buonoj13 - you can go back in and edit your own post by clicking on the edit icon in the lower right hand corner. No one will be the wiser

and you don't sound like a dolt!

When is your daughter's birthday? You know you're going to have to watch out for those cancerian traits as she gets older - artistic, nurturing, caring but also moody, sensitive and deep thinking, though I personally think those are good things

Zoe's birthday was yesterday, the big 3! She has all those traits already, but I love her for them. I am the Leo to a T, so we balance each other very well. Then we have the guys, both son and hubby, both of who could not be more Virgoish, so they try to keep us both on task. All in all a pretty balanced household for the most part.

Whee - also a leo. and fit it almost to a T too. Mine is on 7/31. Big 2-6. I was totally bummed out for my 25th, but I think I'll make it through 26- no need to get bummed again til 30 right?

Boy, my hubby whined about turning 30 from the time I met him (he was 23) til he actually turned 30 - and then he didn't want to talk about it at all. Boys!

Happy Belated Birthday to your little one!

Lizziness - age is only a big deal if you make it so. Turning 30 rocks! When I hit it I felt more self confident and secure in myself than I ever had. I think it's because of my attitude of "I'm too old for this crap and I don't have to put up with anything I don't want to!"

Turning 30 both sucked and didnt. It was bad because I wanted a low key immediate family quiet BBQ and DH tried to turn it into a party - which usually I would be into but for some reason I didnt feel like it that day - was striving for a mature gathering I guess.

Then after inviting all these people over - he gets involved in some concrete project that he just had to do that day (ironically had to distroy it later to excavate under the house) so we have all these people coming so guess who had to go shopping for the party she didnt even want?

On the up side - I was carded at the liquor store. Only good to come of the whole nightmare.

Then this year when I turned 36 we went to a bar and since I was down many pounds, I dressed up a bit - but in a style more for a twenty something and was carded on my 36th bday - nearly hugged the waitress.

I credit my freckles and 12 year old taste in clothes.

Heh. Yeah, I'm not too worried about 30. I guess it depends on where my life is at that point. I was so upset about 25 because I got married young and went to work and never went to college - and all the people my age were graduating or doing something great, and I wasn't. Didn't help that one of my writer friends that I used to hang out with and do well.. writer-like things - published a book. It was utterly depressing. But now I guess I'm over it for the most part. You have to go with the flow and you can't look back too much.

Wow, Lizziness, I felt the same way at 25, got married at 18 and then never graduated college (although I have taken more anthropology classes than I can count, but since that isn't my major...) But 30 freaked me out too, I turn 34 on the 5th of August, but so far I am ok with it. I am just not sure what I want to do when I grow up, oh yeah, I am grown up. therein lies my problem. I always thought men were the ones with peter pan syndrome, but here I sit perpetually 22. Anyway, hope you guys had a great day.

buonoj13 - I hear you! I still feel like I'm 25!

I was excited to turn 30. I told everyone I wanted a cane to wack annoying youngsters with "Git off me lawn and pull up your **%$ pants!"

Now that I'm closer to 40 than 30.... it's starting to slightly stress me out

Happy birthday all you Leos! I'm a cappy but my rising sign is Leo (no big shock when I learned that!).

Tani that cracked me up! I SO hear ya on the pants thing - nothing makes me feel older than the current "fashion". WHY do I want to see your underwear?????

I'll be 37 in January. I can't believe the slide to 40 is here NOW. I don't feel it, I honestly don't feel much different than when I left high school, physically anyway. Mentally/emotionally, being in my mid-30's is sooooooooo much better than teens/20's. I wouldn't go back there if someone paid me! I look forward to being the crone, the eccentric auntie with tattoos, celebrating full moons, equality in the Divine and an herb or lotion to cure all ails.

So, yet another reason to lose weight and get healthy. I won't live to be a crone if I don't! HA!

Have a great weekend all!

Terri

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend!

I worked on the garden but didn't do much else.

I turned 30 in May. The Cute Boyfriend took me to Hawaii so I could forget about it. It's not the age thing that bothers me, it's mortality. I want to live forever.

Ha! Wait until you are 46 and everything goes south and drops off! You will not want to live forever then!!!

I read Interview with a Vampire living forever scares me, I'll take living to be a ripe old age, but then I am ready to go. I don't fear death, I fear aging. I know that death is not the end, but aging can be a prison if you let it. That's why I am here, I want feel good as time goes on. Looking better is part of it, but mostly, I want my body and mind to stay in sync for as long as possible.

When I was a teen I could not imagine living past 30. That was OLD. Somehow 20, 30 and 40 slipped past. Wow, where did they go?

It is ironic that just as I am feeling some confidence I am getting older! But it is supposed to come with age anyway. I just do not want to be left in an old people's home sitting in my own poo and/or in my own urine etc etc. Horrid thought. I am sure some home are ok but it is a worry.