It’s the last week of me being 42 so I had to write a list about being 42.
- Nothing really changes.
- I wonder how people much younger than me have managed to acheive so much.
- Having to accept that I’m never going to be a spy/astronaut/ninja/pirate/robot.
- Losing weight isn’t as easy as it once was.
- BBC Radio One is not for me.
- I listen to BBC radio 4.
- Little things annoy me.
- Years don’t feel that long.
- My handwriting is still awful.
- Most of my clothes are over 10 years old, some are even 20.
- Bands I consider to be fairly new bands have all been going for more than 10 years.
- I was 30 twelve years ago.
- Teenagers think you are old.
- Many people my age have teenage kids.
- It’s harder to keep a willing suspension of disbelief when watching films and TV.
- I still feel like I am 16.
- Music doesn’t excite me like it once did.
- Some of the girls I went to school with are now grandparents.
- Being young at heart is better than being young.
- I have written an online blog in some form or another for 20 years.
- Realising that 21 is half my age.
- A lot of people expect you to act your age.
- I am still useless at spelling & maths.
- By 24 Kevin Smith had written and directed Clerks.
- I’m old enough to be Justin Bieber’s & Miley Cyrus’s dad.
- Things don’t impress me much.
- My diet hasn’t changed.
- I am older than Tom Hardy, Zachary Quinto, & Michael Fassbender.
- My short term memory is awful.
- When I was 30 I tried to make a mental effort to grow up.
- When I was 31 I realised that I was never really going to grow up.
- I still look 32.
- I’m going grey.
- Some of the guys I went to school with have gone bald.
- If I was an american I would old enough to be their president.
- When I was 36 I wrote 36 things about being thirty six
- In a row!?
- I have a mortgage, wife, and kids.
- I am always tired.
- I might be immortal.
- Things are always changing.
- I am the meaning of Life, The Universe, and Everything!