You look like a monkey...

OK- so tomorrow is my 40th birthday. I haven't really stopped to reflect on it- I think I am just too depressed by the idea that I really can't consider myself in-touch, hip, cool or with-it anymore. I really can't begin to squeeze into the category of 'young woman' as it now fits me about as well as motherhood fits Britney Spears. I am supposed to be all sorts of grown up and wise and well, old now. I'm not feeling that old- my eyes are fine, I have no major health issues and my back seems to still react alright to lifting a 45 lb. kid into bed. I'm also still fairly current- I mean, I just got an Iphone! But, still, there's the look you will get from a college student if you say "I'm 40" that will say it all.

But I was thinking on a T-shirt I saw (or something like that) that said "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?" It's not that deep or life-changing- just another way of saying that age is a number and old is a state of mind. I think I'd still be somewhere in my 30s- old enough to be seen as mature and yet not so old as to be discounted as out-of-touch. So, there it is. Fun fact about my birthday- it's a full moon rising in my favorite constellation, Orion- so its called the Hunter's moon. Also the Orioneid meteor showers are going on, but the aformentioned full moon and some much needed rain make those a little hard to see. Other fun fact- it's officially 2 months until Christmas. Start your engines!