I’m just a couple of months away from turning 30. This is becoming incredibly evident in my life lately, like how I’ve started using hand cream every night before bed. That is not a thing that twenty-something Kayla Aimee did. Twenty something KA was all “I got this one bottle of lotion that I put on my legs when I wear shorts.” And now I have all sorts of bottles of lotions for different things, like specifically for your hands, and I’m all “YOU REALLY DO MAKE MY HANDS FEEL LIKE SATIN! THIS IS AMAZING!”
Here are a few other recent examples that made me look a little closer at where I am falling on the timeline of my life:
– I said “Not in my day” to a kid in high school. Who says that? Old people, that’s who.
– I’ve started using eye cream. And not only that, I use an eye cream called TIMEWISE. The title of the eye cream is about getting old, y’all.
– Watching a 30-something Jonathan Taylor Thomas make a cameo on Last Man Standing was the highlight of my week. #jttforlife!
– My niece was in the car with me and I had Bush’s “Glycerine” playing. She piped up from the backseat with “Keeka? Can you turn on different music? This sounds like old people music.” And then I had this flashback to when I was a little girl and my dad would play a lot of Pink Floyd on the way to school and I would complain about having to listen to old people music. Also, my niece requested that I play “Party Rock.”
– While having a conversation with the young girl behind the counter at Starbucks, I quoted Full House. She stared at me blankly. “You know! Like from Full House?!” I said. “Oh, she replied, yeah that’s like, before my time.” CUT. IT. OUT. <- See what I did there?
– While painting pottery with Scarlette, the young girl working starts telling me about her upcoming wedding. She’s eighteen she tells me, as she asks how long I’ve been married. But then someone asks her if she has any children. “Oh no, she replies, but we want to get started right away because my fiance is twenty one and we’re not getting any younger.” THAT IS WHAT SHE SAID.
At first I was like:
But then I looked at that cute little girl and I said “Bless. Your. Heart.”
I did. I said that! I can’t believe I said that. It just fell out of my mouth like I’m one of those people who says that! I’m officially my grandmother.
