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16Apr2004 Filed under: JournalishThis is the one-month signal flare warning: I turn 29 on May 16th.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Cinnamon
April 15th, 2004 at 11:12 pm
I knew I liked ya! Fellow Taurus here…May 6. Tho, I am horrifically turning 36! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. But everybody says I look 26…it’s the sex & the rock n roll.
Ivy
April 16th, 2004 at 6:30 am
How do you feel about that? I am turning 29 and June and eeek! I keep telling myself that age ain’t nothing but a number and I still get i. d.-ed for everything, but eek! It’s not like I am giving up sex, drugs and rock and roll or buying my jeans at Eddie Bauer (wink) or driving around in a kid-encrusted mini-van, but eek!
Ariel
April 16th, 2004 at 7:15 am
Ivy, I’m feeling just fine about it. I know a lot of very inspired/inspiring 30somethings, and nary a mini-van in sight! Plus: the older I get, the funnier the fart jokes become!
Tumbleweed
April 16th, 2004 at 10:10 am
Yay Taureans! May 18th for me. 37. Ugh.
dave
April 16th, 2004 at 1:05 pm
Me Taurus too. Turning 35 next week. And we’ve had the minivan for 2 years now. Yikes.
Matt
April 16th, 2004 at 4:11 pm
My mum’s been 29 for the last three decades.
Matt
April 16th, 2004 at 4:15 pm
I was 33 ten days ago. When my dad was my age he had four kids and had been married for twelve years. I have an awful feeling I’m going to be the one who makes the family name extinct (thank god for the seven others in the London phone book). In any case, since I’m 33 and therefore old, my prostate fell out years ago. I can’t reach down and pick it up because my back’s gone. There is now even grey hair in my chest! So do exactly the opposite to what I’ve been doing, and you’ll sail into your thirties with ease.
ken
April 16th, 2004 at 8:03 pm
Forty-friggin-two on May 9. So that makes me 14 years and 51 weeks older than Electrolicious. Right? (Forgive me if the math is a little loose - there’s bourbon in my brain.) The thirties are a breeze, and the forties are when you start to figure out what you really want in life.
sarah
April 16th, 2004 at 8:30 pm
Our good friend Syd said that your thirties can be compared to sushi. More specifically, the soft fatty underbelly of the tuna - Toro - usually very tasty and something to be savored.
Maggie
April 17th, 2004 at 8:12 am
Another May 6er, eh? Me too…will be turning 34 this year. Ariel, your Saturn return is waning now and up ahead is the increased credibility of your 30’s…and from the looks of it, you’ll do JUST fine.
Matt
April 17th, 2004 at 6:05 pm
My brother (40 on April 22nd) told me something I got to agree with when I hit 30 - a good deal of the bullshit stops. You stop being ‘weird’ and become ‘eccentric’ instead. Quite a lot of the pressure’s off for good. 30’s pretty decent. And I’ve still got my health (cue loud snap as break hip climbing up from computer). Matt
hillary
April 19th, 2004 at 5:10 pm
Hey we have the same bday! I’ll be 26. May you be blessed with a bounty of books.