

 

[Spins]

I have no advice, cause frankly I don;t think anyone here can know what anyone else has gone through to see the world as they do. So all I can say is I know how I've done things in my life and how I would do them again or change them by that point of view.

All in all, major bad stuff that was unavoidable aside, I'm pretty happy with me.

I think you have things more together than you let on, Empress.

 

[cookiecat]

at 40-something, i can only say enjoy what you have at this very moment and don't worry too much. and start putting money in your 401k now.

your perpective on life will certainly change - i'm way more about not giving too much of a sh*t what others think than when i was in my twenties & early thirties. but i seem to recall having more youthful energy? maybe it was less responsibility - no looming thoughts of retirement, mortgage payments, not being able to read the little print (the horror! just like my mom & dad!)...

so - enjoy.

 

[Spins]

at 40-something, i can only say enjoy what you have at this very moment and don't worry too much. and start putting money in your 401k now.

your perpective on life will certainly change - i'm way more about not giving too much of a sh*t what others think than when i was in my twenties & early thirties. but i seem to recall having more youthful energy? maybe it was less responsibility - no looming thoughts of retirement, mortgage payments, not being able to read the little print (the horror! just like my mom & dad!)...

so - enjoy.

Money? What's that?

I'm trying not to worry, but I have this little voice in my head that is getting louder and louder about what I haven't done. What i'm not doing.

Worry and me are like chinese food and peanut butter

 

[cookiecat]

Money? What's that?

I'm trying not to worry, but I have this little voice in my head that is getting louder and luder about what I haven't done. What i'm not doing.

Worry and me are like chinese food and peanut butter

the voices in your head never really go away... you just learn to be friends.